PITTSTON  , a

city of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Susquehanna river just below the mouth of the Lackawanna, about 11 m . S.W. of Scranton and about 9 M . N.E. of Wilkes-Barre . Pop . (189o), 10,302; (1900), 12,556, of whom 3394 were foreign-horn; (1910 census), 16,267 . It is served by the Erie, the Lehigh Valley, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Central of New Jersey, the Delaware & Hudson, and the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley railways; there is an electric railway from Pittston to Scranton, and a belt-line electric railway connects Pittston with Avoca, Nanticoke, Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre . Two bridges connect the city with the borough of West Pittston (pop., ,91o, 6848) . Pittston is in the midst of the richest anthracite coal region of the state, and fire-clay also abounds in the vicinity . In 1905 the value of the factory products was $1,474,928 (47.8% more than in 1900) . Pittston, named in honour of William Pitt, earl of Chatham, was one of the five original towns founded in the Wyoming Valley by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut; it was first settled about 1770 and was incorporated as a borough in 1803 . It was chartered as a city in 1894 .