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Historic Sites

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Olver House

Beech Grove Road Historic Preservation Award given in 1997 to Georgene &…

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Parish House of St. John's Episcopal Church

Hamlin The Parish House of St. John's Hamlin. once the Wimmers railroad…

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Pennsylvania Coal Company Paymaster's House

Hawley - Standing between Bingham Park in Hawley and the banks of the…

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Perkins-Wonnacott House

Belmont & South Streets, Waymart This house sits on land first deeded to…

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PPL's Hydroelectric Dam

Lake Wallenpaupack This concrete dam near Tafton was built by Pennsylvania…

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Richard Henwood House

Parkway Drive. Honesdale Richard Henwood purchased land from Armory…

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Richard Simons Farm

Route 191. Sterling Township Richard Simons was born in Ireland and came to…

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Rutledgedale Post Office - William J. Loy's Residence

41 Galilee Road, Damascus Township About 1897 William J. Loy built the…

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Samuel Dimmick Building

Honesdale The first house on this corner of Court and Ninth Streets was a…

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About us   

Welcome to the Wayne County Historical Society, home of the full-size replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on commercial track in the United States.

Our main museum and museum shop are housed in a building built in 1860 as headquarters of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company....click here for more information.

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Calendar
Calendar of Events at Wayne County Historical Society
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News
News the Wayne County Historical Society

Historic Sites

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The Seelyville Chapel
John T. Ball, a Presbyterian elder from Honesdale, organized a Sunday…
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The Old Stone Jail
Tenth Street - The earliest jail in Honesdale was a wooden, four-celled…

Research Library

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Genealogy in Wayne County
Genealogical records WCHS Research Library at 810 Main Street, Honesdale…
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Historic Topics
Research materials at the WCHS Research Library, your best source for the…

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