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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 28, 2014 08:22 AM |
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| From: | Representative Marty Flynn |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Borough of Clarks Green 100th Anniversary Resolution |
| The Borough of Clarks Green will soon celebrate the 100th anniversary of its formation and I hope you will join me in honoring and congratulating the municipality’s officials and residents on this milestone by cosponsoring a resolution that I will soon introduce to mark the occasion. Clarks Green became a borough by the action of the Lackawanna County Court on May 5, 1914. The community has an interesting history, which the resolution will note. I wish to briefly share a bit of that history. Both Clarks Green and Clarks Summit, which are twin boroughs in Lackawanna County, are named for Deacon William A. Clark, an early settler. Clark served in the Continental Army, fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, served under General George Washington in the Battle of Trenton and at Valley Forge. As payment for his Continental Army services, Clark, who then lived in Connecticut, received a grant of 800 acres of land in northeastern Pennsylvania in what is now Lackawanna County, but what was then Luzerne County. Clark first visited the lands as a fur trapper in the early 1790s. He would later learn that the land granted to him had been part of an ownership dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut that developed into what’s known as the Yankee-Pennamite War, but had ultimately gotten resolved and settled, the conclusion of which led a Land Claim Office in Luzerne County to rule Clark’s claim as worthless. Clark ended up paying for a 200-acre parcel of land. Parts of those parcels of land became Clarks Green and Clarks Summit. Clarks Green as well as Clarks Summit were considered quiet little country villages content to remain part of South Abington Township until the construction of the then Northern Electric Street Railway around 1906. That development spurred both communities to grow considerably. Clarks Summit became a borough in 1911 and Clarks Green followed three years later. On the weekend of May 24 and 25, the borough has planned a centennial celebration. The resolution will congratulate the borough on its 100th anniversary, honoring it for its great history and recognize its residents that helped in organizing a centennial weekend. I hope you all will join in the effort to recognize the borough by cosponsoring and supporting the resolution. Thank you. |
Introduced as HR844