Editing Roseto, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Roseto, meaning "[[Rose garden]]" in [[Italian language|Italian]], is named for the village of [[Roseto Valfortore]]. Neighboring communities were settled primarily by those of German, English, and Welsh descent. The first Italian immigrants from Roseto Valfortore, Italy arrived in 1882 to work in the local slate quarries. The Wind Gap and Delaware Railroad opened a line through the town in 1883. It was operated by the [[Central Railroad of New Jersey]] until 1905, after which it was merged into the [[Lehigh and New England Railroad]], which abandoned the line in 1955. Roseto was incorporated as a borough in 1912.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bianco |first=Carla |title=The Two Rosetos |year=1974 |publisher=University of Indiana Press |location=Bloomington, Indiana |isbn=0-253-18992-6}}</ref>

Roseto and its inhabitants were the scene of a study by folklorist [[Carla Bianco]] in the early 1970s. She compared Roseto to the mountain town where its name and most of its original settlers had come from, [[Roseto Valfortore]] in the [[Apulia]] region of southern Italy.<ref>Bianco, Carla. 1974. ''The Two Rosetos.'' Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.</ref> Bianco calculated that "95 percent of its present 1,600 inhabitants are still descendants of Roseto Valfortore".<ref>Bianco, Carla. 1978. "Migration and urbanization of a traditional culture: An Italian experience." In Richard Dorson, ed., ''Folklore in the Modern World'', 55–63. The Hague: Mouton.</ref> A local doctor also noticed positive health rates in Roseto, leading to a study that identified the [[Roseto effect]] in public health.<ref>Grossman, Ron; Leroux, Charles (October 11, 1996). "A New 'Roseto Effect': 'People Are Nourished By Other People'". ''Chicago Tribune''. Roseto, Pa. Retrieved January 18, 2014.</ref>