Editing Scranton, Kansas (section)

==History==
Scranton was founded in 1871 as a [[coal town]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blackmar, Frank Wilson |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC |title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 |publisher=Standard Publishing Company |year=1912 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n641 657]}}</ref> It was named after [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kansas State Historical Society |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ |title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society |publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant |year=1916 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n363 256]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile for Scranton, Kansas |url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515082445/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5014 |archive-date=May 15, 2019 |access-date=22 June 2014 |publisher=[[ePodunk]]}}</ref>

The first post office in Scranton was established in September 1872.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:OS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009122858/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:OS |archive-date=October 9, 2013 |access-date=22 June 2014 |publisher=[[Kansas Historical Society]]}}</ref>

As of 1890, Scranton was reported to be one of many Kansas coal mining towns that were [[sundown town]]s, meaning that African Americans were not allowed to live there.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 30, 1890 |title=Letter From Kansas: A North Carolinian Notes the Political Drift in the Mining Towns of The Banner Republican State They Don't Allow a Negro to Live—Kansas Agriculture and Kansas People |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92072977/1890-09-30/ed-1/seq-1/ |work=[[Daily State Chronicle]] |location=[[Raleigh, North Carolina]] |page=1 |via=[[Chronicling America]]}}</ref>