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==History== The [[Carbondale Historical Society and Museum]] records and maintains the city's history. The [[Carbondale City Hall and Courthouse]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> The [[Delaware and Hudson Canal Gravity Railroad Shops]] have been demolished, but were once listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris"/> The [[Carbondale mine fire]] began in Carbondale in 1946.<ref>{{Citation|author1=Ann G. Kim |author2=Thomas R. Justin |author3=John F. Miller |url = https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/UserFiles/works/pdfs/ri9421.pdf|title = Mine Fire Diagnostics Applied to the Carbondale, PA Mine Fire Site|access-date = June 1, 2014}}</ref> Every census since 1940 has seen a steady decline in the population of Carbondale, mostly attributed to the end of the coal industry in the area. ===Notable firsts=== * 1829: the [[Delaware and Hudson Gravity Railroad]] from Carbondale to Honesdale began operations on October 9, 1829. This was the first commercially successful railroad to operate in America.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} * 1833: the first Saint Patrick's Day parade in what is now Lackawanna County is held in Carbondale, as stated in the ''Scranton Times-Tribune'': "It comes as no surprise that the Irish people of Carbondale would want to celebrate the patron saint of their homeland. ... The Feb. 28, 1833, issue of the Northern Pennsylvanian, the first newspaper published in Carbondale, contained a notice to “Hibernians” of a public meeting to be held ... ‘for the purpose of taking measures to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.’ ... The Carbondale parade is the first one mentioned in any history of the region that is now Lackawanna County."<ref>The Sunday Times, 6 March 2011, "Scranton's Green Party," Page P3, Scranton</ref> * 1850: the first [[eisteddfod]] (a Welsh musical and literary festival) in America was held in Carbondale on Christmas Day, 1850. Among the authors and musicians who attended were Daniel Davies, the Rev. John Moses, Thomas Eynon, the Rev. Thomas J. Phillips, and Edward Jones. These were the pioneer attendees of America.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} * 1851: Carbondale was incorporated as a city in [[Luzerne County]] on March 15, 1851,<ref>{{cite book|last=Hollister|first=Horace|title=History of the Lackawanna Valley|url=https://archive.org/details/historylackawan00hollgoog|year=1885|publisher=Lippincott|page=[https://archive.org/details/historylackawan00hollgoog/page/n436 488]}}</ref> making it the oldest city (the "Pioneer" city) in what later became [[Lackawanna County]], and the fourth oldest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania * 1853: the first lodge in America of the ancient Welsh [[Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites]] was opened in Carbondale in the fall of 1853; the first public Ivorite celebration in America took place in Carbondale in August 1855, when a procession and other public exercises took place, under the direction of Thomas Voyle, Esquire, chief marshal, and Edward Roberts, Esquire.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
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