Editing Kingston, Pennsylvania (section)

===Incorporation===
The community has a rich history in American education. It is said that the first [[State school|public school]] in Pennsylvania was erected in Kingston (in the 1770s).<ref name="pagenweb.org">{{Cite web | url=http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/patk/kingston.htm |title = Kingston, Luzerne Co., Pa}}</ref> The borough is also home to the Upper School of [[Wyoming Seminary]], a prestigious [[college preparatory school]] founded in 1844. During the first year, it enrolled 31 students (17 boys and 14 girls). Today, Wyoming Seminary's historic campus hosts roughly 450 students.

Kingston witnessed a population boom after the construction and operation of the [[Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad]]. It was incorporated as a borough on November 23, 1857. The borough is named after [[Kingston, Rhode Island]].<ref name="kingstonpa.org"/> The first election for the community was held on December 15, 1857. Ruben Jones was elected [[Burgess (title)|burgess]] and [[justice of the peace]]. Some of the first [[town council|council members]] elected included Bestor Payne, Marshall G. Whitney, Reuben Marcy, Thomas Pringle, and Richard Hutching.<ref name="pagenweb.org"/>

In 1923, the [[Kingston Armory]] was built. On September 11, 1950, 33 guardsmen from the [[109th Field Artillery Regiment (United States)|109th Field Artillery Regiment]] were killed in a train accident near [[Coshocton, Ohio]]. In the following days, the dead were moved to the Kingston Armory, where the remains were relinquished to the grief-stricken families.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/homefront/p_troop_train.htm |title = Korean War Educator: Home Front - Troop Train Tragedy}}</ref>

Coal mining was a chief industry in and around Kingston prior to the [[Knox Mine Disaster]]. The 1959 tragedy essentially shut down the mining industry in and around the borough.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/det.4a07285/ |title = Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa|year = 1900}}</ref> In June 1972, Kingston was devastated by the flooding of [[Hurricane Agnes]]. The hurricane wreaked havoc on Kingston and neighboring Wilkes-Barre, causing a state of emergency. The natural disaster earned national attention and a visit from [[U.S. President|President]] [[Richard Nixon]], who recruited Wyoming Seminary graduate [[Frank Carlucci]] (a Nixon administration official in the [[Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]]) as a point man to oversee flood recovery efforts. After the flood, Kingston adopted a [[home rule]] charter. It became effective in January 1976.
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