Warrior Run School District history

Anna Blackman died in early 1828 and was buried on the "Green" among many of the other township's early settlers.

On November 13, 1833, residents of Hanover Township were frightened by numerous falling stars seen through the night.

The winter of 1835-6 brought the deepest snow anyone in Hanover Township could remember.

In 1864, the Warrior Run Mining Company was organized, reopening the old Holland and Hillman mine.

Beginning in 1867, he laid out streets and lots on the Plumb orchard/farm.

The Chestnut Street section of the borough was known as Music Hill since about 1880 because of a story circulated that everybody on the hill had some kind of a musical instrument.

In 1881 he erected the three-story Pearson Building which was located on the lot now occupied by the Nitkowski residence.

First organized in the school house on Chestnut Street in February 1885, it has since disappeared.

David R. Evans' ice house was built near here in 1887.

Their large, three-story home, located adjacent to the store and back from the street, was built about 1890.

The south side of the street was forever changed on August 30, 1892, when a great fire destroyed seven buildings, including the homes of Charles Wagner and Thomas Stinson, the hotel of Patrick McGonigle, and the home and store of Adam Ace.

The first game was played there in 1893, with Warrior Run defeating the combined Askam-Hanover teams, 24-3.

Newspaper editorials in 1894-95 from the Wilkes-Barre Record revealed the borough was a rough place, as these "headline" excerpts show:

In 1900, the mine workers of Warrior Run were organized into a labor union known as the United Mine Workers of America, and two years later took part in what was to be the longest strike yet in history.

When the 1902 mine strike shut down most of the valley, unemployed young men of Warrior Run formed one of the area's leading baseball teams, the Warrior Run Indians.

O'BOYLE John, 44, mine laborer, & Ellen, 44; on Boyle, 1910

ZUK George, 26, hotelkeeper, & Mary, 24; from Poland, 1914; on Front; later Orchard

Since 1917 it had been housed in the Borough Building on Front Street.

JAMES William, 33 & Mary, 32; on Beaumont, 1920

On April 7, 1925, the Warrior Run Legion Post was organized through the efforts of First Lieutenant Edward Brown.

RICHARDS Edward "Soup" & Margaret; on Beaumont, 1930

KETTRICK William, & Helen; on Beaumont, 1935

MAYCOCK Edwin & Frances; on Front, 1940

In November 1949, the Warrior Run Fire Relief Association purchased its first new fire engine.

Up from Plumb's was where Adam and Josephine Ptokowski later operated a wholesale liquor business and then a general merchandise store, and where Lewis Levanbook had his dry goods store until 1954.

The people of Warrior Run experienced this first hand in October 1960 when the handsome presidential candidate, Jack Kennedy, and his wife Jackie rode through the town during a campaign visit to the Valley.