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Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Honesdale's gravity railroad birthplace and the Pocono lake country - from Honesdale's distinction as the site where America's first steam locomotive operated commercially (the Stourbridge Lion made its first run on the gravity railroad between Honesdale and the coal mines of Carbondale on August 8, 1829 - the first commercial steam locomotive operation in the United States) to the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River's protected corridor, Lake Wallenpaupack's 5,700-acre recreation lake, and a northeastern Pennsylvania Pocono county of second homes, lake recreation, and extraordinary transportation heritage.

County Seat Honesdale
Population 52,000
Founded 1798
County Website waynecountypa.gov/commissioners
Wayne County, Pennsylvania
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Address 925 Court St, Honesdale, PA 18431
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