Nanticoke

About Nanticoke

Nanticoke was settled around 1800, incorporated as a borough on January 31, 1874, and became a third-class city in 1926. It is named for the Nanticoke people, an Algonquian-speaking tribe whose name is often translated as tidewater people, some of whom resettled in the Wyoming Valley.

Anthracite made Nanticoke. The city grew into a busy mining community and passed 27,000 residents in the 1930s before the collapse of the coal industry pulled its population down.