Honesdale

Honesdale, borough (town), seat of Wayne county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., at the confluence of the Lackawaxen and Dyberry rivers, 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Scranton. Settled in the early 1800s, it was named for Philip Hone, who pioneered construction of the Delaware and Hudson Canal from Honesdale to Roundout (now Kingston, New York). From 1828 to 1898 as the western terminus of the canal, it was the major shipping point for coal carried from...