Taylor [Paperback]

On November 23, 1893, Judge R. W. Archbald signed the decree making Taylor a borough. A century earlier in 1782, Cornelius Atherton, originally from Massachusetts, became Taylor???s first permanent settler on a hill overlooking Keyser Creek. He and his family helped to build what was then a small farming community. The birth of the railroad brought with it a change of industry. In the mid-1850s, the Union Coal Company sank a shaft, built a breaker, and began to ship coal. When the company went out of business, New York City financier Moses Taylor bought up the abandoned coal land and reopened the mines. What was once called Unionville was renamed Taylorville in his honor, and this was later shortened to Taylor. Through vintage images, Taylor documents the many transitions of this tight-knit community.Title: Scranton author, Margo L Azzarelli talks about 'Taylor' and 'Green Ridge'

Author: Marnie Azzarelli

Publisher: Examiner

Date: 6/13/2011





???Taylor??? is available for purchase at the ???Lackawanna Historical Society,??? the ???Anthracite Heritage Museum,??? and the ???Taylor Community Library.???



It is also available to loan at the Albright Memorial Library located in downtown Scranton.



To Margo L Azzarelli, history is not just facts strewn out on a page, only to be read by bored students in class. To her it???s a mystery waiting to be solved: ???I love to learn new things,??? Ms. Azzarelli said. ???Researching is my favorite part. I find it exciting to put the puzzle pieces of our past together.???



In August, it will be a year since the release of her first ???Images of America??? book: ???Taylor,??? a successful hit selling almost a thousand copies. ???Taylor,??? is a look at the first white settlement in Lackawanna County through a collection of images, painstakingly picked out by the author herself. ???That was the hardest part,??? Ms. Azzarelli says. ???At first it wlӛ