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Exeter is a borough in the Greater Pittston-Wilkes-Barre area of the center-west Wyoming Valley region in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, about west of Scranton and a few miles northwest of Wilkes-Barre on the opposite shore of the main Susquehanna River fork. The borough was founded in the middle of a fertile agricultural area—once the heartlands of the Susquehannock Amerindian peoples—and much lumbering and coal-mining was carried out in the area from early in the 19th century. In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other East Coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area. After severe flooding ripped up the upper Lehigh Canal in the 1860s, the L&S was extended to the Delaware along the lower canal, keeping the big cities' markets connected to the still growing Wyoming Valley collieries and breakers. A second rail line was pushed up the Lehigh Gorge, the Lehigh Valley Railroad enabling a resurgent coal exportation to the East Coast cities and connecting the region to the Erie Railroad and Buffalo, New York. By 1900, the population consisted of 1,948 persons; in 1910, 3,537 persons; and in 1940, 5,802 persons. The town lost usable lands in 1959 in the Knox Mine Disaster, when the river broke into the roof of sub-river anthracite mines and, in one moment, all but killed the local anthracite mining industry. Subsequently, despite the local loss of industry, the fact that the population was 5,652 at the 2010 census indicates that the former Indian and farmlands have been attractive to building developers. ==Geography== Exeter is located along the right and west bank of the main branch Susquehanna River at (41.325530, -75.819353), and hosts the important Wyoming Valley connecting highway U.S. Route 11 siting between West Pittston and West Wyoming athwart the highway. The majority of its streets are arrayed to either side of the highway, as is true of most of the neighboring communities, there are many secondary streets that parallel both the highway and so the river bank and rising uplands away from the Wyoming Valley basin floor and flat bottomlands. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , of which is land and , or 6.52%, is water. It lies on the west side of the Susquehanna River and has two distinct islands: Wintermoot and Scovell. It also has a number of smaller islands, some of which were 'grown' by efforts to dump rock and soil to plug up the mine roof breakthroughs, as had been done, for example, in many tunnel projects under the Thames in London, and other Victorian river tunnels. The Army Corp of Engineers, however, concluded corking a tunnel with one level floor limit and a host of interconnected mine shafts and galleries at many different levels were two very different problems only superficially related. Its zip code is 18643, shared with West Pittston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Exeter, Pennsylvania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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