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Factoryville Borough

Name: Council Meeting
Start: 2024-05-08
End: 2024-05-08
Location: Borough Building

Factoryville’s beginning can be traced to two local families; the Reynolds and Capwells.

The first settlers arrived around 1800. It was not until 1828 when a post office was established that the town was officially named. In 1824, the first school was built. In 1869, Keystone Academy was founded. The Baptist and Methodist Churches were built between 1850 and 1860.

Factoryville is located in the scenic Endless Mountain Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Our borough got the name Factoryville from a factory that operated along the S. Branch of the Tunkhannock Creek in the 1820’s. People came from miles around to have their wool woven into cloth at that factory. Only a few years after the wool factory opened it was closed down never to open again. There is a conspicuous lack of factories in present day Factoryville but the name remains.

Christy Mathewson, one of the all-time great pitchers in major league baseball, was born in Factoryville in 1880. Christopher “Christy” Mathewson, better know as “Matty” or “Big Six” became a member of the New York Giants team in 1900 and retired from baseball in 1922. Christy Mathewson died in 1925 at the age of 45. He was one of the first five baseball players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, fourteen years after his death. Christy graduated from Keystone Academy and Bucknell University and played for the New York Giants from 1901 to 1916. His accomplishment in baseball was outstanding, helping to make baseball the national pastime. And he served overseas during World War I. Christy’s contributions to baseball and to pitching continue to be recognized including in 2005 when the New York Daily News named him the “Greatest pitcher who ever lived”. Each year we honor his birthday with a week-end celebration.

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