Hazleton: Anthracite Past, Latino Present
Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania. The population is approximately 29,000. The city was founded in 1818 and named for the hazel bushes that grew in the area. It was incorporated as a borough in 1856 and as a city in 1892. Hazleton rose to prominence as a coal mining center in the late nineteenth century, drawing waves of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and other parts of central and eastern Europe.
The collapse of anthracite mining through the mid-twentieth century led to decades of economic decline, with population shrinking from a peak of over 38,000 in 1940. Beginning in the late 1990s and accelerating in the 2000s, significant Latino immigration, particularly from the Dominican Republic, has reshaped Hazleton's demographics. The city is now more than half Hispanic or Latino, one of the most dramatic demographic shifts of any US city of comparable size in recent decades.
The CAN DO Industrial Park system, originally developed in the 1950s to bring replacement industries after the coal mines closed, has attracted warehousing, food processing (including Cargill and Amazon facilities), and light manufacturing. Interstate 81 passes just west of the city, providing direct connections to the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area to the north and the Lehigh Valley to the south.
Directory entries on Escortservice.com cover escort websites operating in Hazleton. As a directory-only service, Escortservice.com makes no arrangements between users and the websites it lists. A 21+ age gate applies to all users of the site.
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Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, in the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania. The population is approximately 29,000. The city was founded in 1818 and named for the hazel bushes that grew in the area. It was incorporated as a borough in 1856 and as a city in 1892. Hazleton rose to prominence as a coal mining center in the late nineteenth century, drawing waves of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and other parts of central and eastern Europe.
The collapse of anthracite mining through the mid-twentieth century led to decades of economic decline, with population shrinking from a peak of over 38,000 in 1940. Beginning in the late 1990s and accelerating in the 2000s, significant Latino immigration, particularly from the Dominican Republic, has reshaped Hazleton's demographics. The city is now more than half Hispanic or Latino, one of the most dramatic demographic shifts of any US city of comparable size in recent decades.
The CAN DO Industrial Park system, originally developed in the 1950s to bring replacement industries after the coal mines closed, has attracted warehousing, food processing (including Cargill and Amazon facilities), and light manufacturing. Interstate 81 passes just west of the city, providing direct connections to the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area to the north and the Lehigh Valley to the south.
Directory entries on Escortservice.com cover escort websites operating in Hazleton. As a directory-only service, Escortservice.com makes no arrangements between users and the websites it lists. A 21+ age gate applies to all users of the site.
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