Peckville, Pennsylvania

Peckville is a village in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, roughly 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Scranton.

The governing borough of Peckville is Blakely.

[1] Peckville was named for Samuel Peck, who moved to northeastern Pennsylvania from Massachusetts in 1831, and built a saw and grist mill at the site of the current village.

His son John D. Peck was a bank president in Peckville.

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