Queen City Station

Queen City Station has served as a hub for special rail events including the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Train, the Veterans’ Memorial Day Excursion, the Ghost Train, and Santa’s Train. Leaders from Carbondale and Jessup worked with the Olyphant Business Association, the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority, Steamtown National Historic Site, the Lackawanna County Railroad Authority, and the business community to create events that draw attention to Olyphant’s Main Street corridor, celebrate special occasions, and increase awareness of the important role railroads played in the development of the Lackawanna Valley. In Olyphant and the Lackawanna Valley, churches as architectural museum pieces express ethnic diversity, reflecting the stories of the people who founded congregations and built them with limited resources. The Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority, the National Park Service, and local church leaders developed a walking tour of Olyphant’s architecturally and historically significant churches to preserve the region’s heritage for the next generation. A public-private partnership facilitated by the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority is converting the former Olyphant Elementary School into a forty-three-apartment complex for low-income elderly residents, preserving a regionally significant structure, preventing potential blight, meeting the demand for quality senior housing, and displaying artifacts that tell how immigrants were educated when they came to America. St. Michael the Archangel Church was founded in 1909 by Polish immigrants.

Olyphant, Pennsylvania · United States