CITY DIRECTORIES:

City directories typically include listings of businesses, individuals, and various organizations and services. Not being a very large town, Freeland has not always had its own city directories published, although there certainly have been some Freeland directories. Sometimes when Freeland was included in Hazleton directories, only its businesses and municipal matters were listed.

Still, in some directories there are lists of Freeland's inhabitants, and I've found at least one directory listing the inhabitants of South Heberton, which later became part of Freeland. A few of these early lists are given here.

If you're interested in businesses and occupations, please also check the "Businesses" link, as those lists of businesses also include information on the individuals who owned or ran them. Freelanders will find many familiar names in these lists, in addition to some that have been gone since before current memory.

A note about the lists: N, S, E, W after a street name refers to the part of the street, e.g., Main E is east Main St. An "h" or "w" refers to whether the address is a home or work address, or both. Occupations are listed, and widows are designated and the names of their deceased husbands are given. Typos might be my mistakes, or might be in the directory, so please report them to me and I'll fix them if they're due to my own careless typing. Thanks.

Individual listings for South Heberton from 1895 Barry's city directory
-- (South Heberton was later annexed to Freeland)

Individual listings from 1897 city directory

COUNTY HISTORIES:

Sources for a different kind of information about individuals are the early histories of Luzerne County.  Linked below are two pages containing biographical information about prominent people of Freeland found in two such histories.

Prominent people of the Freeland area in Munsell's History, 1880

Prominent people of the Freeland area in Bradsby's History, 1893