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05-30-2007, 04:13 PM
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City Boy in The 'Burbs
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"Sigh...back in Reston."
(set 2 days ago)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Reston, VA ---> Pittsburgh, PA (Hopefully in 2010)
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Montrose Photo Tour
Good afternoon, everyone! 
After finishing up my photo tour this morning of Binghamton, NY (See the New York forum for that one if you'd like), I decided to stop on the way home to visit Montrose, the quaint Victorian seat of Susquehanna County. Situated ten miles to the west of I-81 via the New Milford exit and roughly 40 minutes from either Binghamton or Scranton via I-81, the town is just isolated enough so that it doesn't attract any sort of ugly urban sprawl and retains its small-town charm. The town hosts an annual blueberry festival and is quite similar to many quaint New England villages that you might expect to find in Vermont instead of NEPA. I'll keep my narration to a minimum here to allow you to be fully-engrossed in the pictures, as I was today. After leaving a city riddled with urban blight, it was nice to stroll around a town where people waved and pre-emptively greeted you as you passed by. There was also a plethora of rather good-looking shirtless guys running amok through town, but I'll leave photos of them to my dreams to spare you the misery! LOL! 
Welcome to Montrose, the quaint seat of Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains.
Susquehanna County Courthouse
Downtown Montrose
Montrose Theater
Rosemont Inn Bed & Breakfast
Magistrate's Office
Susquehanna County Historical Society & Library
Montrose Post Office, 18801
Montrose Fire Station
Gazebo in the Town Green
Country Club, Foreground
Montrose Area High School, Background
Lake Avenue
Pine Street
Chenango & Pine
WW II Memorial
Church Street
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05-30-2007, 04:55 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New Holland, PA (20 minutes from lancaster)
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i like those pics of montrose and especially that Pine St. pic.
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05-31-2007, 03:08 PM
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What wonderful pics! Thanks so much!
My family is looking to relocate from FL in the next 2 years, and this just made me homesick! I am from Johnson City, NY originally, and had family in Montrose, Dushore, and the like....it's been a long time, but you just brought some of it back to me...
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07-06-2007, 09:52 AM
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This is great... i went to high school in Montrose.. and you somehow managed to capture all of the highlights.
Let me know when you do Brackney!!
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07-06-2007, 09:55 AM
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babysitter here!~
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Tunkhannock
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We went through Montrose on the 4th and they were having a big parade!
We needed to get to 706 East and we ended up following the parade!!!
It is a great little town.
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07-28-2007, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Montrose, PA
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wonderful photos, puts me at ease as i'm relocating to montrose next month. thanks a bunch for these.
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08-06-2007, 08:44 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: South Carolina
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How absolutely wonderful are your pictures!!! I have visited Montrose twice now, but each trip has been so rushed with never more than a couple of hours to spend . We are residents of SC. I took my 90 year old mother up there in '03 (she passed away a few months later in '03) to Montrose to see if we could locate the home where she was born. We visited the Historical Society, and if you have not met Betty Smith, you must. She is a very special lady and was such a tremendous help to us with genealogical records. We visited the cemetery where we found many of the headstones of our ancestors. I hope to get up there this next year and actually stay a day or two. The Rosemont Inn Bed & Breakfast that you snapped a photo of looks very inviting. Thanks so much for sharing the wonderful pictures!!!!
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12-07-2008, 01:17 PM
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These are great pictures! I was born outside Montrose and went to school there-moved away shortly after that. It's nice seeing places that I remember as a kid.
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12-07-2008, 06:00 PM
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Location: Saylorsburg, PA
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Had I known you were going through Montrose I would've asked you to stop by my friends airport and see how it's doing since I haven't been up there in a while. It's located right on Rt. 29 southbound just outside of Montrose. The airport is named Husky Haven Airport but for a little over 40 years it was known as Zavertons. The owner was Elmer Zaverton. They sold it to my friend so they could retire. They still live nearby.
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08-04-2009, 08:38 PM
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Thanks for the wonderful pictures of Lake Ave. My parents house is included in the photos and I love "showing off" my town to friends!!!
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