Effective Immediately: Due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus, and Governor Wolf's ordered shutdown of all nonessential businesses in the Commonwealth to close, the Bishop Memorial Library and LCHS Museum as well as the Swetland Homestead and Nathan Denison House will now be closed to the public indefinitely.
NEW! Join LCHS staff, board members and volunteers for a quick six minute video tour of the 1790 Nathan Denison House, filmed by our friends at WVIA-TV!
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Our Locations
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Our Museum
Fascinating Exhibits!
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Denison House
1790 Home of Nathan Denison
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Swetland Homestead
Home to Generations of the Swetland Family
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Bishop Library
Research Family and Local History!
Founded in 1858
The Luzerne County Historical Society is Pennsylvania’s oldest county historical society. LCHS preserves and promotes the collective history and heritage of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, at the Bishop Library and the Museum in Wilkes-Barre, the Denison House in Forty Fort and the Swetland Homestead in Wyoming.
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objects, documents and published works associated with Luzerne County
From prehistoric Native American items
to letters from the Revolutionary War-era
to anthracite coal mining tools to
boxes and shopping bags from local department stores
News & Events
Let Freedom Ring, The Justice Bell Tour and the 1915 Suffrage Referendum
We make history relevant to our community
History is about all of us.
History offers important benefits to our society: building critical thinking skills; making us better citizens; teaching us creative problem solving; and creating heritage tourism and economic development.