Koonsville, Pennsylvania
Koonsville is a former American town that is now a section of Union Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.It is located approximately one mile outside Shickshinny, along Route 239 and McKendree Road.It served as a logging community until the Battle of Wyoming in 1778, when most of the white settlers fled their homes, fearing Iroquois raids.Several farmers and loggers returned a few years later to rebuild, including Shadrick Austin, who bought 256 acres (1.04 km2) of land and, in 1801, established the Austin Family Inn.Upon the establishment of the post office in 1850, the area was incorporated and renamed as Koonsville to honor William Koons, the town's first postmaster, who had moved to the area and occupied the Austin family inn that year.
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