CONCRETE CITY
Abandoned Housing Complex — Nanticoke, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Status: Abandoned · Access: Access unknown
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Abandoned experimental company housing of poured concrete.

Concrete City is a abandoned housing complex in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. Abandoned experimental company housing of poured concrete. A 1998 PHMC marker records twenty poured-concrete duplexes opened in 1913 for forty Truesdale Colliery employees. Glen Alden took control after 1921; the housing development was abandoned in 1924.

Concrete City is the housing the company couldn't demolish — the twenty poured-concrete duplexes the DL&W railroad built in 1911 as the 'Garden City of the Anthracite Region,' model homes for the Truesdale Colliery's chosen men, poured one house a day from flatcars and strong enough to outlast everything. The residents had to be English-speaking and high-ranked; the houses had no bathrooms.
Glen Alden took it over and walked away in 1924 — the concrete was too expensive to fix and too strong to bring down, so the company abandoned it standing. The dynamite the town tried later scarred it without removing it; the Garden City is a ruin of its own material, the experiment in worker housing that proved only the permanence of concrete.
The file keeps Concrete City: the poured duplexes, the chosen tenants, the 1924 abandonment, and the housing that refused to be demolished.
Concrete City is the archive's anthracite file — the model homes, the impossible demolition, and the ruin the company left.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Concrete City is the archive's anthracite file — the 1911 model housing, the abandonment, and the buildings that wouldn't fall.
Housing too strong to demolish keeps its walls — the file's suggestion being that Concrete City's hold is the durability: the experiment that outlasted its purpose, its owners, and the dynamite that was supposed to end it.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· A 1998 PHMC marker records twenty poured-concrete duplexes opened in 1913 for forty Truesdale Colliery employees. Glen Alden took control after 1921; the housing development was abandoned in 1924. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Concrete City Historical Marker' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Concrete City Historical Marker — HMdb transcription of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker
  https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=68698

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