Hazelton
a city in Luzerne co., Pa., on the Pennsylvania, the Wilkes- Barre and Hazelton, and the Lehigh Valley railroads; 115 miles N. W. of Philadelphia. It is the center of the Lehigh anthracite coal region, with 40 mines in the vicinity. Besides its coal mining and shipping interests, the city has railroad shops, iron works, and extensive manufactures of flax, brooms, silk, macaroni, chewing gum, and coffins.
It is the seat of the Miners' State hospital; has electric lights and street railways, public high school, Hazelton Seminary, daily and weekly newspapers, and 2 National banks. Pop. (1910) 25,452; (1920) 32,267.