Peckville, Pennsylvania

Peckville is a village in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, roughly northwest of Scranton. The governing borough of Peckville is Blakely.
Peckville was named for Samuel Peck, who moved to northeastern Pennsylvania from Massachusetts in 1831, and built a saw and grist mill at the site of the current village. His son John D. Peck was a bank president in Peckville. In the early 1900s, Peckville had a weekly newspaper, The Peckville Journal, a public school, and the Peckville National Bank.