Quicktown, Pennsylvania

Quicktown, Pennsylvania is a scenic rural community in Northeastern Pennsylvania approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of Scranton, more specifically in the eastern portion of Madison Township. (known to the locals as Madisonville). Madison Twp (Madisonville) formed on Aug. 7, 1849 from parts of Covington and Jefferson Townships and is named after President James Madison. Located on most printed maps about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) Northeast of Madisonville corners, Quicktown is centered at Quicktown Corners, the intersection of Quicktown Road and Rt. 690 in Madison Township. This intersection was previously known as Carey's Corners after the Carey family that lived near the intersection. The Carey family no longer resides in the area, but was still present up until at least 1930 according to that census.

Quicktown is named after the Quick family that lived in the area, but there are no records of Quicks that actually resided in Madison township in the census records other than Matilda Quick, a school teacher boarding with George Weldy in 1880. Rather the records show that the family and descendants of Daniel Thomas Quick (1824–1911) and Almira J Pedrick Quick living just across the county line in Hollisterville, part of Salem Township, Wayne County. Daniel came from Pike County near Milford and first appeared in Salem in the 1860 census. Daniel's son used the address of Hollisterville on his World War I draft registration.

History and Directory of Newton and Ransom Townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 1754 - 1912, compiled by J. B. Stephens, 1912 name the original settlers in what would become Madison Township as Thomas Biesecker and Richard Edwards both arriving in 1825. Horace Hollister names "John Besecker" (not Thomas) and Richard Edwards among the original settlers in Drinker's Beech in History of the Lackawanna Valley, (p. 288). Census records support Hollister's claim that it was John Biesecker and Richard Edwards. There is no census entry for any Thomas Biesecker in Luzerne County (before the formation of Lackawanna County), but John Biesecker is in Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton County in the 1820 census and in Covington in the 1830 census. However, neither of these original settlers lived in the area considered Quicktown.

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