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is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the Susquehanna River opposite Wilkes Barre. Kingston was incorporated as a borough in 1858. It is part of the greater metropolitan area of the city of Wilkes-Barre. In 1900: 3,846 people lived here; in 1910: 6,449; and in 1940: 20,679 people lived here. The population was 13,855 at the 2000 census.
Near Kingston stood Forty Fort, prominent in the Yankee-Pennamite War and in the Revolution. In the vicinity of this fort occurred, in 1778, the famous Wyoming Massacre, in which Tories and Indians massacred Connecticut settlers.