FREELAND, a borough of Luzerne county, Pa., U.S.A., 3om. S. of Wilkes-Barre, on Broad mountain, at an altitude of nearly 2,000f t. It is served by the Lehigh Valley and electric railways. The population was 6,666 in 1920, and was 7.098 in 1930 by the Federal census. The mining of anthracite is the dominant occupa tion. There are large foundries and machine shops, and factories making silk, bobbins, overalls, shirts, cigars and Names. Freeland was settled about 1842, and was incorporated in 1876. It is the seat of the Mining and Mechanical institute of the anthracite region (chartered 1894), founded and endowed by Eckley B. Coxe, the first coal operator in this region, and modelled after the German Steigerschulen.