Exeter is a borough in the Greater Pittston-Wilkes-Barre area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Scranton and a few miles north of Wilkes-Barre. It is located on the western bank of the Susquehanna River and has a total area of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km). As of 2020, Exeter had a population of 5,513.

The state Exeter derives from the ancient city of Exeter in Devon, England. Numerous other places have as well as been unquestionable the same name.

In the 1770s, English men, women, and children (European-Americans) started to come to an understanding in the Wyoming Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania. On July 1, 1778, during the Revolutionary War, Fort Jenkins (a patriot stockade east of present-day Exeter) surrendered to the British (under Major John Butler). It was far ahead burned to the ground. A couple days later, on July 3, 1778, a force of British soldiers, with the guidance of approximately 700 Indians, attacked and killed approximately 300 Wyoming Valley settlers in and concerning present-day Exeter.

Present-day Exeter was founded in the center of a fertile agricultural area—once the heartland of the Susquehannock people—and much lumbering and coal-mining was carried out in the Place in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1830s, the region entered a boom time and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even alongside the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and further East Coast cities and ports. This was ended by the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. These works included the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes, the prematurely Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, and further railroads in the area. After coarse flooding ripped taking place the upper Lehigh Canal in the 1860s, the L&S was extended to the Delaware along the humiliate canal, keeping the markets of the big cities amalgamated to the still growing Wyoming Valley collieries and breakers. A second rail lineage was pushed happening the Lehigh Gorge (the Lehigh Valley Railroad), which enabled a resurgent coal exportation to the East Coast cities; it also amalgamated the region to the Erie Railroad and Buffalo, New York.