Shavertown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kingston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the city of Wilkes-Barre and 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Scranton. The population of the CDP was 2,019 at the 2010 census.

Shavertown is named for an ahead of time settler, Philip Shaver. In 1813, Philip purchased the land that would higher become Shavertown from William Trucks, the namesake of Trucksville. That same year, Philip sold the northwest ration of his house to John McClellon. This land would be known as McClellonsville, a little village which was well ahead named Dallas. By 1818, Philip yet owned nearly one thousand acres of home in the Back Mountain region.

Philip Shaver was born in 1762 along the Danube River Valley in Vienna, Austria. He migrated to the United States amid 1765-1769 like his parents and brothers. Philip Shaver married Mary Ann Wickizer at St. James Lutheran Church (in Greenwich, Warren County, New Jersey, on December 12, 1786). They had 7 children: John Philip, Peter, William G., Elizabeth, James Henry, George, and Asa W. Shaver. Around 1804, Philip and his associates arrived in Forty Fort, where they resided until 1810. Philip came to the “Back of the Mountain” in search of a enormous species of legendary evergreen trees. He was irritated to carve out a lane from a rugged foot trail and along with heavily forested lands, now Route 309. Philip and his sons build up a sawmill in 1815. This first mill was on the north branch of Toby Creek and located near the Prince of Peace Church upon Main Street in Dallas. Philip cut the wood for the first Market Street Bridge in Wilkes-Barre (in 1820).

It is said that after years of watching children labor on farms, Philip wished that the farm girls and boys should learn to open and write. In 1816, he donated the estate for the first school in the Back Mountain. The hypothetical was a one-room log cabin upon the site of the current Back Mountain Memorial Library upon Huntsville Road. Philip also allocate lands for a public burying ground “on the hill near the pine grove just south of Dallas Village, on the road to Huntsville.” Philip with designated a Plan of estate for his family’s graves, visible from Overbrook Road. In November 1826, Philip died after a fatal accident. His left hand was crushed in the cider press that he and his sons were operating. Philip was goaded to amputate his own hand and died of blood poisoning a few days later on November 7, 1826. A relative, Bayard Taylor Shaver of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, told of finding that same cider press on a visit to the Shaver farm in 1876. Philip’s headstone rests at the terminate of the Shaver Cemetery. Inscribed on his footstone reads a testament to Philip’s huge travels: “Here lies my tired feet.”