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The eponymous falls, as depicted in the 1949 Negro Motorist Green Book. Buck Hill Falls is a private resort community in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.. The settlement was founded in 1901 as a Quaker retreat by a group of Friends from Philadelphia, including Charles F. Jenkins who became and remained the president of the Buck Hill Falls Company until his death in 1951.
[24] Buck Hill's stone facade became a model for close to 300 stately stone-and-shingle homes in the region. [23] Pocono Manor offered sweeping vistas of the eastern and western Pocono region and had been referred to as the "Grand Lady of the Mountains". [25] Buck Hill closed in 1990 and the Inn at Pocono Manor was mostly destroyed by fire in 2019.
Roughly all of Sheep Hole Road and parts of Headquarters, Geigel Hill, Red Hill, Tabor and Bunker Hill Roads 40°28′31″N 75°08′29″W / 40.475278°N 75.141389°W / 40.475278; -75.141389 ( Ridge Valley Rural Historic
Inn At Pocono Manor, May 2015 The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort. Two of the earliest Pocono resorts, founded by rival factions of the Philadelphia Quaker community, were located in Monroe County: Inn at Buck Hill Falls (1901) and Pocono Manor (1902). [41] [42] [43] These resorts did not allow liquor or dancing, and evening dress was discouraged. [44]
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The Mill Race Inn at 183 Buck Road June 3, 2024. It has been a blighted property since at least 2013, when Northampton Township issued a report on its deteriorated condition.
Buck Hill was named by early settlers, who noticed its summit was a gathering spot for Mdewakanton Dakota to watch male deer (bucks) drink at Crystal Lake. [3]The ski area was started by Chuck Stone, who discovered the sport as a child recovering from polio, and had worked as a lift attendant at Suicide Six in Vermont.
He was a member and president of the Buck Hill Falls Company for fifty years, and a member and president of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College for forty years. [1] Jenkins was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1944. [2]