Views: 1,023 Introduction In the mid-19th century, the Pocono Plateau was still a rugged wilderness, characterized by dense forests, hidden lakes, and scattered clearings carved out by lumbermen’s axes. It was here that Isaac Stauffer, born in 1834 near Wind… Read More »Meet The King of the Poconos- Isaac Stauffer
Views: 1,105 From the outset, Lutherland was promoted not only as a summer retreat but as a year-round destination for religious conferences, youth programs, and leisure activities, a place that blended the mission of Christian fellowship with the amenities of… Read More »Lutherland – Once the Poconos Wonderland Retreat
Views: 1,086 Many of us forget that the automobile didn’t really start gaining a presence until the 1920s, so getting around was either by rail or horse-drawn carriage. So if you were coming from Philadelphia or New York City to… Read More »1892 – Getting to the Poconos – Taking The Train
Views: 1,675 While my parents caught wind of Lake Naomi in 1963, Logan Boone Steele of Summit, New Jersey, had a vision and became one of the first developers of the modern era in the Pocono Pines area of the… Read More »Retrospective: Lake Naomi, Pocono Pines and The Logan Steele Era 1963- 1986
Views: 3,077 As America surged through the transformative decades of the Gilded Age, from the 1870s through the early 1900s, the tranquil forests and mirrored lakes of Tompkinsville and Tobyhanna emerged from obscurity to become a sought-after escape for the… Read More »Pocono Pines and Early Lake Naomi -The Gilded Age (1870s-1963)