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Visit these Local Landmarks and Attractions in the Lake Region Community.
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(Original) White Mills Firehouse
www.waynehistorypa.org/plid/190Route 6, While Mills This fire hall made from Dorflinger hand-fired bricks was erected in 1911 on land donated by Christian Dorflinger. Fred Houth, the master carpenter on the job, was paid $1.50 a day. In 1910 the White Mills Fire Department was orga ...
Dorflinger Glass Museum
www.dorflinger.org/glass_museum.htmlBeginning the 1860s, Christian Dorflinger transformed White Mills from a sleepy hamlet on the banks of the Lackawaxen River into a bustling industrial center. For more than half a century the Dorflinger Glass Works produced exquisite cut lead crystal that ...
Hawley Silk Mill
www.hawleysilkmill.comHawley Silk Mill This massive native blue stone structure located on Welwood Avenue in Hawley was built by Dexter, Lambert and Co. in 1880, and was originally known as the Bellemonte Silk Mill. Known as the largest bluestone building in the world, it was ...
Irving Cliff Star
Irving Cliff, 300 feet high, overlooks the town, and offers a compelling view of the confluence of the Lackawaxen River and Dyberry Creek. Irving Cliff is named after author Washington Irving, who was greatly impressed with its view. The cliff contains a ...
Old Stone Jail
www.waynehistorypa.org/exhibits/oldstonejail.phpThe Old Stone Jail has occupied an unobtrusive site along the banks of the Lackawaxen River at the eastern end of 10th Street. Built in 1859 at a cost of $16,000, this venerable stone building was not the first structure to house Wayne County's lawbreak ...
The Bandstand at Bingham Park
In 1932, the WPA (Works Progress Administration), constructed the bandstand and other structures in the park. They were all designed by C. G. Ellingsen of Hawley. The octagonal bandstand in the center of the park is forty feet across, with eight seven-sid ...
The Hawley Caboose
The caboose located next to the Hawley Library was used in the Gravity Railroad. The Gravity Railroad was built by the Pennsylvania Coal Co., and completed in 1850. A canal basin was built there and the shipping of coal and its attending industries playe ...
Wallenpaupack Lake Trail
wallenpaupacklaketrail.comThe trailhead starts at the parking lot just a few hundred meters south of the Route 6 & Route 507 interchange on 507. The trail runs north along the top of the PPL dike 3/10's of a mile and then past the new Lake Wallenpaupack Visitor Center, home of ...
Wangum Falls
Wangum Falls Road, off of the Owego Turnpike, is a great place to take a liesurely walk or drive. (Please respect private property and stay on the road). The road was a gravity railroad bed for the Pennsylvania Coal Company, for cars loaded with coal he ...
Wayne County Historical Society
www.waynehistorypa.orgThe Wayne County Historical Society was organized on May 26, 1917 and was incorporated in 1922. The purpose and objectives of the Society as stated in its by-laws are: •To collect and preserve historical records of persons, places and events in Wayne C ...