Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania
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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.
The Inn at Buck Hill Falls, originally a small wooden hostelry, expanded ultimately to a large new stone building in 1926 and enjoyed popularity into the 1970s and 1980s. However, changes in ownership, financial troubles, and several fires, led to the closing of the Inn in the early 1990s.
On 1935-06-30 Rexford Tugwell and Eleanor Roosevelt conducted conferenced on the future of housing and resettlement at Buck Hill Falls. Stuart Taylor also attended. "You cannot just build houses and tell people to go and live in them. They must be taught how to live," said Mrs. Roosevelt.[1]
There is still a very active community of both summer and year-round residents, many of whom come for a summer retreat from New York City or Philadelphia. Many families have been coming to Buck Hill for generations. The community still has the amenities of its past as a popular Quaker resort, including a 27-hole Donald Ross--designed golf course, 10 tennis courts, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. The nearby villages of Mountainhome and Canadensis provide places to shop.
Buck Hill Falls is known for its natural beauty including its namesake waterfall, the annual Buck Hill Art Association Art Show, one of the premier cultural events in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the Foxhowe Association, which sponsors lectures and oversees the Friends meeting for worship in the summer. The Buck Hill Lawn Bowling Association has also hosted National Finals several times. Also, the Buck Hill Conservation Foundation is very actively buying easements, and maintaining expansive trails throughout the 4,600 acres (19 km²) of forest surrounding the settlement.
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- ^ Shlaes, Amity [2007] (2007). The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, 1st edn, New York, New York: HarperCollins, 256. ISBN 0-06-621170-0. “A community does not consist of houses alone.”
