Our time in the Poconos

Hello everyone, well I have a little catching up to do. The Poconos were a hit, except for the lack of internet we enjoyed our time here immensly. We drove every back road they have in the area and found so many interesting spots.

We spent time at the genealogy center in Peckville(Blakely) and the library in Jessup, however we did not find much, the fellow(Joe) at the historical center said people back then did not care, and most things were just discarded, also anything from the very poorest, like the Irish immigrants was just not wanted. Got some good stories and we did find William Caddens naturalization papers.

The picture below is the valley that they lived in some 160 years ago.

Scranton is just 10 miles from the Blakely area and we went in to visit the Anthracite Museum.

Our first stop was at the Iron Furnaces, they were making iron here in the early 1800's.

Downtown Scranton

The Antracite Coal Museum was wonderful, they did a very good job of telling the history of all the immigrants that came from Europe to the valley to work in the coal mines under such poor conditions.

Here is a picture of the entrance to our park, we were 10 miles back from much civilization but it was quiet and pretty.


Another day we went back to Scranton to Steamtown, Ron was in his glory, but I have to admit it was quite interesting. We had a guided tour through the roundhouse, where they were rebuilding a steam locomotive.

When I went to go to the truck, I found this little fellow holding onto the car for dear life, I thought it was cute but one of the rangers came and shooed him away.

About 20 miles away is the town of Nicholson, now CP Rail has bought up alot of the railway around this area and they actually operate this viaduct now.

Looking up was kinda awesome.

So this morning we moved 180 miles to the bottom of Pennsylvannia just west of York. From here we will visit Gettysburg, Hershey(yummy) and Lancaster county where the Amish live.

Our park is okay but the freeway is just out our door, coming from the hills we will have to adjust.