Pocono Mountain Postcards Hotels Resorts Boarding Homes Inns

[close] Postcard images capture the transformation of the Pocono Mountains from secluded wilderness to vacation destination.

With the arrival of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, numerous stations throughout the Pocono region served those temporarily fleeing the confines of city life. A multitude of boarding homes, hotels, inns and resorts provided travelers with a wide variety of accommodations and activities.

This work is a representation of the author's 10 year endeavor to collect postcards depicting the Pocono Mountains. The images illustrate how the area's tourism industry developed.

Readers are destined to enjoy a journey through time while rediscovering treasured memories from a bygone era.

Journey Along
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
A Pictorial History of Pocono Mountain
Boarding Homes, Hotels, Inns & Resorts
from the Delaware Water Gap
to Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania
ALAN SWEENEY

ISBN:9780979504501
6" x 9", paperback
340 pp
2007

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