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Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. 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.
Buck Hill's stone facade became a model for close to 300 stately stone-and-shingle homes in the region. Pocono Manor offered sweeping vistas of the eastern and western Pocono region and had been referred to as the "Grand Lady of the Mountains". Buck Hill closed in 1990 and the Inn at Pocono Manor was mostly destroyed by fire in 2019.
Website. buckhill.com. Buck Hill is a ski hill in Burnsville, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. It is one of three ski areas in the Twin Cities metropolitan area; the others are Afton Alps and Hyland Ski and Snowboard Area. Buck Hill opened in 1954 and offers ski, snowboard, and tubing trails. Artificial snow is often used to maintain ...
42-017-25112. Website. www .fallstwp .com. Falls Township is a suburban Philadelphia township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 34,300 at the 2010 census. Portions of Fairless Hills and Levittown, Pennsylvania, are located in the township.
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Bushkill Falls is a series of eight privately owned waterfalls, the tallest of which cascades over 100 feet (30 m), located in Lehman Township, Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains. Water of the Little Bush Kill and Pond Run Creek descends the mountain, toward the Delaware River , forming Bushkill Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Bridesmaid Falls ...
Jenkins's early career was at the Farm Journal, which had been founded by his uncle Wilmer Atkinson. [1] He was a member and president of the Buck Hill Falls Company for fifty years, and a member and president of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College for forty years. [1] Jenkins was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1944. [2]
High Falls State Park is a 1,050-acre (4.2 km 2) state park located near the city of Jackson in Monroe County, Georgia. It is the site of a prosperous 19th-century industrial center, which became a ghost town when it was bypassed by the railroad. The park contains the largest waterfall in middle Georgia and a 650-acre (2.6 km 2) lake.