May 30th, 2021 … Summer of Fun continues!

Drove to Tunkhannock, pronounced tuhng · ka · nuhk, to scope out the route and location of the Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) Bluegrass Festival. We booked this festival in December of 2020 and have been waiting for it to arrive! Driving we discovered the Endless Mountains of Northeast Pennsylvania’s Wyoming County. They offer breathtaking views, winding, winding roads and a few vineyards!

Thomas Huckell brought his family to the Forks of Loyalsock Creek in 1797. He purchased 400-acres of land on both sides of Loyalsock Creek at the Forks. He only lived one year after he arrived and his widow surrendered the part of the tract which lies on the side of the creek now occupied by the business part of Forksville.

A portion of the land, owned by widow Huckell, one hundred and forty acres to be exact, was purchased by Samuel Rogers Sr. in 1802. His sons, Samuel, William and Jonathan, then started a woolen factory. By the War of 1812, this woolen mill in the wilderness was doing steady amount of work providing good quality private and military clothing and employing local people. Unfortunately a major flood took everything totally away except the dye kettle, which was found about a mile down the creek. The kettle now sits in front of the Sullivan County Historical Society’s Museum in Laporte. Samuel Rogers Sr. had ten children and it was his youngest, Moses, born in 1806 who carried on in the area and laid out the village of Forksville in 1854. He dies in 1879 having watched the little town begin to prosper. Forksville has over time held a saw mill, a grist mill, motels, wagon masters, blacksmiths, ice house, upholstery shop, barbershop, hardware store, garages, doctor’s office, harness shop, cobbler shop, hat shop, many residences and the woolen mill.

There is something about pulling of the road to let cars in more of a hurry than you to pass. As you let them zip by, you spot a deer on the edge of a stream. She knows you are there, but does not car. She lives such a simple life … not in a hurry to go anywhere, just enjoying each day. Oh, life is good!

Welcome to Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, home to Proctor & Gamble’s largest manufacturing site in the United States and not much else. There is not even a grocery store, but there is four churches!

The Mehoopany Paper Plant produces Bounty Paper Towels, Bounty Napkins, Charmin Toilet Paper and Pampers and Luvs diapers. The Procter & Gamble factory in Mehoopany, has long been a key fixture of the rural community. Generations of families have worked there. It employs about 2,200 people. Situated on the Susquehanna River, at more than l,000 acres P&G's Mehoopany complex is the company's largest manufacturing plant of its 60 or so worldwide.

 

We found this beautiful building, a new looking sign, but the yard and the driveway make it look abandoned. We tried to do some research on the web, but no luck.

  

We love seeing so much nature! Mama and fawn looking to cross the road safely ... Mama made it, but the fawn ended up going back into the woods on the side from which they came!

Rain is scheduled to arrive again, time to get back to the RV!

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