Pocono Mountains

View from Mount Pocono

The Pocono Mountains , also known as Poconos for short , are located in the northeast of the US state of Pennsylvania . The natural limit of the range is the Delaware River to the east and the Lehigh River to the west. Around 340,300 people live in the area, and the number is growing rapidly. The mountains are between 430 and 550 meters high and consist mostly of hard sandstone. There are flattened plateaus and hilly areas that are mostly heavily forested. The mountain range has many natural and man-made lakes and is used as a tourist destination. In the winter, it is a well-known ski area in Pennsylvania.

history

The area was originally populated by Iroquois, Shawnee , Minisink, Lenape and Paupack Indians. In 1659 the first Dutch Europeans settled in this area. William Penn's son Thomas appropriates Indian land through the Walking Purchase treaty. He presented an unsigned document from 1686. The deed gave Penn as much land as a man can walk around in a day and a half without further defining the route. On September 19, 1737, Edward Marshall, Solomon Jennings and James Yeates, the colony's fastest runners, began their run and ran all day and night without a break. Two of the three runners gave up, exhausted, but the third covered a distance of 113 km in a day and a half. More English and German settlers joined them around 1742. The army under General John Sullivan first undertook an expedition to this area in 1779. During the Second World War , many soldiers and their wives came to the area to spend their honeymoon , as it is not far from New York City , New Jersey or Philadelphia . In 1945 the first hotel was opened especially for newly married couples. From this time the area developed into a tourist magnet.

Famous pepole

• James Wilson : Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
• Robert Morris : Entrepreneur, American Revolution financier, and friend of George Washington
• Lyman Lemnitzer : US Army General
• Fethullah Gülen : Spiritual head of the Islamic Gülen movement

literature

• Lawrence Squeri: Better in the Poconos: The Story of Pennsylvania's Vacationland. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 2002, ISBN 978-0-271-02850-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 14, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of the Poconos. Retrieved September 14, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Activities in winter. Retrieved September 14, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} History about Poconos. Retrieved September 14, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 41 ° 15 ′  N , 75 ° 15 ′  W