Albert Lewis, seeing the lumber industry declining, pivoted his business into ice. By 1880, Pennsylvania was the third largest producer of ice in America. Farmers needed ice to ship their products via rail lines to large urban areas.
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The Meadow Run Mountain Lake Park Association history begins with the settlement of Wilkes Barre and Bear Creek Township, and the businessmen who came here to build their fortunes. Initially General John Sullivan broke a trail from Easton, through Wilkes Barre, and on to New York state in 1779.
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Harry F. Goeringer
Harry Frederick Goeringer, July 6, 1894 — July 19, 1967 was a prominent Wilkes Barre realtor. In the 1930’s he purchased the former ice lake lands from George and Lilly A. Lewis Kilner Seneff, the daughter of Albert Lewis, for the purpose of developing the properties into summer cottages.
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Harry and Mary Goeringer deeded the lands of MRMLPA to their daughter, Eleanor Candalino, on January 3, 1949 and December 31, 1953. Eleanor had remarried to Charles Taylor and the couple moved to California. Thereafter lands were then sold to lake dwellers by Eleanor G. Taylor and Charles L. Taylor of Monterey, California, using the Power of Attorney given to her brother, Carl F. Goeringer.
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The Meadow Run Mountain Lake Park Association Historical Society
The Meadow Run-Mountain Lake Historical Society was formed in 2008 as a 501-C nonprofit corporation, organized under the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988.
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