The Anthracite Aristocracy Takes to the Mountains
Posted by Kurt Topfer on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Anthracite Aristocracy Takes to the Mountains Hidden high in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania – about a dozen miles north of Hazleton and less than half that distance south of Wilkes-Barre – lies a small late nineteenth century retreat known to very few. Developed by coal barons and the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company in 1882, the hamlet’s fifty distinctive “summer cottages,” with equally distinctive...read more