Lake Carey

by Broughton, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780738555188
• ISBN10: 0738555185
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-23
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub

Summary

Lake Carey is a summer community of several hundred families in the Endless Mountains of northeast Pennsylvania. Lake Carey's story begins in 1874, when the narrow-gauge Montrose Railroad began service to the 262-acre glacial lake named Marcy's Pond. Cottages with gingerbread porches sprang up almost overnight; hotels, steamboats, and picnic groves swiftly followed. As World War I drew near, the renamed lake and its community were a fixture on the regional map. Their resort status was short-lived, however, as the changing American family and the advent of the automobile began an inexorable transformation. First to go were the crowded steamboats and excursion trains. A new, quieter era began, dominated by rental cottages and--at Lake Carey--regattas. Through vintage photographs, Lake Carey documents how the people who gathered here retained their strong sense of community born of the shared privilege of a place at the lake and the pleasures of summer pastimes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
Promoting Marcy's Pond	p. 11
America's Most Popular Summer Resort	p. 35
The Camps of Lake Carey	p. 53
A Commodious Cottage at the Lake	p. 69
Cottage Life	p. 95
Bibliography	p. 127
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