Lumber Mills at the Lake

Harvey's Lake's
Ghost Town

This map of the Outlet Mills area of Harvey's Lake shows the location of saw and planing mills in 1873.

The body of water is Harvey's Creek, which flows from the southwest corner of the lake. The mills are gone now, but remnants of them and the creek dam remain.

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The Alderson
Saw Mill

During his life-time Albert Lewis (1840-1923) was known as the Lumber King of the Wyoming Valley. The son of a lumberman Lewis timbered vast tracts along the Lehigh River then later at Bear Creek where his 1895 Tudor-style mansion still dominates the Bear Creek Lake dam scene. In the 1880s he also began an immense ice-harvesting industry in the Bear Creek region.

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