Greeley is a town in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately halfway between

Milford Milford may refer to: Place names Canada * Milford (Annapolis), Nova Scotia * Milford (Halifax), Nova Scotia * Milford, Ontario England * Milford, Derbyshire * Milford, Devon, a place in Devon * Milford on Sea, Hampshire * Milford, Shro ...

and

Hawley Hawley may refer to: * Hawley (surname) Titles * Baron Hawley * Hawley baronets Places named Hawley ;In Australia * Hawley Beach, Tasmania ;In the United Kingdom * Hawley, Hampshire * Hawley, Kent ;In the United States * Hawley, Colorado * ...

. Its population is 1322. Lake Greeley Camp is named after this town, and is situated on Lake Greeley. Greeley is a rural, heavily wooded section of Pike County, with no central town square. It is mostly established summer camp grounds and state game lands. Camp Shohola, Pine Forest Camp, Lake Greeley Camp, Camp Timber Tops, and Lake Owego Camp are popular summer camps for children and teens throughout the tri-state area. Camp Lee Mar, a camp in Greeley for children and young adults with special needs, has been in operation for over 60 years. The town is actually under the administrative control of the municipality of nearby

Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania Lackawaxen is an unincorporated community in Lackawaxen Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located at the confluence of the Delaware and Lackawaxen Rivers, the former of which forms the state line with New York. ...

, which lies at the convergence of the

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

and Lackawaxen rivers within the

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. Prolific western author Zane Grey began his writing career in Lackawaxen, relating stories of his experiences along the Upper Delaware River.

Namesake

Greeley is named for

Horace Greeley Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and newspaper editor, editor of the ''New-York Tribune''. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressm ...

(February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) founder of

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, considered to be the US's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s. Horace Greeley served a three-month term as a US Congressman, and was a founding member of the Liberal Republican Party. Horace Greeley was the Liberal Republican Party candidate for the

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The Sylvania Association

Horace Greeley had supported a rural commune known as the Sylvania Association, then located within the township's current boundaries. The commune, for which Horace Greeley served as Treasurer, had attempted to structure itself in accordance with the radical ideas of

Albert Brisbane Albert Brisbane (August 22, 1809 – May 1, 1890) was an American utopian socialist and is remembered as the chief popularizer of the theories of Charles Fourier in the United States. Brisbane was the author of several books, notably ''Social D ...

, who briefly studied

Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier (;; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in ...

and

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

. The association purchased 3200 acres from Mahlon Godley Sr. in 1842. They subsequently built a small saw mill, two small two-story houses, and a small barn. Only the foundation of the mill remains with some of the walls exceeding twenty feet in height. The old mill wall still stands alongside a stream that still flows through the township. It can still be seen near a historical state marker along what is now the junction of Routes 434 and 590. The association eventually failed because the members, unaccustomed to wilderness, failed to plant and harvest sufficient crops in 1845.

Greeley Today

Although Greeley remains a mostly rural, mountainous location between the somewhat more cosmopolitan towns of Hawley and Milford, Greeley attracts second home owners drawn to its scenic beauty and quiet lifestyle. Route 590, which runs through the town, is a popular route for motorcycle enthusiasts on their way from nearby

Lake Wallenpaupack Lake Wallenpaupack is a reservoir in Northeastern Pennsylvania. After Raystown Lake, it is the second-largest lake contained entirely in Pennsylvania. It comprises of shoreline, with a length of and a maximum depth of , and has a surface area in ...

to the

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, which lies just three miles down the road.

U.S. Route 6 U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to P ...

also runs through the Greeley. On July 1, 2013, the

Kahr Arms Kahr () is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Kahr, executive * Claudia Kahr (b 1955), Austrian judge * Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934), German politician See also

* KAHR, radio station * Kahr Arms, manufa ...

company announced that it was leaving New York state because of New York's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act (

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) of 2013. Kahr purchased 620 acres near Greeley in Blooming Grove Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, and said it would move its corporate staff after building offices in 2014 with plans to build a new factory by 2019. Beginning September 17, 2018, the company announced that all Kahr and Auto-Ordnance firearm repairs and product returns must be sent prepaid via UPS Air or FedEx Overnight to the company's new shipping address at: Kahr Firearms Group, 105 Kahr Avenue, Greeley, PA 18425.

References

External links

*http://www.pineforestcamp.com/ *http://www.leemar.com/ *http://sylvania.shohola.org/ *http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=23684 *https://web.archive.org/web/20120812041201/http://www.lackawaxen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=122 {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains