Tannersville is a village in
Pocono Township, Pennsylvania
Pocono Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The township's government is located in the village of Tannersville, Pennsylvania, Tannersville, Pennsylvania, near the site of Camelback Mountain Resort, wh ...
. It is the site of the
Camelback Mountain Resort
Camelback Mountain Resort is a ski and snowboard resort located in the Tannersville, Pennsylvania in the Pocono Mountains.
Opened in December 1963, Camelback is the largest ski resort in the Poconos. In the 1950s, when developers were worki ...
, a popular ski and waterpark resort in
The Poconos. Elevation is . As of 2000, the population of Tannersville (
ZIP Code 18372) was 2,784. The community is served by the 629 exchange in
area code 570
Area codes 570 and 272 are telephone area codes serving the northeast quadrant of Pennsylvania, including the cities/towns of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg, Pittston, Carbondale, Hazleton, Clarks Summit, ...
.
Tannersville was founded in approximately 1750 by Jason Wohlers, formerly of
Philadelphia. Tannersville, according to one historian, was first called Pocono Point. Many native American trails were later widened for stagecoach use, and later evolved into highways. Two of the most famous of these are Lackawanna Trail (now
Rt. 611) through Tannersville and Sullivan's Trail. Learned's Tavern (which most recently was under the name The 1740 Alpine Inn, and which burned down in 2000, was established along the Lackawanna Trail, and in 1779, was the last building on the frontier. On 18 June 1779, General
John Sullivan and
his soldiers camped at the Learn's or Learned's Tavern. They then cut a road (now Sullivan's Trail) through the wilderness. Tannersville also consists of The Crossings Premium Outlets, a tourist attraction.
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Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
Pocono Mountains