18770912 The Scranton Republican, Wed · Page 3 Col 2 - Mr W R Jones

            TWO HOURS UP TOBY'S CREEK. ATTRACTIONS FOR SCRANTONIANS. 

Many tourists are familiar with Wyoming Valley yet few know of the retired places but a mile or two from its border, full of beauty and sometimes unique attractions. Up the famous Toby's creek, in Kingston township, four miles from Wilkes-Barre court house, and fifteen from Scranton in, a wooded gorge in the mountain range, such a place is found and was visited yesterday by one of our reporters. The main road leading from Kingston to Dallas, and vexed by a single toll-gate, ascends this stream through a defile shaded by majestic hemlock and maple, quiet as when Teedyuscung smoked his calumet upon its banks more than a century ago. Few limbs have been severed and fewer smitten by thunder storms. A large single dwelling, the Forest House, owned by W. R. Jones, formerly Steward of the Lackawanna Hospital, is reached while yet in the woods. The steep mountain opening but little for the creek and roadway, rises here a thousand feet with its sides covered with trees glowing in the rich light of a September sun. From the summit, Scranton, Dunmore, Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth and the entire Wyoming Valley, rendered cheerful by its noiseless river, forms a pleasing picture to the eye. Half an hour from the house which next year will be called Ice Cave Hotel, at the suggestion of Prof. Pancost, Superintendent Halstead and Dr. Throop, is a cavern where ice is found all summer is an ICE CAVE. 

Teedyuscung (c. 1700–1763) was known as "King of the Delawares". He worked to establish a permanent Lenape (Delaware) home in eastern Pennsylvania in the Lehigh, Susquehanna, and Delaware River valleys. Teedyuscung participated in the Treaty of Easton, which resulted in the surrender of Lenape claims to all lands in Pennsylvania. Following the treaty, the Lenape were forced to live under the control of the Iroquois in the Wyoming Valley near modern-day Wilkes- Barre. Teedyuscung was murdered by arsonists in the night of April 19, 1763. This marked the beginning of the end of the Lenape presence in Pennsylvania. Teedyuscung's son Chief Bull conducted a raid on the Wyoming Valley that was part of a greater Indian uprising. As a result, the Lenape were forced to move west of the Appalachian Mountains by the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

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