Welcome Home to the
Endless Mountains Heritage Region!

       Our four counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna and Wyoming, span 2,821 square miles. These counties encompass scenic and historic treasures. Outdoor recreation opportunities range from 'ruggedly challenging' to 'a walk in the park.' Unique festivals and events offer activities and competitions with a local twist from quilt shows to lumberjack competitions and snowmobile races.
       While today's visitors and residents are attracted by the region's remarkable glacier-etched beauty, they aren't the first to appreciate it. Glaciers almost seem to linger in Sullivan County's narrow Appalachian 'hollows,' ice caves and mountaintop bogs. Rugged alpine-like mountains sport rich ecosystems teeming with unusual biodiversity. Throughout the region deep pools in spring-fed mountain creeks provide cover for native trout.
       Rocky ledges hide some of the region's other best-kept secrets. Evidence of the Endless Mountain's earliest tourists turns up in isolated rock shelters. Later people wore paths through the region seeking game or trade. Roadside signs mark places where these paths cross or became today's roads.
       People who plied the Susquehanna River settled along its banks to become farmers. Its broad valleys in Bradford County were known as the "breadbasket of the Indians". In the spring when wild leeks were ready to gather, chestnut trees bloomed so vigorously mountainsides appeared snow covered.
       By the mid 1700's Europeans were exploring the region. Topping one ridge after another they saw mountains stretching to the horizon and dubbed them endless. Conflict between early settlers and the people already here reached a pinnacle in 1778 with the Wyoming Massacre. Sullivan's March swept through the region in 1779 and settlement by Europeans began in earnest afterward.
       Many place names throughout the region reflect the languages of its first people. "Wyoming" means "extensive meadows," an apt name for a county of rolling hills and broad valleys.

EMHR supports PA Route 6 Heritage Corporation effort organizing the "Pennsylvania Route 6 Round-Up" a clean-up of Rt. 6 across the state on Saturday, May 3, 2008.

Organizations, clubs and individuals can learn more here:
Pennsylvania Route 6 Round-Up

And register to help here:
Pennsylvania Route 6 Round-Up Registration
This event has sponsoring affiliation with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and Keep America Beautiful.


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Endless Mountains
Heritage Region
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       The history of the Endless Mountains is interpreted in many small, local museums, some focused on a particular story. French Azilum in Bradford County tells the story of refugees who fled the French Revolution in 1793. The P.P. Bliss Museum provides a glimpse into the lives of several nineteenth century gospel songwriters from Bradford County.
        Historical research being conducted by the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies in Susquehanna County is revealing a multi-layered regional story of Underground Rail Road activity.

       Today, the land shaped by centuries of farming and timbering retains the energy of people who called this region home. Indians, fur traders, French expatriates, New England immigrants, abolitionists, farmers, artisans, lumberjacks, industrial entrepreneurs and the Civilian Conservation Corps all played key parts in the compelling story of the Endless Mountains. Their footsteps echo in its high places, fertile valleys, river banks and along remnants of canals and railroads.
       The Endless Mountains Heritage Region is one of the last strongholds of what we view as quintessential America. Country lanes still meander through family farms, past white clapboard churches with tall steeples touching the sky, connecting nineteenth century crossroads villages. The chestnut trees may be long gone, but our spring hillsides blush with wild cherry blossoms and delicate wildflowers. Summer fields are lush with corn and hay. Fall colors are among the most vibrant in the United States. Winter whispers to cross-country skiers passing through our through snow frosted hemlock forests.

Endless Mountains Heritage Region...                                      Where America comes home.

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