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The latter was onleave from the wilkesbarre city police force. Charles petrillo, the website recaps the 200 year history of harveys lake, the largest natural lake in pennsylvania, from its discovery in the early 1780s to the early 1980s when the lake still had a public character. Harveys lake pennsylvania sunset beach harveys lake. The pennsylvania game commission manages approximately 3,000 acres of. Book about history of harveys lake available online. Pittsburgh district website missions recreation lakes. Harvey was a member of the sons of liberty, an eminent colonialera group that fought against great. A frontier settlement in revolutionaryera pennsylvania that became a popular resort in victorian times until the 1960s. Harveys lake is a borough in luzerne county, pennsylvania, united states. The valuable resources included in family history books come from the following. Haunted roads of western pennsylvania haunted america cover image. In 1888 harveys lake and kunkle congregations were merged by the methodist conference with r.
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