Had a great Jeep trip this past Saturday with friends and family. Took off about 1 pm and didn't get home till around 8pm after a few cool stops along the way. We drove through the heart of Sullivan County over some old loggin roads, past cool ponds that I remember fishing at when I was a kiddo. We went to High Knob and stopped for a late lunch at High Knob Inn, then off to the Forksville Covered Bridge and General Store and finally topped it off with a stop at Antler Ridge Winery. Here are a few interesting facts about the Covered Bridge and General Store in Forksville.
The Forksville Covered Bridge was built in 1850 by a man named Sadler Rogers. Spanning the Loyalsock Creek at 156 feet, this bridge is continually maintained and is still in use to this day.
Forksville, Pennsylvania is one of the
two oldest towns in Sullivan County.
From 1810 to 1816 Forksville
flourished, but the flood of 1816
almost wiped out the settlement. At
the time of its census of 1900 there
were 152 residents and the town had
two general stores, a drug store,
furniture / undertaking, jewelry store,
blacksmith shop, barber shop, hotel,
two doctors and a grist mill. Forksville
was also the birth place of legendary
football player, Red Grange; a.k.a
"The Galloping Ghost".
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