Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania Borough of Mount Pocono Mount Pocono Lookout, looking east toward Delaware Water Gap.
Map of Mount Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylvania Location of Mount Pocono in Monroe County Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania is positioned in Pennsylvania Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania Location of Mount Pocono in Pennsylvania Mount Pocono is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
It is positioned nearly centered in the southernmost county of five in the northeast corner that are part of the Poconos Mountains region of the state.
The town of Mount Pocono is positioned at 41 7 23 N 75 21 34 W (41.123012, 75.359574), and is nearly centered in Monroe County the most southerly and centered county of the five counties including portions of the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Clear Run Elementary Center is an elementary school, grades k through 2 positioned in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania.
It was first opened in 1997 with the name of Pocono Mountain Elementary Center.
The school changed its name to Clear Run to better reflect their small-town surrounding with Clear Run Creek behind the school.
Clear Run originated with grades k through 6, but over the years it became k through 5, then ultimately split into two separate schools: Clear Run Elementary, grades k through 2 and Clear Run Intermediate, grades 3 to 6.
The school has over 800 students that attend grades k through 2 for "Pocono Mountain School District is the largest, most diverse school precinct in northeast Pennsylvania".
Clear Run for many years has had prosperous outcomes and statistics show that students that first enroll in Pocono Mountain Distinct usually graduate from it.
The Monroe County Transit Authority (MCTA) serves Monroe County with five bus routes.
The Authority's Blue Route serves Mount Pocono's Main Street (Pocono Blvd.) with northbound service to Tobyhanna, PA and southbound service to Tannersville, and the Stroud Mall.
Connections to other MCTA routes are provided at the Stroud Mall. Martz Trailways joins Mount Pocono with New York.
Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport is positioned two miles north of the borough.
The "New Mount Pocono" postal service was established in 1848.
The town's name was changed in 1864 to "Forks", because of its five-way intersection where Pennsylvania Route 611 and Pennsylvania Route 940 cross and Pennsylvania Route 196 begins.
Mount Pocono quickly advanced as a summer resort, advertising clean mountain air, spring water, luxury hotels and excellent fishing. The boom times lasted into the mid-20th century.
Mount Airy Casino Resort was assembled on the Mount Airy Lodge's lakeside site, and opened in 2007. Pocono Mountain House (1878, burned 1973), 250 guest rooms. Mount Airy Lodge (1898, closed 2001, demolished). At its peak in the 1960s, the hotel had 895 guest rooms.
Currently, Mount Pocono serves as the commercial center for the northern part of Monroe County.
Many businesses are members of the Mount Pocono Association (formerly, the Mount Pocono Business Association). Mount Pocono Station (1886, completed 1937), about 1905.
Mount Pocono Station, in 1991.
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Fred Courtright, the only Democrat who served on Mount Pocono Borough Council, has been appointed mayor by his GOP colleagues, filling the vacancy created by Republican Rich Dorkoski's resignation.
Mount Pocono Borough website "Many New Yorkers at Mount Pocono Trout being sought", The New York Times, June 15, 1902.
"The thrills are over at Mount Airy Lodge", The New York Times, October 31, 2001.
Mount Airy Casino Resort Pocono Haven from Card - Cow.
Mount Airy Lodge from Card - Cow.
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