History
Lemon Township sits up on the northern end of the Endless Mountain range of Northern Wyoming County. The township overlooks the Northern End of Lake Carey, know classic hand build vacation cabins and a steam boat that used to entertain vacationers from Binghamton, NY up north and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA down south.
You’ll also find lots of farms, including Brown Hill Farms, known for their photogenic Sunflower and Tulip fields in the later summer and fall seasons.
1898 / Glass Plate / F. C. Shook / Daniels Collection
Walter Broughton’s 2008 book on Lake Carey, also available through Arcadia Publishing, relates that in 1904 Redington, “an experienced manager of tourist attractions” opened a picnic grounds on the west shore of the lake, to compete with an existing park.
Redington formed the Lake Carey Land and Improvement Company and the Lake Carey Boat Company. His park “appears to have been an immediate success,” Broughton wrote. “An optimistic Redington and his fellow investors purchased Fern Cliffe Hotel on the opposite side of the lake in 1904.”
Redington’s Lake Carey park flourished and the Lehigh Valley Railroad (which owned the picnic grounds at Harveys Lake that would later become Hanson’s Amusement Park) ran “almost daily summer excursions to the grounds,” Broughton wrote. Attractions included a Ferris wheel, picnicking, boat rentals, dancing in the pavilion, and, of course, rides around the lake on the Rosalind.