Editing Back Mountain (section)

==History==
[[File:Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania (63532).jpg|thumb|left|[[Postcard]] of Harveys Lake and the Back Mountain (early 20th century)]]
[[File:Warden Place, Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania (75648).jpg|thumb|left|Postcard of Harveys Lake (early 20th century)]]
The townships of Dallas, Franklin, Jackson, Kingston, Lake, and Lehman were formed in the 1800s. The area now known as Dallas was first settled in 1797. It was incorporated as a borough on April 21, 1879, from a section of Dallas Township.<ref name="books.google.com">[[Henry C. Bradsby|Bradsby, Henry C.]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=4BkVAAAAYAAJ History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1893]</ref>  The township, formed in 1817,<ref name="books.google.com" /> and was named for [[Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)|Alexander J. Dallas]], the 6th [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] and the father of [[George M. Dallas]] the vice president of [[James Polk]]. The Borough of Dallas is known as the “Pride” of the Back Mountain.

The second borough in the Back Mountain region is Harveys Lake. The lake was named after Benjamin Harvey, who discovered the [[Harveys Lake (Pennsylvania)|lake]] in 1781. He was a member of the [[Sons of Liberty]], an eminent colonial-era group opposed to [[Great Britain]]'s [[Stamp Act]] and a driving force behind the [[American Revolution]]. The first resident in the vicinity of the lake, Matthew Scouten, arrived in the early 1790s, others settlers, the Worthingtons, arrived in 1806.

Historically the area offered many forms of recreation and entertainment attracting tourists from all over the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]]. Harveys Lake became a major resort destination in the early 20th century. [[Hotels]], [[boathouses]], a [[casino]], and an [[amusement park]] were constructed around Harveys Lake. Grand Hotel Oneonta was especially prominent in the early 1900s, and former [[United States President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] visited the hotel in August 1912.<ref name = "backmountain">{{Citation|author = Harrison Wick|publisher = Arcadia Publishing|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lQy3U1_PissC&pg=PA118|title = Pennsylvania's Back Mountain|pages = 116&ndash;119|year = 2009|isbn = 9780738562780}}</ref> Harveys Lake was incorporated as a borough in 1968.

[[Frances Slocum State Park]] is the only [[List of Pennsylvania state parks|state park]] in the Back Mountain. In 1968, the lake, which is the centerpiece of the park, was built to control [[flood]]ing in the [[North Branch Susquehanna River]]. In 1972, the park became a temporary home to 280 families who were displaced by the [[Hurricane Agnes|Agnes]] floods. The park was closed temporarily to the public and reopened in 1974 after all the families were relocated.