Editing Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania

{{short description|Borough in Pennsylvania, US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
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| established_title  = Settled
| established_date   = 1877
| established_title2 = Incorporated (borough)
| established_date2  = 1899
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| leader_title       = Lord Mayor
| leader_name        = Kevin Lynch
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| elevation_footnotes = <ref>[http://www.city-data.com/city/Eagles-Mere-Pennsylvania.html Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania (PA) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| population_total   = 148
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{{URL|https://www.visithistoriceaglesmere.com}}
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'''Eagles Mere''' is a [[List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania|borough]] in [[Sullivan County, Pennsylvania]], United States. The population was 151 at the 2020 census.<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021">{{cite web |title=City and Town Population Totals: 2020—2021 |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-cities-and-towns.html |website=Census.gov |publisher=US Census Bureau |access-date=August 6, 2022}}</ref>

==History==
Eagles Mere was laid out in 1877 and incorporated in 1899.<ref>[http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Sullivan_County/Eagles_Mere_Borough.html Eagles Mere Borough, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (PA) 17731<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The [[Eagles Mere Historic District]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1996.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> Eagles Mere's name literally means "the eagle's lake", the word ''[[Mere (lake)|mere]]'' being a poetic synonym of "lake".<ref>{{cite book|last=Espenshade|first=Abraham Howry|title=Pennsylvania Place Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012934249&view=1up&seq=311|year=1925|publisher=Evangelical Press|isbn=978-0-8063-0416-8|page=308}}</ref>

[[Civil engineer]] Embley S. Chase came in 1886 to oversee its development as a resort town and laid the ground work. He participated in establishing its street plan, water sports carnival, ice toboggan slide, and trail system. He helped organize the borough, design its water and sewer works, electrify it, and plot the bottom of the lake. He helped design the [[narrow gauge railroad]] that once connected it to Sonestown.

Among the five large resort hotels serving the area from the 1880s to 1940s was the Forest Inn, opened in 1902. Its guests included [[General George C. Marshall]] and [[theater director]] [[Alvina Krause]].  
Lucy McCammon (a faculty member at nearby [[Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania|Bloomsburg State]]) and Miss Krause (her longtime companion) leased the Inn's Eagles Mere Playhouse in 1945 and ran it for twenty years; it featured performers such as [[Patricia Neal]], Jimmy Gheen, [[Charlton Heston]], [[Jennifer Jones]], [[Paula Prentiss]], and [[Richard Benjamin]].
That troupe is gone, but in 1993 the David A. Dewire Community Center was the site of a nationally recognized summer drama workshop.<ref>{{cite thesis
  <!-- |author-link=Robert J. Wise, Jr. --> |first=Robert J. |last=Wise, Jr.
  |title=Facade Easements: A Preservation Alternative for Historic Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania
  |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania]] |year=1993  |access-date=2013-12-04
  |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/359 |type=MSc}}
</ref><ref>
  {{cite web |date=December 15, 2004 |title=Ms. Alvina Krause |first=James |last=Goode
    |access-date=2013-12-02 |url=http://library.bloomu.edu/Archives/SC/BTE/alvinakrause.htm
    |publisher=[[Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania]]}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the borough has a total area of {{convert|2.2|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|2.0|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.2|sqmi|km2}}  (8.44%) is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|align=left
|1900= 312
|1910= 184
|1920= 172
|1930= 212
|1940= 175
|1950= 157
|1960= 138
|1970= 157
|1980= 164
|1990= 123
|2000= 153
|2010= 120
|2020= 151
|estyear=2021
|estimate=152
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2020-2021"/>
|footnote=Sources:<ref name="USDecennialCensus">{{cite web|title=Census of Population and Housing|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=11 December 2013}}</ref><ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref><ref name=CensusPopEst>{{cite web|title=Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012.html|work=Population Estimates|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=11 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611010502/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2012/SUB-EST2012.html|archive-date=11 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:42&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=Oct 12, 2022}}</ref>
}}
At the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]],<ref name="GR8">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2011-05-14 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> there were 120 people, 62 households, and 41 families residing in the borough. The population density was {{convert|60|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people&nbsp;|people}}. There were 382 housing units at an average density of {{convert|191|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units|}}. The racial makeup of the borough was 99.2% White and 0.8% Asian. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population.

Of the 62 households, 8.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.7% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.9% were non-families. 33.9% of households were one person, and 17.7% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 1.94 and the average family size was 2.34.

In the borough the population was spread out, with 7.5% under the age of 18, 51.7% from 18 to 64, and 40.8% 65 or older. The median age was 63.3 years.

The median household income was $40,833 and the median family income was $63,750. Males had a median income of $36,250 versus $17,813 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $29,052. None of the families and 3.1% of the population were living below the [[poverty line]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{commons category-inline|Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania}}

{{Sullivan County, Pennsylvania}}

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[[Category:Boroughs in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:1899 establishments in Pennsylvania]]