Bear Swamp

Bear Swamp is in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Bear Swamp is situated nearby to the hamlet Ricketts.

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Highlights include Ganoga Lake.

Lake

Ganoga Lake is a natural lake in Colley Township in southeastern Sullivan County in Pennsylvania, United States. Known as Robinson's Lake and Long Pond for most of the 19th century, the lake was purchased by the Ricketts family in the early 1850s and became part of R.

Nearby places include Ricketts.

Hamlet

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Ricketts is a ghost town that was established as a lumber mill company town in Sullivan and Wyoming counties, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Ricketts was built in 1890 along Mehoopany Creek in both Colley Township in Sullivan County and Forkston Township in Wyoming County for sawmills of the Trexler and Turrell Lumber Company.

Latitude

41.37243° or 41° 22′ 21″ north

Longitude

-76.32801° or 76° 19′ 41″ west

Elevation

2,283 feet (696 metres)

Open location code

87H59MCC+XQ

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

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