Little Known Facts

• Buck Hill Falls Company was founded in 1901.
• The resort was founded in 1901 as a Quaker retreat by Charles F. Jenkins.
• Automobiling was a sport in the 1900s.
• Early Buck Hillers stayed in tents on their lots.
• Original landscape was created by Frederick Olmstead the designer of Central Park.
• The Nature Club, established in 1903, conducted programs for children (before Camp Club.
• A golf professional from Scotland, David Guthrie, was engaged in 1909 and stayed through the 1939 season.
• In 1909 The Lot & Cot Owners Association was formed as a supplement to the Buck Hill Falls Company.
• The Buck Hill Breeze was first published on July 4, 1913.
• In 1918, Donald Ross, one of America's foremost architects, was employed to study the golf links and present a plan for increasing to 27 holes.
• In 1927, Buck Hill School, a progressive boarding school for girls and boys was built. It provided elementary and college preparatory education.
• Early residents took breakfast rides to Deer Lake on horseback.
• At the Buck Hill Falls Inn, in 1935, Rexford Tugwell, Stuart Taylor, and Eleanor Roosevelt conducted a conference on the future of housing and resettlement regarding the New Deal's Resettlement Administration.
• Sled dog derbies were held at Buck Hill Falls from 1932-1942.
• In 1945, tennis pro Bill Tilden's professional troupe played at Buck Hill Falls.
• In 1934, one of the first tow ropes in Pennsylvania was built at Buck Hill Falls for skiing.
• William (Bill) Hay of Amos & Andy fame was the Lawn Bowling announcer from 1960-1969.
• Walt Disney bowled in the Buck Hill Falls lawn bowling Open in 1964.
• Buck Hill Falls hosted the 1998 U.S. Championship Playdowns for lawn bowling.
• Buck Hill Falls hosted the 2001 U.S. Championships for lawn bowling
• In 2007 The Buck Hill Falls Golf Club celebrated its centennial anniversary.