 The original title to the land that became Colton Point State Park was sold to the Wilhelm Wilkins Company in 1792.Pine Creek was declared a public highway by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on March 16, 1798, and rafts of spars were floated down the creek to the Susquehanna River, then to the Chesapeake Bay and the shipbuilders at Baltimore.The lumbermen would then walk home, following the old Pine Creek Path at the end of their journey.