 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 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.