White Mills

WHITE MILLS, 38.3 m. (992 alt., 650 pop.), was an early transfer point for coal hauled overland from Carbondale (by sleigh in winter) to be rafted down Lackawaxen Creek and the Delaware River to Philadelphia. The difficulty of this course and the greater desirability of the New York market dictated the construction, in 1826, of a canal from Honesdale to the Hudson River (see below).

The RUINS OF THE DORFLINGER GLASS WORKS are at the southern edge of town. The plant, established in 1867, failed with the passing of an age when a family sideboard crowded with cut glass was indicative of respectability and substance.