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Photo, courtesy of Township Resident, Journalist, and Author of "Field Notes" Pat Camuso, who caught this Palomino Trout in the Lackawaxen River this Spring using a Thomas Lures' Colorado Spoon.

The famous American Western Novel Author Zane Grey also lived in this town, wrote many of his books here, and fished here. He later broke world records for game fish in salt water after moving to the West coast.

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Revolutionary War Battle of Minisink Unknown Soldier Memorial Site on Scenic Drive. Each year, a memorial service is held at this site and at the battlefield site located on the other side of the river.
 

Nearby on Scenic Drive is the Zane Grey Museum and the Roebling Aqueduct, built by John Augustus Roebling, who designed  the Roebling Aqueduct and the Brooklyn Bridge, two great engineering breakthroughs of the 19th century.


Glacial Rock with Flowers at Township Building. A glacier covered the Poconos and this area specifically during the Ice Age.

The entire County is covered with rocks and other evidences that a glacier deposited much material as it receded, according to a Penn State hydro-geologist.
 

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Lackawaxen Township Comprehensive Plan:
Inspired by Our Past/Planning For Our Future
Roebling Bridge and Aqueduct, one of the historic structures in town.
Our Bridge to the Future
Pennsylvania mandates that municipalities periodically update their Comprehensive Plan. Such a plan helps us define what our township will be like in the next 10 to 20 years. The Plan helps us manage growth in an orderly way. We are doing this plan now because of all the changes caused by growth in our township, which has become one of the fastest growing and most popular destinations in the state.

Lackawaxen Township Supervisors have jointly applied for state and county grants with Shohola Township Supervisors to  develop each individual municipal Comprehensive Plan. The Lackawaxen Plan is tailored to our own Township needs, while the Shohola Plan relates to just Shohola needs.

Pennsylvania encourages municipalities to develop multi-municipal initiatives by giving grant incentives for such initiatives. Currently eight of 13 Pike municipalities are also taking advantage of this window of opportunity by doing joint plans. And, Pike County is providing us their resources and professional technicians to help us develop this plan effectively.

Why are we doing this joint Plan. The joint Plan offsets the cost of doing such a plan alone. It helps our bottom line and gives wider range of professional expertise than if we developed a stand-alone plan. It is a win-win strategy that we could not overlook.

The Multi-municipal Comprehensive Plan meetings, such as the last one that was scheduled at Shohola Township Building on Twin Lakes Road in late August, were held by the Comprehensive Plan Citizens Advisory Commission. These meetings helped us gather citizen input as we forge Lackawaxen Township's future. The Plan is being designed by a professional consulting firm specializing in Pennsylvania municipal plans.

Lackawaxen Township Supervisors appreciate your help in working with our team. Citizen input helps us complete the plan.

  Lackawaxen Township Prepares for the Future: New Township Building Proposal:
Bringing the Community Together
 

 
Lackawaxen Township proposes investing in a new facility that will replace the current outmoded and deteriorating township building at the same site on Township Road, off Route 590. The new building will be in two parts, one part has an administrative center, offices for staff, and public meeting rooms, the other part would house the garage. The building would be would  be energy-efficient and cost-effective. It would meet our current and future needs. The building would house the township staff and service offices, community meeting area, garage, and vehicle maintenance area. For more information, click the following link:
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After the Comprehensive Plan is completed, Lackawaxen Supervisors will fine-tune our ordinances to support and realize the Comprehensive Plan vision. Your input is a critical part in helping us to define that vision. For further information about the Plan, call Lackawaxen at (570) 685-7288 or Shohola at (570) 559-7394.For more information, click the following link: Learn More
Thank you,
Lackawaxen Township supervisors Brian Stuart, Fred
Gelderman, and Rich Krochta. 
 

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Regularly scheduled Supervisors meeting
Third Wed each month 6:30 p.m. at the Township Building on Township Road, off Route 590.Approved minutes from the July 2008 Regular Lackawaxen Township supervisors' meeting: Minutes are approved from the previous month at regular meetings. August meetings will be approved at the September Regular meeting. Click Here

Regularly scheduled Planning Commission First Wed of each month at 7 p.m. All meetings are held at the Township Building at.116 Township Road, off Route 590 in Lackawaxen unless otherwise announced or advertised.
The land adjacent to the Delaware
River in our town is the National Park
Service's Wild and Scenic Upper
Delaware. 

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