Hungry Hill on the Sullivan Road
Hungry Hill is a Revolutionary War memorial and gravesite of an unknown soldier located in Tobyhanna Township. This encampment site was named by Maj. Gen. John Sullivan’s 1779 expedition, which built a road through the Pocono wilderness so troops could move north to avenge the Wyoming Massacre. They called the adjacent swamp Hell’s Kitchen. Army engineers built this first road on the Pocono Plateau, across the desolate area known as the Great Swamp. Meager provisions required the soldiers to live off the land, and one died here.. Read More...