Thomas Huckell brought his family to the Forks of Loyalsock Creek in 1797 and contracted with Joseph Priestly for four hundred acres on both sides of the creek at the Forks. He died after only one year there, and his widow, unable to complete the payments, surrendered to Priestly the part of the tract on the side of the creek now occupied by the business part of Forksville while retaining the remainder, later owned by her grandson Daniel T. Huckell. Her homestead stood on the left side of Little Loyalsock about a fourth of a mile from the church. In 1802 Samuel Rogers Sr. bought one hundred and forty acres from widow Huckell, and his sons Samuel, William, and Jonathan began a woolen factory there. By the War of 1812 the mill was steadily producing private and military clothing and employing local people, but a major flood swept away everything except the dye kettle, later found about a mile down the creek. Rogers's youngest son, Moses, born in 1806, remained in the area, laid out the village of Forksville in 1854, and lived until 1879 as the town began to prosper. In 1816 Mrs. Sarah Huckell conveyed half an acre to trustees of the Loyalsock school, and the first teacher, John Warburton, taught in the first log building erected especially for school purposes in Sullivan County. The remains of the second school date from 1875, and in 1886 its second floor housed the county's only accredited three-year high school at that time. Forksville was organized as a borough in 1880 and had 152 residents in the 1900 census. The town is also associated with the Sullivan County Fair Grounds on Route 154 and with the Burr Truss covered bridge built by Sadler Rogers in 1850, which still carries cars from Route 154 onto Bridge Street.