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Glen Onoko Falls became linked to a legend fabricated by a tourist agent from the Lehigh Valley Railroad, who claimed it was the place where a heartbroken young Native American woman leaped to her death after being told she could not marry her only love. The resort of Glen Onoko drew one-half million nineteenth-century tourists on railroad junkets from New York and Philadelphia, and visitors hiked forest trails among waterfalls, grottos, and ravines while enjoying views praised in 1889 and 1890 descriptions as varied, grand, and picturesque. Additional recreation included a dance pavilion, tennis courts, and a merry-go-round, and the forty-seven-room Hotel Wahnetah provided lodging. The resort ended tragically in fire, with the hotel consumed in a forest fire in 1911 and a 1917 fire that spread from one of the ornate railroad station's fireplaces leaving Glen Onoko as a romantic memory.
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