Hungry Hill Memorial
Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County, Pa.

HUNGRY HILL MONUMENT SULLIVAN TRAIL REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIAL 1779-TOBYHANNA TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY, PA. INSCRIPTION READS: SO CALLED BECAUSE OF PRIVATIONS SUFFERED BY MEN OF 2ND NEW YORK AND 5TH NEW JERSEY REGIMENTS OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE WHO ENCAMPED NEAR HERE WHILE CHANGING A WILDERNESS TRAIL INTO A MILITARY ROAD TO PAVE THE WAY FOR SULLIVAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE IROUQIOS. AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION WAR LIES BURIED HERE. SPONSERED BY MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ERECTED 1943 BY MONROE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (FROM HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY, PA 1886)

ON JUNE 18,1779, GENERAL SULLIVAN LEFT EASTON WITH 2500 MEN ON ROUTE TO CHASTISE THE INDIANS IN WYOMING VALLEY.

HIS ROUTE LAY THRU MONROE COUNTY. THE FIRST DAY HE WENT AS FAR AS HELLER'S TAVERAN, ABOUT 2 MILES BELOW WIND-GAP. SOON AFTER CROSSING A PLACE CALLED MUD RUN, THEY CAME TO A KNOLL, OR SMALL ROUND HILL, AND ENCAMPED, SENT BACK TO FORT PENN (STROUDSBURG) FOR PROVISIONS, AND LAY THERE SEVERAL DAYS MAKING A ROAD THRU A SWAMP AT THE NORTHWESTERN BASE OF THE HILL WHILE WAITING FOR PROVISIONS FROM FORT PENN.

SULLIVAN NAMED THE TWO PLACES RESPECTIVELY" HUNGRY HILL" AND "HELL'S KITCHEN". ON THE HILL A TREE WAS MARKED BY LETTERS CUT IN IT "HUNGRY HILL". THE TREE WAS BROKEN BY THE WINDS IN LATER TIMES AND A BLOCK OF THE TREE WAS CUT OUT AND LATER PURCHASED BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PA.(AS OF 1886) WHILE AT HUNGRY HILL, ONE OF SULLIVAN'S SOLDIERS DIED, AND WAS BURIED BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, ON THE CREST OF THE HILL, AND THE GRAVE IS PLAINLY SEEN BY ALL PASSERS, BEING INDICATED BY THE MOUND AND LARGE STONE AT THE HEAD OF THE GRAVE.

~Donna~

 

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