The Tannersville Inn located in Tannersville, Pennsylvania in Monroe County, closed its doors for good, at the end of July in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Iconic historical landmark is planned to be demolished and replaced with a 5,585 square foot Wawa gas station and convenience store. The Wawa would be surrounded by a 64 space parking lot (16 more spaces than Township regulations require) along with 12 fueling pumps.

The Tannersville Inn building itself, is one of the oldest buildings that is left in the heart of the Pocono Mountains. The land was orginally founded in 1825. In 1831, when tourism was starting to become popular a hotel was built that was called Manasseh Miller's Hotel. During this time this area was named Pocono Point. In 1846 Pocono Point adopted the name Tannersville due to the tanning industry. So in 1847 Manasseh Miller's Hotel changed its names to the Tannersville Inn and Tavern. This building is nearly 200 years old (192 years approximately).

The people that were born and raised in the Pocono Mountains know about The Tannersville Inn and the history behind it.

The building is located on the corner of 611 at one of the worst intersections, where many accidents have happened, and many lost their lives. The last thing that the town needs is another gas station and convenient store. There's the ExxonMobil gas station, and right up the road not even a mile from The Tannersville Inn is a Turkey Hill that was built not long ago across from the Weis Market and next to Steel's Ace Hardware.

611 is not designed for all these new strip malls, medical buildings, and the traffic. This is about MONEY and only MONEY. No one is taking into account or consideration what people think about this decision. Developers are buying whatever land they can and putting big chain stores everywhere. The Poconos is NOT a city. It was not designed to be the way it is now, despite the growing population. The Pocono Mountains was meant to be rural and country. It's known for it's peace, scenery, wildlife, tranquility and a place where you can get away and relax. Now, it's turned into which back roads can we take to not sit in traffic for hours and to dodge the traffic lights. Remember the saying "Pride of the Poconos?" Each strip mall that's put up, every historic building that is getting demolished the saying "Pride of the Poconos" is obtaining less meaning. 

People have asked in a rude way "If getting rid of the Tannersville bothers so many, why didn't anyone step in and buy it?" Seriously? Since COVID-19 hit in 2020 many people lost their jobs due to businesses closing either for a long period of time or they ended up closing for good. Inflation has been ridiculous and at a all time high. A normal middle class family that lived comfortably are now struggling to make ends meet, because all the necessities we need to live have gone through the roof. Oh, let's not talk about the tax increase and interest rates. We're not big development companies with million of dollars. The Tannersville Inn was locally owned and family owned, which now a days is hard to find places like that. If enough people from the community come together, respect each other,  speak out, voice their opinion, we can make a difference as many feel angered by this. Maybe someone would be able to stop this, keep the building as it is, list it as a historical landmark, renovate it and turn it into something beautiful for the community and tourist can visit. People don't try anymore. They complain that they are against something, but don't do anything about it to fix it. Sometime you have to fight to get want you want. If you lose then you can at least say you tried.

So let's come together as a community, show what Pride of the Poconos actually means and hope something gets done. 

Many that know the Tannersville Inn, it is claimed to be haunted and it has many spirits. A lot of people don't believe in the paranormal and are skeptical until they encounter something themselves. The property did have a family murdered on it. Native Americans were involved, as Native Americans were a huge part of the Poconos at one point. There's certain things you don't mess with unless you know what you're getting into, or unexplainable things tend to happen, that have unfortunate outcomes. 

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