![]() Wilsonville was chosen as the second seat of county government in 1799. Sadly the operation failed due to lack of sufficient quantities of flax and hemp resulting in the financial ruin of Judge Wilson. A man of great wealth, Wilson owned large tracts of land along the Wallenpaupack Creek on which he grew flax and hemp that he planned to use in the manufacture of fabric in the factory he erected near Hawley in 1792. Wilsonville was named after Judge James Wilson, a native of Scotland, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and, at the time the county was established, one of the judges of the Supreme Court. ![]() It is believed that the first houses built in the area were on the Pike County side of the creek. The earliest settlements in the region were made at Wilsonville, occupying a position on what became the dividing line between the two counties, and in the area was to become became Pike County. ![]() Palmyra is one of the smallest townships in the county. Its mass was again diminished in 1850 with the formation of Paupack Township and yet again on Januwhen the Borough of Hawley was incorporated and set off from the township. It was reduced in size when Pike County was established in 1814 with the Wallenpaupack Creek serving as the dividing line and the portion with the old Paupack Settlement now in Pike. ![]() Palmyra is another of the six original townships formed when Wayne County was established from a portion of Northampton County in 1798. ![]()
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