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Eagles Mere is a tiny borough in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, a preserved Victorian-era resort village in the Endless Mountains of north-central Pennsylvania built around the spring-fed lake of the same name.

The name Eagles Mere literally means 'the eagle's lake' - 'mere' is an old word for a broad, shallow lake, and bald eagles nested around its shores.

In 1794 English investor George Lewis bought 10,217 acres here and built a glass factory in 1798; the lake was first called Lewis Lake before Judge Richtor Jones renamed it Eaglesmere in 1845.

Eagles Mere was laid out as a resort in 1877, and civil engineer Embley S. Chase arrived in 1886 to oversee its development - a narrow-gauge railroad once climbed the mountain to deliver summer visitors to its grand hotels.

Eagles Mere was incorporated on April 20, 1899, the last municipality to be incorporated in Sullivan County.

Fewer people live in Eagles Mere than in any other municipality in Sullivan County - the 2020 census counted just 151 full-time residents, up from 120 in 2010, when the borough had only 62 households.

Eagles Mere's population blooms to 2,000 or more in the summer, when the descendants of its Gilded Age summer families return to the cottages around the lake.

The Eagles Mere Historic District, with its Victorian summer cottages and the Eagles Mere Inn era streetscape, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Eagles Mere Lake sits about 2,000 feet above sea level in the Sullivan Highlands, making the village one of the highest lake resorts in Pennsylvania.

In 1961 the village's property owners formed the Eagles Mere Association, a nonprofit that took over the old land and boat companies and still runs the lake at the center of community life.