Outside the region, and even inside it, very few know Susquehanna County exists. A recent documentary on WVIA, Channel 44 stated the Susquehanna River enters Pennsylvania at Sayre. As most school aged children know, the river actually enters a few miles North and East of Susquehanna. If an educational television station lets misinformation on their air without a correction, it doesn’t say much for them. It says even less for this county. It may exist in name, but as to location, physical characteristics, attributes (positive and negative) it is basically unknown.
Many who don’t live here, but vacation here think of Susquehanna County as a beautiful area but with little to offer on a year round basis.
If you talk to a typical resident of the greater Binghamton area, they will probably know that Susquehanna County exists to the South, but are likely as not to refer to the residents as “woodchucks”. Nice place to hunt, etc., but not much going on there…
If you talk to residents of the greater Scranton area, many of them will say “Oh, you live way up there?” Now, it is about a 15 minute drive from the malls at Dickson City to Lenoxville, maybe 30 if there is construction, but that can be another post. The same is generally true from Binghamton driving South to Great Bend. So why do people think we live “way up (or down) there?”
If you query someone in the Harrisburg area about Susquehanna County, the general responses, in my experiences are “Where is Susquehanna County?” “Oh, I think I drove through there once, it’s a pretty area, isn’t it” “I took Route 6 to Mansfield (or wherever), it was a nice ride”.
The second and third comments are more of a request for a verification from you as they don’t know if there were through the county or not, but are hoping you will agree with them to end the discussion… Of course US Route 6 never enters Susquehanna County…<Sigh>