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The land that is now Pine Crest was first documented
on the 1612 map of John Smith, originally called the
Sasquesahanough. The Tuscarora Indians once roamed this
land in the early 1700’s. Their fortified village,
Ouaquaga, was an outpost of the British Colonies. The
village was destroyed by Colonial forces in 1778. The
region was first settled by outsiders around 1785, with
the Town of Windsor formed in 1807, the year following
the formation of Broome County. In the late 1890’s, the
Town of Windsor became famous for the manufacture of
buggy whips. The land where the campground is now
located was owned by the Beebe family in the early
1900’s and was a farm called Sunnyside. In 1910, the
farm was sold to Charles Frederick Wright, a
Pennsylvania’s State Treasurer. When steamships plied
the river, the Steamer Ermine would land here with her
passengers to have picnics, so it seems fitting that
Pine Crest was founded in 1962 and has been in operation
as a campground since then. |
