Our roots on Lake Wallenpaupack date back to 1949 when Tom Gresham -a businessman originally from Throop, PA -purchased 32 acres of land on Lake Wallenpaupack. The land included a building called the Taft House Coach Stop which was relocated from the Wilsonville Beach Area to facilitate the construction and flooding of the Lake Wallenpaupack creek bed. That building was converted to a restaurant that would be run by Mr. Gresham’s his two daughters Anne Regenski and Mary 'Sis' Finan. Mary Finan and her husband Joe would soon leave the area to pursue work in the steel industry leaving Anne and her husband Joe Regenski the second generation to carry the restaurant business forward. With the restaurant -now named The Tafton Manor -having a successful start, Mr. Gresham decided the area would benefit from a lodging facility and in 1952, he began construction of what would become a 21-room motel over a period of six years. It would be called the Tafton Manor Motel, later to be renamed Gresham's Lake View Motel. Business prospered through '-the late 1950's through the mid 1970's culminating in the sale of The Tafton Manor in 1978.