Beaver Meadows is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 897 at the 2020 U.S. census. Beaver Meadows is located in northwestern Carbon County at 40°55′42″N 75°54′46″W / 40.92833°N 75.91278°W along Beaver Creek, amidst a historic transportation corridor dating back t…Beaver Meadows is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 897 at the 2020 U.S. census. Beaver Meadows is located in northwestern Carbon County at 40°55′42″N 75°54′46″W / 40.92833°N 75.91278°W along Beaver Creek, amidst a historic transportation corridor dating back to Amerindian Trails through the wilderness area known to the Amerindians as "The Great Swamp". The Great Swamp was part of a vastly greater wilderness once known as “St. Anthony’s Wilderness” and by the Amerindians, the “Towamensing” being an Indian word for “wilderness”— a vast pinewood forest and boggy swamp-plagued valleys watered by springs and mountain creeks such as Quakake Creek, Beaver Creek, Hazel Creek and others from the surrounding mountains. The Amerindians applied the term, “Towamensing” to the entire frontier area above Blue Mountain, which while a valued hunting territory was considered less favorable to Indian settlements.
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