Leavitt Falls Near Sky Top, PA

LEAVITT FALLS AND GLEN NEAR SKYTOP, PA.

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from a 2010 USGS map

LEAVITT FALLS is located within Barrett Township, in the Pocono Mountains of Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Its water supply is fed by the Leavitt Branch, a stream that runs south from Greene, PA, dammed to form Mountain Lake and Lower Lake near the community of Skytop.  

From the 1872 map of Pike County, Pennsylvania [full map at Loc.gov], the "Leavitt's Branch" is seen at its northern point, before running south into Monroe County.

Who was the namesake for these water landmarks?
   Checking census records, there were no Leavitt households in either counties of Pike or Monroe, or in adjacent ones. It is currently not clear who these bodies of water were named for.