Located in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania is a beautiful state park with the compelling name of Promised Land. It is visited by thousands annually, and many of those visitors have been coming to the park for generations. Promised Land State Park features more than 200 images that have been preserved by the state park, state agencies, historical organizations, and individuals. Through these unique images, many published here for the first time, the fascinating history of one of Pennsylvania's most popular parks is documented.

Peter Osborne has been an historian for more than forty years. He has written eighteen books on a variety of topics including parks, preserves, museums and historic sites in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and now Nebraska. His two books - Where Washington Once Led: A History of New Jersey's Washington Crossing State Park and No Spot In This Far Land Is More Immortalized: A History of Washington Crossing Historic Park were the recipient of the Ann Hawkes Hutton Park Ambassador Award in 2017.