The Town of Rowlands in Pike County was given its name from Samual H. Rowland who settled in Pike County in 1828. He was in the Lumbering and Mercandising business. His eldest son, George, was a teacher, businessman, school director and was elected to the State Legislature in 1871 and to the State Senate in 1885.

The Lackawaxen (Indian name meaning "swift waters") area was used maily for lumbering purposes and the cut lumber was floated down the Lackawaxen River on large rafts to the Delaware River. One of the raftsmen was named William R. Walker. He and the other raftsmen of the area had a reputation for being quarrelsome. They would gang together while running rafts. If there was a saloon keeper along the river that they disliked, he was cleared out. When in the city (Philadelphia) they held their own against all opposition. There was a Canal (Delaware & Hudson) constructed beside the river from Honesdale that ran down the Delaware to Port Jervis and then on to the Hudson River. The raftsmen looked upon the canal as a rival carrier and had many confrontations with the Irishman (intruders) that built the Canal.

Jesse Walker, the father of William Walker purchased land from a Col. Hooper and operated mills on the property. William, built the first saw mill at TINK's WIG.

Israel, Able and Eli Hammers, three brothers belongings to the Society of Friends of Philadelphia came to Lackawaxen around 1820 and located in the wilderness, three miles from the Lackawaxen River, on the outlet of TINK POND, where they purchased three tracts of land covered with white and yellow pines (They probably lived in the vicinity of where our dam and clubhouse is today.) They constructed a dam and a saw-mill for the manufacturing of lumber. They did not cut any standing lumber, only that which was felled by the wind. About 1838, they adopted a colored boy and the four lived in perfect seclusion. When they became old and feeble, they put their lumber out on shares. Unfortunately, the parties ran away with the proceeds leaving them in debt. After one of the brothers died, they deeded the land over to their sister who lived in Philadelphia. She sold the land to a Benjamin Tanner. The brothers became wards of the Township and when they died were buried on the bank of the Litte Blooming Grove, opposite Millville.

In 1870, and again in 1892, a Mr. Felix Sartori purchased large tracts of land in the area that may have been part of what is now Tink Wig, for one dollar. The land purchased in 1870 was from one Batista Menotti. The Tink Wig Historical Committee is still researching who purchased this tract of land from Mr. Sartori. The land (50 acres) purchased in 1892 for one dollar was from a Paul Williams. An heir, Mr. Olivo Sartori sold the property to Hedwig Zingg in 1923 for $1,800. Mr. Zingg sold the property to a Mr. Michael Muldovan in 1952 for $3,400 and in 1972, Mr. Muldovan sold the property to the Tink-Wig Mountain Lake Forest Corporation for $55,000.

Around 1927, much of the property now called Tink Wig was owned by a Mark Bauer.

Mark Bauer at first used the land for selling lumber. Later, he established a vacation resort with seven trailers on the property. This was followed by rustic cabins (at 45 dollars per week), a Town House (meeting hall and clubhouse) and a small store for essentials. Outhouses were the vogue for vacationers at that time.