The Roark Family Fund is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of buildings and other structures with social or historical significance to the communities of northeast Pennsylvania for the benefit of present and future generations.
TJ Roark was born in 1859 in Fork Mountain, PA (Equinunk area). He was a farmer and ran a boarding house there. He was a father of 5 and lived in the northeast PA area his entire life. His daughter, Beatrice, would marry and live in Pleasant Mount, PA. His other children left the area but maintained relationships here and had a summer vacation home in Lake Como, which is still in the family today. One of TJ’s granddaughters, Sue Ryan, married Ben McCormick, a Honesdale native. They raised their 13 children on the McCormick Homestead in Honesdale.
Throughout the years, many of TJ's descendants have moved back to northeast PA because of the family ties and the beauty this area provides. It was decided that a fund be created in TJ’s honor to preserve the area he lived in for almost 80 years.
Visit our Roarkfamilyfund.com website to see the projects we have provided assistance to and to learn more about the Roark family heritage in northeast PA.