16 Dec Why Tripp Lake? (From Camp Susquehannock: A 100-Year History, by Dede Shafer)For several summers in the early 1970s, an effort was made to find the origin of the name "Tripp Lake." Although there are a number of families by the name of Tripp in the Conklin and Binghamton areas as well as in Scranton, no deeds could be found in the Susquehanna County courthouse for anyone by that name who had owned land on Tripp Lake in Lawsville Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.A few years ago a gentleman by the name of Tripp […] claimed that his great-great-great grandfather had settled at the lake before the turn of the century […] and it was he for whom the lake was named.