Bartonsville is an unincorporated community in Hamilton, Pocono, Jackson and Stroud townships in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[2][3] Bartonsville was founded in 1831 by Colonel Joseph Benjamin Barton when he opened up a hotel[4] and post office along the Easton-Belmont Turnpike stagecoach route.

Barton settled along this profitable transportation route after running an ice cream parlor in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania for several years.

At the turn of the 20th century, Bartonsville was the typical, small Mid-Atlantic community, including two one-room school houses (due to the multiple townships in which it is located), a grist mill, a tannery and barkshed, a grand, rambling hotel (Barton's by then called the Forest Inn), a creamery, general store, post office and cobbler.

Passing through the Bartonsville area is Pennsylvania Route 611, which is lined with modern shopping centers and subdivisions, among them Barton Glen, Tara Hills, Pocono Laurel Lake, Fawn Acres, and Buck Valley.