[3] Located roughly six miles south of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the history of the borough of Parryville can be traced back to the late eighteenth century, when Peter Frantz arrived on this land in 1780, and became the first man to settle there.

Leonard Beltz and Frederick Scheckler then arrived in 1781, and built a stone gristmill adjacent to the Pohopoco Creek.

[4] In 1836, the Pine Forest Lumber Company, which owned extensive tracts of rich timber land in the northern part of the county and in the southern portion of Luzerne County, established its headquarters in this growing community, and built new sawmills, a lathe machining facility and paling mills adjacent to the creek.

[4] In 1836, the Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company installed a line, which enabled travelers to cross the river from this place, making Parryville a terminus and shipping point.

These operations were interrupted in early 1841 when a freshet on January 7 and 8 swept away the railroad track between Parryville and Penn Haven Junction, as well as boat wharves and related shipping structures.

[4] Parryville became an independent school district in 1867 and was subsequently incorporated as a borough early in 1875, with Dennis Bauman serving as its first chief burgess.

[4] Parryville is located in southern Carbon County at 40°49′28″N 75°40′9″W / 40.82444°N 75.66917°W / 40.82444; -75.66917 (40.824403, -75.669246),[5] along Pohopoco Creek just north of its confluence with the Lehigh River.

[9] Interstate 476, the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, passes through the western part of Parryville, with access from Exit 74 (U.S. Route 209) just north of the borough limits.