 Native Americans settled in the Solomon Creek watershed by approximately 8000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. Ebenezer Hibbard was an early European settler on the creek , living there by 1772 . The creek is named after a person with the surname of Solomon , who settled at the mouth of the creek in 1774 . In the early 1800s , Europeans first realized the natural resources of the watershed . In the early 1800s , there was a tavern called Inman 's Tavern and several cabins in the Solomon Gap . In the mid @-@ 1800s , the population of the watershed increased significantly due to coal mining and timbering opportunities . The first road in Fairview Township , the Wilkes @-@ Barre and Hazleton Turnpike , started at Solomon Creek . 
