Clark's book is a good one for giving an historic overview of Falk: its origins, community and decline.  As one of Arcadia's “Images of America” series, it has over 100 historic photographs with detailed and informative captions.

        The book's first section highlights the technology developed for felling, milling and transporting lumber. The second explores life in a company town where workers come from around the nation and world to live in an isolated self-reliant community which provides its own general store, post office, dance hall, blacksmith and cook house, with schools and a church within a mile.

        Section three deals with the transition to a ghost town when the automobile meant that workers could live elsewhere and the Depression undercut local prosperity. Eventually most buildings were razed due to liability, and Falk became a site in the Headwaters Forest Reserve with an interpretive center and trailside signs revealing the history of a once thriving community.