• ...that the town of Gouldsboro was once called Sand Cut?

  • this town was originally called Sand Cut from the banks of sand created when the railroad bed was laid in 1840-1851. Later in 1885, the village became the Lehigh Township named for the origin of the Lehigh River at 2,000 feet above sea level.

 

• ...that there are three Civil War soldiers buried in the Lehigh Township cemetery?

  • In a graveyard about 100 yards from the station along 507 West in the Lehigh Township Cemetery, three Confederate soldiers are buried.Each year on Memorial Day when United States flags are put on veterans' stones in the cemetery, graves # 3, 4 and 5 are adorned with Confederate National flags.

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• ...that the town with seven lakes was named for the railroad magnate Jay Gould and that he built the first tannery in Gouldsboro/Thornhurst?

  • Tanneries sprung up in the northeast forests to supply tanned leather for New York City businesses. Hemlock bark which contained tannic acid was used to tan the leather and preserve it from decomposing. Here at the Gouldsboro train station in, 1857, raw leather was unloaded and transported over nine miles on hemlock plank roads, to the tannery of Jay Gould. The leather was tanned with the bark from the hemlock trees and the leftover trees were sawn into planks and used to build plank roads over the mud.