Lackawanna Railroad station.

The town of Gouldsboro was named for Jay Gould (1836-1892). A native of New York, Gould acquired a very large fortune that by 1892 included ownership of ten percent of all railroad track in the country. One of the railroads he owned was the Erie-Lackawanna. This rail line parallels the eastern boundary of the park and is now a part of the Steamtown, USA railroad excursion route between Scranton and Pocono Summit.

Gould was a co-owner of a leather tannery at Thornhurst, a small village 9.5 miles west of Gouldsboro. Raw hides shipped from Australia and the western United States came to Gouldsboro by railroad and then were taken in two-ton loads by horse drawn wagons over a plank road to Thornhurst for tanning.


history Information thanks to Stateparks.com

Photographed by Mark Beebe, June 1, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Mark Beebe, June 4, 2008.
Railroad: Delaware,Lackawanna,and Western.

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