21/09: Jim Thorpe
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Jim Thorpe is a town in the middle of the Poconos in Pennsylvania. In 1953 the town of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were renamed to Jim Thorpe in honour of the athlete Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe was a great natural athlete that won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and professional), and played professional baseball and basketball. Jim Thorpe was raised in Oklahoma and attended an industrial school in Pennsylvania.
Today the town of Jim Thorpe is a thriving tourist town with shops in many of the beautiful old buildings and a train that runs through the Lehigh Gorge State Park. You can ride the train to see the scenery or you can ride the train with your bicycle, get off at the end of the line and ride the 25 miles back to town --- it's all down hill with a 1 to 3 percent grade. The part of the ride we saw looked like a lot of fun.
The train. The busy season is October when the leaves are changing colour.
We opted for the "open car". Carol, Caity, Jim, John and Ed.
Zaph borrowed Carol's hat to keep the sun out of his eyes. On the right -- the bike path running along the tracks.
A pipe line crossed the gorge and the railway tracks --- it was also used as a bridge.
Back in town Zaph and I are taking a break. On the right, a stream running through town.
This street is called Stone Row.
A church near Stone Row. The only way to get the entire church into the photo was to climb the hill to the mansion and look back over town.
Ed liked the sign.
Today the town of Jim Thorpe is a thriving tourist town with shops in many of the beautiful old buildings and a train that runs through the Lehigh Gorge State Park. You can ride the train to see the scenery or you can ride the train with your bicycle, get off at the end of the line and ride the 25 miles back to town --- it's all down hill with a 1 to 3 percent grade. The part of the ride we saw looked like a lot of fun.
The train. The busy season is October when the leaves are changing colour.
We opted for the "open car". Carol, Caity, Jim, John and Ed.
Zaph borrowed Carol's hat to keep the sun out of his eyes. On the right -- the bike path running along the tracks.
A pipe line crossed the gorge and the railway tracks --- it was also used as a bridge.
Back in town Zaph and I are taking a break. On the right, a stream running through town.
This street is called Stone Row.
A church near Stone Row. The only way to get the entire church into the photo was to climb the hill to the mansion and look back over town.
Ed liked the sign.