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Chris Barrett with the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau tells about Jim Thorpe’s mining history, the link to athlete Jim Thorpe, two “Packer” mansions and the Old Jail Museum. Visitors to this Victorian town, located between Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, get to “step back in time” in several ways, including a ride on the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway.