Dushore — Named for a French Admiral

The small borough of Dushore carries one of the stranger name origins in Pennsylvania. The community was founded in seventeen ninety-four, and the name traces back to a French naval officer: Captain Aristide Aubert Dupetit-Thouars, a man tied to the early settlement of this Pennsylvania hollow, whose name was gradually anglicized into the form that stuck. Dushore was incorporated as a borough in eighteen fifty-nine.

When Sullivan County was created from Lycoming County in eighteen forty-seven, Dushore expected to become the county seat, but Laporte was chosen instead, a slight that local residents discussed for decades. The borough sits at the edge of the Endless Mountains and today serves as one of the modest commercial hubs for a county that remains among the least populated in the state.