There are no mines in Dushore, wasn't a lumber town either. The little red building with the bell cupola was the fire house for over fifty years.. Dushore was a Mill town and the center of commerce and trade in Sullivan County, still is for the most part.
It was built on the Susquehanna and Tioga Turnpike; a cross roads town, per se. Two railroads, a large creamery, several grist mills - two of which still stand with evidence of their prior use; a multitude of factories. It's changed a lot over the past thirty years, it was quite large with in the confines of the borough limits.
Age, disrepair, lack of respect for historic value and fire, all played parts in Dushore looking like the one-horse town it does today. Since about the 1870's, that creek has had structures built over top it. Adding the extremely large-decked bridge, it's almost easy to miss the fact that a creek goes under the road. A fire in 1983 took every building in that section, the fire house was built to survive a block fire. When a fire stream is directed upon it's metal siding, neither direct flame nor radiant heat will bring it down.
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