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Gerry Hamilton
July 25 2019
I had the same question that Ed Darrin had, so I searched back issues of The Potter Enterprise … for hours.

Gordnier Flats was east of downtown Coudersport and part of the 200-acre Gordnier estate. The western edge of the estate was marked by Gordnier Street, which runs parallel to Mill Street and connects Dwight Street, Ross Street and Park Avenue. The estate was probably bounded on the north by East 2nd Street or the hill rising from that street. On the south possibly by Mill Creek.

Many encampment events were held on Gordnier Flats. There was a Gordnier Grove (also called Gordnier’s Grove), which was a natural park and the scene of many community events, including such things as Sunday School picnics. Perhaps the grove is today’s Mitchell Park on Park Avenue.

I am attaching a clip from The Potter Enterprise [7 Dec 1915 Tue p1]. The first mention of Gordnier's flat was an 1890 item about a robbery attempt on the flat. There was a building boom around 1900. Also there was a private pond, and I'm wondering if that is Othmer's Pond.

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John Christy Wetzel
Mrs. M.J. Potter (Lettie Gordnier b. 28 Aug 1872, married Milton J. Potter in 1891) and Frank E. Gordnier were children of Walter Blauvelt and Lydia Ruth Armstrong Gordnier. This is her portrait, posted late last year by Lanny. She has been in many of the turn-of-the-century pictures- Ladies with their babies, 1899; literary society, 1904; and 1922, ladies at the Park Methodist Church with the Rev. Billy Graham.
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John Christy Wetzel
Walter built the Gordnier Foundry & Machine Shop, where the first automobiles in Coudersport were repaired and where Frank worked his entire life, according to the photo posted in 2017 by Lanny. Walter, per his obituary, was "outspoken and independent. Original in thought; unyielding in opinion."
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John Christy Wetzel
This cutout of JW Vose & Co Landowners map shows the Gordnier Estate. It is pretty large, extending almost out to the Fairgrounds. My immediate impression was that this hill looked like where the County Home was located, just west of, or at, the Covey Estate' (also on the map) which is probably where Camp J.M. Covey is located, putting this landscape further out of town, almost to Ladowna/Lymansville. Hard to place, otherwise, but it would help to be able to see the hillsides closer to town.
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