Editing Coudersport, Pennsylvania (section)

==Notable facts==
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Coudersport is home to a [[Scottish Rite]] [[wikt:consistory|Consistory]]. With approximately 3000 members, Coudersport's Consistory has the largest per-capita membership of any Scottish Rite Consistory.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coudersport Consistory |url=http://www.coudersportconsistory.com/welcome.html}}</ref>

The newly re-opened [[Coudersport Ice Mine|Ice Mine]] is a popular tourist attraction in Coudersport. The mine freezes with ice in the summer, and the ice melts in the winter.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cheney |first1=Jim |title=The Coudersport Ice Mine: Pennsylvania’s Coolest Natural Oddity |url=https://uncoveringpa.com/coudersport-ice-mine |website=Uncovering PA |access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref>

Coudersport was the home of "Untouchable" [[Eliot Ness]] at the time of his death. He was a principal in the Guaranty Paper Corporation, which specialized in watermarking legal & official documents to prevent counterfeiting.  The company moved from Cleveland to Coudersport around 1955 because operating costs were lower. Ness, with his wife and son, were living in the Brocklebank home from 1956-57. Ness died there from a heart attack in May 1957.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eliot Ness - Cleveland Police Museum |url=https://www.clevelandpolicemuseum.org/collections/eliot-ness/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241213124701/https://www.clevelandpolicemuseum.org/collections/eliot-ness/ |archive-date=2024-12-13 |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=www.clevelandpolicemuseum.org |language=en-US}}</ref>

Located in the northern portion of Coudersport is the Coudersport Area Recreation Park (CARP). This sports and recreation park was established in the 1960s by a group of town leaders including Dr. William L. Mitchell, a local veterinarian. It currently has a football field with track & field capabilities, baseball and softball fields, basketball courts, picnic areas and hiking trails.

According to historical books at the Penn State University Park library, Coudersport derived its name from a Dutchman named Couder who was a primary funder for the surveying of the future town as a "port" on the [[Allegheny River]], thus becoming Couder's Port.

Coudersport was the former headquarters of [[Adelphia Communications Corporation|Adelphia]], which at its peak was the 5th largest cable provider in the United States.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20010405070632/http://www.adelphia.com/media/contact.cfm Contact Information]." Adelphia Media Services; retrieved April 29, 2010.</ref> The company went bankrupt due to internal corruption in 2002, and the headquarters were moved to Colorado a few years later.<ref>{{cite web |title=Adelphia founder gets 15-year term; son gets 20 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8291040 |publisher=NBCnews.com}}</ref>

The fictional town of Farringdon, depicted in the [[Judy Bolton Series|Judy Bolton detective series]] by [[Margaret Sutton]], is based on Coudersport, where Sutton grew up and attended school.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 25, 2001 |title=Obituary: Margaret Sutton, 98; Wrote Mystery Series |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/us/margaret-sutton-98-wrote-mystery-series.html |access-date=June 22, 2009}}</ref> The school, town hall, and several recognizable residences are described in her books. Judy Bolton Days, an annual festival honoring the books of the late Sutton, is hosted each October by the local Chamber of Commerce.

Radio stations [[WNG591]] (a [[NOAA Weather Radio]] outlet programmed out of [[State College, Pennsylvania|State College]]) and [[WFRM]] (a locally programmed AM radio station, 600&nbsp;kHz) are licensed to Coudersport. The former [[WCOR-FM|WFRM-FM]], 96.7&nbsp;MHz, was licensed to Coudersport for much of its existence but was later reallocated to [[Portville, New York]]. The local newspaper, the ''Potter Leader-Enterprise'', is published out of Coudersport.

Coudersport is located near [[Cherry Springs State Park]], which features some of the darkest skies near the East Coast. This means the town is a prominent destination for stargazers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cherry Springs State Park |url=https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/CherrySpringsStatePark/Pages/default.aspx |website=Pennsylvania DCNR |access-date=November 24, 2021}}</ref>