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Jim Thorpe is a borough and the county seat of Carbon County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 4,781 at the 2010 census. The town has been called the Switzerland of America due to the picturesque scenery, mountainous location, and architecture; as well as the Gateway to the Poconos. It is in eastern Pennsylvania about 80 miles north of Philadelphia and 100 miles west of New York City. This town is also historically known as the burial site for the body of Native American sports legend Jim Thorpe.
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  • 3. Jim Thorpe Memorial Hall Jim Thorpe
    James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football , professional baseball, and basketball. He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules that were then in place. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee restored his Olympic medals. Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, and attended Carlisle Indian Industrial Scho...
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