Osceola Mills was the first town in the county to receive a railroad in 1862 and the telephone in 1878. In 1874, Berwind-White, the 4th largest coal company in the world, was founded here. The 1875 fire made homeless over 1200 of 1500 residents. Publisher Horace Liveright was born here in 1886. The town was on the route of the Lakes to Sea Highway in 1923. Revolutionary War Patriot Elizabeth Goss is buried at Stumptown.