Gulf Summit , New York It’s name… Gulf Summit, was first described by John Anderson, a surveyor for the Erie railroad who described it as “A Remarkable Pass or Glen”, called the “Gulf Summit” in 1841 in his report to the New York State Surveyor at the time Dewitt Clinton (Up until then it was known as “Corwins’ Place”). It is a small hamlet located in the Town of Sanford, Broome County, New York. Settled in 1815 by Alfred Corwin and his wife Rachel Lamoreaux. Alfred was a veteran of the War of 1812, having served with the New York 137th Volunteer Infantry Regiment. They raised 8 children; with David Corwin, their eldest serving as the community’s first Postmaster from 1856-1858. Today the population is less than 100. At it’s peak….350. It remains an unincorporated hamlet, with fewer than 25 houses. During it’s 210 year history it has boasted an “Acid Works” (Wood Acetate of Lime), Sawmills, Blacksmith shops, three General stores, at least 6 boarding houses, a feed mill, a creamery, stone loading dock, 4 churches, a schoolhouse, a girl scout camp, boy scout camp, railroad station, railroad Signal tower (GF was it’s Designation) , a water tank for replensihing steam locomotives, and was the highest point along the old Erie Railroad “Mainline”. The railroad was started in nearby Deposit, NY in 1835. Gulf Summit is the location of the most expensive section of construction of the railroad with a cost of $200,000 to get through “The Cut” (a half-mile long by 200 foot high stone barrier between the Summit and Susquehanna, completed in 1848 with the official opening of the Railroad in May of 1851). Social Clubs included “The Whackey Club”, Ladies Aid Society, Christian Endeavor Society, Young Presbyterians, 4 H Club, National Farmers Alliance No. 550, Floral Grange, The Gulf Summit Eagles baseball team (which won the 1953 Walton Reporter League Pennant), among others.