The only Delaware & Hudson Gravity Railroad depot left in Wayne County today houses the Waymart Area Historical Society. The exact age of the building is not known, but it is shown on an 1860 map.

Up until 1844, the D&H kept its “Weigh-Mart” site at Plane No. 7 (later Planes 12 and 18). The Gravity Depot at Waymart was closed in 1899 and sold a year later to the Borough of Waymart for $125. The first settler in the Waymart area was Asa Stanton of Connecticut, who came to Canaan Township in 1790. Stanton owned more than 600 acres, partly purchased and partly bounty land from his service in the Revolution. Other early settlers were George Rix and Thomas Clark. which is why for a few years Waymart was known as Clarksville. The first schoolhouse was built by Leonard Starkweather near where the Waymart Hotel now stands, and the first Canaan Corners post office was opened in 1819. The borough officially became Waymart when it was incorporated in 1851.

From the collection of the Wayne County Historical Society, 810 Main St., Honesdale. The museum, research library and museum shop are open Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.