Worthville:

Worthville was incorporated in 1878. Originally, the town was named Geistown, named for Daniel Geist (1809 - 1890). When he was 16, Geist left his original home in the east and boarded a train for Illinois. There was a train wreck on the line, and he landed in Indiana, PA. There he got a horse and rode to Mayport over an Indian trail. He settled in Mayport and built a grist mill. At the time he bought a large tract of land from the Holland Land Company. After a few years he returned east to visit his family. His talk of the beautiful pine forests of the area persuaded some of his family and friends to move to Mayport with him. Later, he sold his land in Mayport and moved 7 miles east into the land he had purchased from the Holland Land Company. There he established a new grist mill and named the settlement Geistown. Later, when it was time to establish a post office, it was discovered that there was already a Geistown near Philadelphia. Therefore, the town was named Worthville in honor of General Worth who was often a guest at the Geist Hotel run by Elias Geist.

At one time, there were 2 churches, a school, a blacksmith shop, a grist mill, a shoe repair shop, three stores, an undertaker, and a tannery. The first person buried at the Worthville Cemetery was Andrew Falk, who drowned in a vat at the tannery in 1872.