A contingent of Lehighton Elementary Center students took a stroll, and in the process, learned about a long-standing landmark.

As the students would likely attest, Tuesday’s fourth-grade Heritage Walk was more than just any ordinary trek through the park.

Students were taught about and shown the historic Victorian style judge’s stand by borough Councilwoman Autumn Abelovsky.

The octagonal judge’s stand can now be found at the corner of Eighth and Iron streets, next to the Lehighton Grove.

Abelovsky, who was joined by borough manager Nicole Beckett, told the students the stand is believed to be the last existing structure of its kind.

She said the judge’s stand roof raises from a center pillar for viewing purposes, a fact that left some students mesmerized.

Count Hayleigh Hudak among them.

“I think it’s really cool that you can raise the roof thing,” Hayleigh said. “At first when I looked at it, I thought it was something to sell tickets with.”

Fellow student Asher Traylor was equally impressed.

“Whoever the engineer who made this was very smart,” Asher said. “I think it’s very cool that they’re letting us look at it.”

Constructed in 1900, Abelovsky said the stand was a centerpiece of the Great Lehighton Fair and the Carbon County Fair until its last year in Lehighton in 1992.

She said since the stand was refurbished for preservation purposes, the roof has been raised only a few times.

With the help of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, the borough had obtained a $20,000 Department of Community and Economic Development Grant for the refurbishing of the stand.

In 2012, Lowe’s contacted the borough expressing an interest in assisting with the project through the Lowe’s Heroes Volunteer Program.

With the help of Lowe’s, the project was able to become a reality.