(Courtesy of Sarah Kline)

This is how the silk mill looked only a short while after it had been built (which was probably the spring and summer of 1919) and early in its operation. Notice the smoke stack to the rear, the roof vents and the one way street sign on what was then Highway 28 and today is US 522.

(Besides the present name, and B. Edmund David, what were at least two other names the textile mill operated under in Beavertown? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Today, Albert Bickhart has the barber shop in the front and his wife, Deanna has a beauty shop in the rear. Those are the two businesses in this building today.