(Courtesy of Gertrude Graybill)

Shown here was Beavertown’s largest employer prior to the coming of the silk mill. Notice the railroad sidings which were busy in those days. The smoke stack was for the steam engine. The wooden building to the left background was moved across Center Street and is now the residence of Kathryn Spaid.

(What doctor had his office in this moved building? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

The Isabella Steam Tannery was the name of the very large industry once located in Beavertown where Ira Bobb’s house is, and the home just south of it (where Clarence Walker lived) on South Center Street.

Mr. Samuel Lupher built the tannery, ran it for 40 years, and then sold it to the Wood family of Philadelphia, which is what brought John Wood into Beavertown.