Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc.

East Baltimore Street sometime between 1914 and 1932.
~ A span of 18 years based upon the Brendle building being completed in 1914 and because the trolley tracks can still be seen in the street.
~ The trolley service ended in 1932 because the automobile made the trolley inactive and out of vogue.
~ Notice the condition of the building next to it.

82 years ago today on December 7, 1941
~ "A day that will live in infamy."
~ December 7, 1941 was the bombing of Pearl Harbor and when the US entered WWII.
~ Please visit Allison-Antrim Museum to see this WWII Exhibit before it comes down for the Jr/Sr Art exhibition in January.
~ The WWII exhibit includes: A Purple Heart given to the parents of Howard Beveler High, Nov 14, 1914 to September 10, 1944.
~ A dagger from the USS Greencastle donated by the Harold Hoffman family.
~ WWII art therapy work by Paul Hubbard given to the late Elmer Packheiser, Navy Medic, who worked with wounded WWII Navy sailors. And, yes, they had art therapy back then.
~ And a WWII Japan flag.

The McDowell Blacksmith Shop southeast of Greencastle.
~ The image was printed 74 years ago in the Echo-Pilot in 1949.
~ The photograph was taken about 1909 (112 years ago).
~ The map of the southeast quadrant of the Antrim Twp 1868 map shows a blacksmith shop at the intersection of Hollowell Rd (the 2nd N/S road) and McDowell Rd.
~ The shop was located at the north/south road closest to the eastern Antrim Twp border. The road intersects the southeasterly road.
~ B.S.Sh stands for blacksmith shop.
~ Click the image to read the caption.
~ Oh to visit for just one day...
~ Thank you to the unknown photographer!

110 Years Old: Thomas Alva Edison's Amerberola
~ Gems at Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc.
~ To listen to Edison's Amberola click the link or copy and paste: bit.ly/2TjQEBN
~ Enjoy this six-minute journey back in time.
~ Amberola: amberol for the newest (c. 1909) of wax "cylinder records" (blue) which are four minutes in length.
~ The blue wax cylinders played twice as long as the "Gold-Moulded" cylinders.
~ "ola," the generic name for a sound machine with a "horn."
~ The "horn" is concealed inside the lower portion of the box.
~ The date of this Amberola is 1913.
~ Which is older - the wax cylinder or the flat black record?
~ Thomas Alva Edison: inventor & businessman; Born: February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio; Died: October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey.

Toys, toys, and more toys...
~ All are from donations over the past 20 + years and are from Greencastle-Antrim residents.
~ The majority date to the early 20th century.
~ Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc. is open Tuesday to Friday, noon to 4 pm and Saturday, 11 am to 1 pm.
~ The exhibit will bring back many memories for Boomers.

Please join us this evening Friday, December 1, for Christmas Open House
~ 6:30 to 8:30 pm
~ The Irwin House and the Barn will be open.
~ Pat Beard & Connie Bishop will provide Christmas music in the Barn.
~ Visitors will receive a "cookie-to-go."
~ We look forward to welcoming you.

What! No banks in Greencastle.
~ 115 years ago in 1908, Judge D. Watson Rowe shared his reminiscences.
~ Everything was paid for in cash.
~ “If one would deposit money, he must ride or drive to Chambersburg (or further as Chambersburg was established in 1803)
~ The merchant, four times a year, went to Philadelphia or Baltimore to buy goods. He put his money in a belt strapped around his waist next to the skin for safety,
~ ...counted down the money for his cash purchases as he sold the goods afterwards, and kept the proceeds in his safe.
~ The use of checks and drafts was not common at all, scarcely known…
~ Every one was security for his neighbor. When one business went down, the rest followed in quick succession, like a row of bricks on end.
~ Some notes were counterfeit, & some from defunct banks far away. A bank note Detector (a human being) was in constant use...
~ The first bank in Greencastle was Farmers & Mechanics Bank, which opened in 1814. It was located on the southwest corner of the square. That bank failed in 1818 and for almost a half century (46 years), Greencastle was without a town bank, until the First National Bank of Greencastle opened in 1864.

From 20 years ago. Allison-Antrim Museum's Barn before it was moved to Greencastle.
~ Barn photographs from September 2003 in its original state.
~ The first photograph is of what is now the North Storage Bay in the lower level of the barn.
~ The second photograph is what the current South Storage Bay looked like 20 years ago.
~ The third photograph is of the original bank-side doors.
~ The fourth is the barn after dismantling, moving, and rebuilding the barn on the museum's property and before final changes were made including painting the barn red.

Allison-Antrim Museum's "Necessary House."
~ In the spring of 2001, Roy Leckron and his late wife Ada donated a 3-seater "necessary house" to Allison-Antrim Museum.
~ Antrim Township in the early 1950s was still fairly "rural," without indoor plumbing and private phone lines.
~ Do you remember using one while growing up??
~ And, no, the outhouse is just for the sake of history. 😉

Christmas Open House
~ This Friday, December 1, 2023
~ 6:30 to 8:30 pm
~ The Irwin House and the Barn will be open.
~ Pat Beard & Connie Bishop will provide Christmas music in the Barn.
~ Visitors will receive a "cookie-to-go."
~ We look forward to welcoming you.

260! years ago in 1763, on land owned by William Allison,
~ On this corner of the square was Greencastle's first tavern at the southwest corner of the King's Highway (US Rt 11)
~ and a dirt road that led to the city and port of Baltimore (PA Rt 16).
~ It is not known who built the tavern. It was in existence when William Allison acquired the land.
~ Today, that site is located on the southwest corner Greencastle's square at Baltimore & Carlisle Streets.
~ The tavern, which became known as Allison's Tavern, was but a log structure - a place of respite for those traveling. They could possibly get something to eat & drink and pay for a "space" to sleep in a bed. Blacksmith services were also rendered if needed.
~ In 1782, this plot became known as Lot #1 on the layout of John Allison's town which he called Greencastle.
~ The log structure was eventually razed (progress) and in its place was built a brick structure known as the Union Hotel.
~ After renovations in 1905, it was known as the National Hotel, which later closed in 1920 during Prohibition.
~ At the time this photograph was taken, the hotel was called the National Hotel.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
From The Pilot (Greencastle), November 24, 1863, second page
“A drove of turkeys were driven through town last Wednesday.”
~ Turkeys can fly, so how do you drive turkeys, without losing any?
~ Are their flight feathers clipped?
~ A group of wild turkeys is referred to as a flock whereas a group of domesticated turkeys is referred to as rafter.
~ From the dictionary:
the collective nouns for turkey include: rafter, posse, gang, dole, flock, and raffle.

60 years ago on Friday, November 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated.
~ 60 years ago, VP Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as President, two hours and nine minutes after the death of President Kennedy.
~ Johnson chose a long-time friend, federal district Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes, to swear him in - most likely the 1st woman to swear in a US President.
~ 60 years ago on Saturday, November 23, 1963, the newspaper headlines showed photographs of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, being sworn in on the Presidential Plane, as president of the United States.
~ Television was just coming into its own. Never before had a president’s assassination and the aftermath come into the living rooms of millions of households.
~ If you're a Boomer or older, where were you?
Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office on Air Force One following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas. Identified persons include: ( #1) Malcolm Kilduff (press secretary), ( #2) Jack Valenti (media adviser), ( #3) Judge Sarah T. Hughes, ( #4) Congressman Albert Thomas, ( #5) Lady Bird Johnson, ( #6) Chief Jesse Curry (Dallas police chief), ( #7) Lyndon B. Johnson, ( #8) Evelyn Lincoln (personal secretary to John F. Kennedy), ( #9) Congressman Homer Thornberry, ( #10) Roy Kellerman (USSS agent), ( #11) Lem Johns (USSS agent), ( #12) Jacqueline Kennedy, ( #13) Pamela Turnure (press secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy), ( #14) Congressman Jack Brooks, ( #15) Bill Moyers (Peace Corps deputy director). Photo by Cecil W. Stoughton.

Did you know Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were also astronomers and scientists as well as surveyors of the Mason-Dixon Line which would become one of the most well-known "lines" in history?
~ Charles Mason, April 25, 1728 – October 25, 1786, an astronomer, was employed at the Greenwich Observatory. Mason moved his family to America, shortly after which, he passed away on Oct 25, 1786. He's buried in the graveyard at Christ Church, Philadelphia.
~ Jeremiah Dixon FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) July 27, 1733 – January 22, 1779 was a mathematician, scientist, surveyor & astronomer and walked the Mason-Dixon Line with Charles Mason just five miles south of Greencastle. Dixon is buried on his family's land in Cockfield, County Durham, England.
~ The Mason-Dixon Line is Antrim Township's southern border.
~ From the National Park Service, filmed in Independence Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3mracPi9wE&feature=share
~ For more on the John Bird Transit Telescope used by Mason and Dixon, visit: http://www.colonialinstruments.com/fabrication-of-the.../
~ Close up images of the pages (with transcriptions) from the journal of Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5821514
~ Jeremiah Dixon's life:http://mdlpp.org/.../JeremiahDixonaBiographicalNote.pdf

160 years ago on November 19, 1863 was the first Remembrance Day at Gettysburg at which President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
~ Did you have to memorize it when you were in elementary school?
~ The images are from your Library of Congress.
~ Lincoln can be seen in the dry plate glass negative photograph taken the day he gave the address.
~ He is in the middle of the photograph, slightly left of middle and and the man wearing a top hat with a sash that crosses his body.

At Kauffman's Station & in Greencastle
~ Today, we're all familiar with the shipping companies USPS, United Parcel Post, Federal Express (Fed Ex) but did you know Greencastle and Antrim each had an express shipping office?
~ It was Adams Express Company, established in 1854. It is still in operation, now known as Adams Diversified Equity Fund.
~ In the mid-19th century, it was a freight & cargo forwarding company with local agents & offices in many small towns in PA, wherever there was a train station, including Greencastle & Kauffman Station.
~ George Eby signed (on the receipt below) as the Adams Express agent, in Greencastle. This receipt is a rare survivor of time. And was discovered in the Ziegler family collection.
~ On the NY Stock Exchange, it is one of the oldest companies & is one out of five companies that has "operate(d) as a closed-ended fund since 1929." Adams Express has paid dividends since 1935.
~ On September 8th 1863 (just two months after the Battle of Gettysburg), George W Ziegler shipped, via Adams Express, a carbine (then valued at $15) to Daniel J. Ridgway (coal shipper by trade), in Pottsville, PA.
~ Daniel L Ridgway died May 24, 1873 but alas the carbine was not listed in the probate of his estate.
~ The Adams Express sign (see second image below) is hung left of the Kauffman's sign. Kauffman's sign gives the distance to Harrisburg from Kauffman's as 60 miles and Wi******er, to the south, is 56 miles.
~ There is no extant photograph of the Adams Express Office in Greencastle in the mid-19th century.
~ The only thing sweeter than this would be finding the carbine that was shipped.

Rankin’s Mill
~ A rare view of Rankin's Mill, built c.1754 by Jeremiah Rankin.
~ On July 8, 1756, during the French & Indian War, Caspar Walter who ran the mill was killed and four of his children were kidnapped.
~ The children were released eight years later. They only recognized their mother by a song she used to sing when they were very young.
~ During the French & Indian War, the mill and the owner's house were on opposite sides of today's Williamson Rd, about a mile west of Rt 11, where Muddy Run crosses underneath Williamson Rd.
~ On the 1868 map, going west, the mill was on the right (north side of road) and the stone home is on the left (south side of the road).
~ The limestone house can be seen in the background of the black/white photograph. The color photograph shows the limestone house in modern times.
~ After re-routing of the Williamson Rd sometime in the 20th century, the site of the house and mill are now located on the south side of Williamson Rd.
~ Muddy run continues south and flows into the Conococheague near the mini mart and gas station, about one mile west of Greencastle on Rt. 16.
~ Just wish I'd have had a chance to have gone through one of the early limestone mills.
~ This black and white image was among the GA Civil War Round Table Collection donated to Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc. in 2003.

Do you remember going to the State Line Drive-in Theater?
~ It opened in the mid-1950s & was the '50's version of an IMAX-size screen.
~ Pull in to a spot, open a window & hang the speaker box.
~ Theater snacks (popcorn, drinks, candy) were available at the concession window.
~ The State Line Theater closed circa 1978.
~ The property is currently owned by JLG.

Downtown, 83 Years Ago Today, November 14, 1940 ~ E.L.M.
~ While going through the museum's archives I came upon a handwritten sheet of "journal" entries. Unfortunately, the author is unkown.
~ One of the entries was for November 14, 1940:
~ "Eshleman, Lehman, & Martin purchased Ryder Hardware, remodeled building, last big shade tree cut down on square."
~ Eshleman, Lehman, & Martin = E.L.M. Department Store.
~ E.L.M. Department Store opened at 12 Center Square in "1941." The image is circa 1945.
~ The E.L.M. stores included a grocery store which is left of today's department store on the corner of the square. The hardware store was on the corner of the square and the clothing store was on the second floor.
~ So now you know. 😉

Conocheague Five-Arch Bridge
~ Constructed in the 1830s
~ Conocheague means "A Long Way Indeed."
~ It had been in a great state of disrepair and was dismantled by PennDOT sometime after Hurricane Agnes which was in 1972.
~ Hurricane Agnes "did not" cause the bridge's demise.
~ It was in a state of disrepair and PennDOT used the remains for road fill.
~ When constructed it was part of the Waynesburg, Greencastle, Mercersburg Pike, i.e. old Rt 16.

What a wonderful speaker presentation last evening Nov 9 at the November Speaker Meeting! "Thank you!" John Brown.
~ When: Thursday, November 9, 7:30 pm
~ Who: Doug Dobbs, in first person,
~ will give a presentation as the abolitionist John Brown.
~ Time period: will be the weeks leading up to Brown's infamous Raid on Harper's Ferry in October of 1859.
~ Our local Greencastle-Antrim area saw a great deal of activity on the Underground Railroad and the presentation will revolve around a warning to our local area to prepare for the flood of those seeking freedom in the wake of his raid.
~ Dobbs taught history at Broadfording Christian Academy for many years and has done extensive research into the life and times of Capt. Brown
~ Doug recently returned from a trip to John Brown sites in Kansas.

Ox tongue for lunch anyone?
~ Some things have just gone out of fashion like ox tongue. "Gustatory delight" could once be found on the grocery shelves in downtown Greencastle...
~ The late William P. Conrad once wrote, "Coming to Greencastle to dine in its downtown center of gustatory delight had a long, long tradition." All three of the hotels in Greencastle - McLaughlin Hotel (B Street), Franklin House, & the National Hotel, all had a fine dining room as well as a bar.
~ Two of the hotels (McLaughlin and Franklin), also, had "underground" or cellar restaurants.
~ Jimmy Carpenter, at the Franklin House below-ground-level eatery, was known for serving ham and oyster sandwiches.
~ While at the McLaughlin cellar, Elmer Pentz served beef tongue or limburger cheese sandwiches.
~ In the southwest corner of the square, in The Bucket of Blood, sub level at 29 Center Square, Cletus Zimmerman served soup, sandwiches, & pie at lunch, in his establishment .
~ The image is an advertisement for John Hostetter & Son, located in the three-story building on the northwest corner of the square at Rt 16. Notice that one of the "potted," i.e. canned meats, was ox tongue. Enjoy your lunch today!

No Amazon, K-Mart or Walmart needed. Downtown shopping had it all.
~ So what could you buy in Edgar Pensinger's hardware store (over 100 years! ago) on the square in Greencastle in the early 1900s?
~ Among many other things:
~ Work gloves
~ Rope
~ Twine
~ New mop heads
~ Felton-Sibley wall paints
~ Bicycles
~ Rain Slickers
~ Garden Hose
~ Shovels and other garden implements.
~ Targets and much, much more.

November Speaker Meeting
~ When: Thursday, November 9, 7:30 pm
~ Who: Doug Dobbs, in first person,
~ will give a presentation as the abolitionist John Brown.
~ Time period: will be the weeks leading up to Brown's infamous Raid on Harper's Ferry in October of 1859.
~ Our local Greencastle-Antrim area saw a great deal of activity on the Underground Railroad and the presentation will revolve around a warning to our local area to prepare for the flood of those seeking freedom in the wake of his raid.
~ Dobbs taught history at Broadfording Christian Academy for many years and has done extensive research into the life and times of Capt. Brown
~ Doug recently returned from a trip to John Brown sites in Kansas.

Two One-Room Schools of Antrim: Students of Canebrake & Hill Grove
~ Can you find a relative or friend or you?
~ The first three photographs are of Canebrake - the first from 1915-16, and then flash forward 35 years or so to the mid-1950s.
~ The Hill Grove photograph was taken 35 years ago at the 1984 reunion of Hill Grove alumni.
~ Do you have photographs of your parents, grandparents, or g-grandparents in front of any of the one-room schools in Antrim Township?
~ Can you supply any missing names in any of these phtographs?
~ If so, please PM this page or email [email protected].

~ Today, November 2, 2023 marks Frances Marion "Dolly" Harris Lesher's 178th birthday having been born in 1845.
~ Dolly is the "only known" Civil-War era Greencastle & Franklin County, and PA woman to be honored with "full military honors" upon her death February 17, 1906 because of her bravery in confronting the Confederates, as thousands of them passed by her home.
~ Dolly's descendants are certain she was named after Francis Marion - the Swamp Fox, who was a pre-Revolutionary and American Revolutionary War hero. Someone in the family was a history buff.
~ Dolly Harris' home was at 37 N Carlisle St, Greencastle.
~ Dolly tied a Union flag about her waist and as she waved the Union flag at them she called the Confederate soldiers "traitors and scoundrels and dared them to take the flag from her."
~ Knowing the danger of her actions, Dolly hid a dagger in the pocket under her Civil War skirt.
~ Dolly is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery in "Chambersburg." It is located north off of Route 30, a block or two west of the square.
~ It is said the Rebel soldiers responded with the old Rebel yell:
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1860s Greencastle neighborhood schools.
*** The schools (N Carlisle, S Washington St, SW quadrant, and east of town on today's Rt 16) are highlighted in light pink. ***
~ Click on the image for a larger view.
~ If you currently live in Greencastle, which one of the schools would you have attended??
~ How times have changed & yet some things still remain...
~ 160 years ago on October 5, 1863, after the occupation of Antrim Township & Greencastle and three months after the Battle of Gettysburg, in-town schools opened.
***From the Greencastle Pilot; September 29, 1863; page 2
~ "Borough Schools. – The public schools of the Borough of Greencastle, will be opened on Monday morning, October 5th.
~ The following teachers have been selected, who will teach in the rooms named below:
Miss Alice A Haus, South West School House; Miss Anna Fleming, room in her father’s residence on North Carlisle street; Miss Jennie C. Davison, lower story of New School Building; Mr. I Y. Athenton, upper story of New School Building; Mr. John S. Pittenger, South East School House.
~ Parents would find it to the interest of their children to send them at the opening of the term instead of sending at different periods, from one week to three months afterward, as we know has generally been the case heretofore.
~ The pupil does not learn; teacher is blamed. Let the teacher be enabled to classify her/his scholars at the start, and then she/he will have a small chance to do something.
~ One more thing – parents and guardians should visit the schools in their respective districts frequently."
~ Just love the editorials of The Pilot's Editor

One of the town's toll houses & turnpike.
~ Yes! Greencastle also had toll gates on the Waynesburg, Greencastle, & Mercersburg Turnpike Road.
~ In 1908 this driver with one horse and a carriage would have been charged 7 cents to pass the pike into town, going west.
~ This photograph appeared in the Echo Pilot in June 1997. The late Seth and Gladys Dentler lived at 409 East Baltimore Street. The house literally sits on the edge of the sidewalk and it was one of the toll houses along the Waynesburg, Greencastle, & Mercersburg Turnpike Road in the late 1800s. It was on the eastern outskirts of Greencastle at that time.
~ Prior to this toll house, the toll house was located in the middle of the 200 block of East Baltimore Street, just east of Allison Street, as indicated on the 1868 map.
~ West of town, the toll house was located just east of the Conococheague Creek, on the south side of the WG&M Turnpike Road.
~ In the photograph, be sure to notice the "pike," i.e. - turn. pike.

The Hunters Full Moon is during October and can be seen this evening, Saturday, October 28, after sunset when the moon begins to rise.
~ Trivia question ~ have you ever heard of the Lunar Society (1765 to 1813) of Birmingham, England?
~ First known as the Lunar Circle
~ Who: Learned scientists, industrialists, artists, philosophers, physicians, botanists, clergy, and others who met monthly during the Age of Enlightenment, on (of course) the night of the Full Moon.
~ Why on Full Moon? It was an age of no street lights and the full moon provided extra light making it safer and easier to return home, especially after a long evening of discussion, dining, and cups overflowing with wine.
~ There were of course regular members and others who attended occasionally.
~ Most were from England but men from other countries were also included within the "circle" such as, Benjamin Franklin, after who Franklin County was named.
~ Others: Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestly, Josiah Wedgwood, Thomas Day, James Watt, Jonathan Stokes, William Small, James Keir, John Whitehurst, William Withering, Samuel Galton Jr, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, William Murdoch.
~ They called themselves "lunarticks," a play on words.
~ So, now you know!
~ Image of "Benjamin Franklin is by Jean-Baptiste Greuze" Licensed under Public Domain via Commons -
~ Image of the full moon is courtesy of Luc Viatour

One and two-room schools of Antrim Township
~ Located in the "southwest" quadrant of Antrim Township
~ From the State Line upward...
~ Middleburg - one of three, two-room school houses in Antrim
~ White Pine in Coseytown no longer stands. IF anyone has an old photograph of White Pine, AAMI would very much like the opportunity to scan the image for its digital files.
~ Greenmount- Greenmount Rd between Hykes Rd & Mason-Dixon Rd
~ Sunrise - at the corner of Worleytown Rd & Scar Hill Rd
~ Paradise - along Williamsport Pike at East Weaver Rd
~ Bushtown - once located immediately south of Exit 3 I81 going north, was razed several years ago. Gratefully, photographs were taken before demolition.
~ California - on Grant Shook Road
~ Pinefield - at the corner of West Weaver Rd and Worleytown Rd
~ All images except Middleburg & Bushtown, are thanks to Ron Oliver. "Thank you," Ron Oliver

Trick or Treat night at Allison-Antrim Museum
~ Thursday, October 26, 6 pm to 8 pm. (Date and time set by Greencastle Borough.)
~ Enter the spooky Irwin Museum house through the boxwood entrance (which faces the Catholic Church) and exit out the back hall door onto the ADA ramp on Ridge Avenue.
~ Rain date tomorrow, Friday, October 27, 6 pm to 8 pm.

Early Dental Care 😳
~ Tooth keys: Among the museum’s Carl Family Collection are three tooth keys.
~ They were used for extracting lower molars and upper and lower front teeth.
~ The molar tooth keys were used by placing the hinged sickle-shaped tooth clamp over the crown of the tooth at gum level, toward the tongue side, with the roller bar, at a right angle to the clamp, on the cheek side.
~ Leverage was then used to extract the tooth by rotating the roller bar and handle outward, toward the cheek side.
~ The universal instrument for removing teeth in the front of the mouth, both upper and lower, was used in a similar manner.
~ The front teeth were pried out with forward leverage, either up or down, toward the one holding the instrument.
~ You'll find these tooth keys among the Carl Family Medical Collection in the upstairs Medical Room in the Museum House.
~ Please bear in mind, there was no Novocain available.

Around Town - Mo's at 30 S Washington St. next to the old high school
~ Did you get to go home for lunch if you attended schools in town?
~ Owned by Merle and Genevieve "Gem" Hollinger.
~ It was a lunchtime and after-school hangout.
~ Unlike the Township schools, which gave the option of buying or carrying lunch, lunch was not served in the Greencastle schools, due to lack of facilities. Students carried lunch, went home, or ate at the local eateries.
~ Mo's also had two large rooms where students could practice the ballroom dances they were taught over lunchtime in the high school.
~ From several comments so far: The students are from the Class of '47. Mabel Negley Johnson is in front holding books; Mary Ann Harsh is left of Mabel; right of Mabel are Doris Bowman and possibly Doris Harris, far right.
~ From 1956 to 1960, J. Nevin and Leola "Ollie" Bitner owned the business. There was an existing sign with the name Campus Retreat. The family lived upstairs and after Campus Retreat closed, continued to live in the house for a total of 44 years. Hamburgers & hot dogs were sold at lunch and Mr. Bitner made the ice cream, including orange-pineapple, black cherry, and grape nut. The person who worked the soda fountain also pumped gas from the Sunoco pump outside the store.
~ Do you know any of these students?
~ What are your memories?
~ The photograph was courtesy of Gladys Oaks McCrae for the Greencastle-Antrim Revisited pictorial history book number two in 2007.
~ Those known in the photograph: John Garland Sharp-second from left at very top; John Koons-second from right in the front row; Gladys McCrae-far right in front row.

Potter's Restaurant was a well-known eating establishment for many decades.
~ Its first location was left of the Mason-Dixon Truck Terminal doors, also known as Hicks Chevrolet, which is in the second photograph.
~ Later Potter's moved to the square in town and then to South Carlisle Street.

The Rocky Mountains are...rocky.
~ So why are the Blue Ridge Mountains blue when trees are green?
~ The BRMs are blue because of the the green trees and other plants of green, which give off a compound called isoprene.
~ In the BRMs, there are significant temperature fluctuations (stresses) from night to mid-day that directly affect the leaves of trees and plants in the BRM.
~ "Isoprene is incorporated into and helps stabilize cell membranes in response to heat stress. Upon being released, isoprene interacts with other molecules in the air, creating the distinctive haze that’s come to distinguish the Blue Ridge Mountain range from so many others around the globe; it’s not that trees in other places don’t emit isoprene, but they typically do not release the chemical in **as high of a rate** as trees in this particular region (BRM) of the country do."
~ "And"...the Great Smoky Mountains aren't smoky either. The "smoke" that wafts through the valleys of the GSMs are also caused by natural plant emissions (volatile organic compounds) and isoprene gives the "smoke" its blue haze.
~ We here in Franklin County are blessed to live in the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains that extend 550 miles southwest from southern PA.
~ So now you know!