Late today yet another old postcard became available on ebay.
This postcard (c. 1907) looks on to First Avenue from the south from about where Second or Third Avenue are today looking through what would be the parking lot next to the new Seawell grocery store.
Prominent in the picture is the Parkesburg Arms Hotel (left of center), apparently under construction, the same building pictured in the Parkesburg Yesterday post earlier this morning.
The H. K. Dorsheimer publisher noted in the bottom left hand corneris the man who built and operated the Arms beginning in 1908.
Just to the left of the Arms one can see the top of a trolley car heading east.
The large building at the top of the hill just to the right of the Arms is the Parkesburg School House which housed grades K-12 until the Octorara Area School District was founded in the late 1950's.
Link to the auction on ebay and bid on a piece of Parkesburg's history. As of late Saturday afternoon one bidder has placed a bid of $9.99.
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