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Coudy- Lymansville- PC Journal 19330119 FB180326LN

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Lanny Nunn?Potter/McKean County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
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Potter County Journal January 19, 1933
-WAY BACK WHEN-
by H.W.N.
Remember the old East Second street, then called the Lymansville Road- beginning with the Keystone Grist Mill, which was run by a 14-foot double overshot water wheel? Knox and Jones built it back in the fifties. Some of the old millers were
- David Wambold,
- John Ormerod,
- William F. Junge,
- George Ross,
- Sam Copeland,
and the wheat flour was bolted with a silk bolt and the bread was black when baked, but it was very sweet and fine. Mr. Canfield was one of the first millers.
Then came on the North side of the road the house of John Grom, then James Pearsall and Chris Zimmerman and Mathias Schmidt and Harlow Dingee. Then Obidiah Merrill, then Mrs. Grave.
On the South Side, the "lightning splitter" where George Hoffman lived. The "Bee Hive," formerly the Sash and Blind shop of Orlando and Burt Rees; the Bill Dingman's and Swymour Nortons, Walter Abson, Henry Schilderberger, J.M. Spafford. Then the old up-and-down sawmill with its water wheel at Lymansville.
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Whiskey could be bought for three cents a drink of old Noble Howland, who kept tavern. Mr. Howland had a pair of elks that he drove for a team and would drive to Dansville, NY. where the canal came from Rochester, to get his goods. He was grandfather of our County Commissioner, Frank Howland.
The water supply for nearly all of the residents I have mentioned near the "Bee hive" was the old watering trough. Everybody got water there- except those who went to Chris Zimmerman's brewery for beer. Chris was an old time German brewer and the brewery stood on the north side of the road between his house and the watering trough.
One other old time place, the old tannery on Woodlawn avenue. William Shear ran it 60 years ago; Gay Cornelius, Chris Zimmerman and John Calkins were some of the employees.

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