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History of "Our Walking Tour"
Background
The tour was
first started as a school program with the 1995-96 class of 3rd
graders. The teachers were Nancy Brown & Sandra McDowell of Leib
Elementary. The students were so interested in the project that it was
continued until 2005 when Mrs. Brown & Mrs. McDowell retired and due to
the time demands of standardized testing, the teachers could not fit it
into their schedules.
This site was last updated
05/29/13
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Where is Dover? |
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Dover is
located in Pennsylvania |
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Dover is
located in York
County |
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Welcome to Dover,
Pennsylvania 17315 |
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Our
Walking Tour
Starts Here
(Click on "Starts Here" to begin tour,
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1st Stop |
The Blacksmith Shop
Located on Butter Road in
Alda Ketterman Park |
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The Blacksmith
Shop was torn down at its original location on Butter Rd. in 2003, and
after a lot of volunteer hours and sore knees, it was rebuilt and
completed in 2006 at the Alda Ketterman
Park. The final touch for the Blacksmith Shop was the hanging of the
sign over the door for the dedication of the shop along with the park on
June 2, 2007.
The blacksmith was a
popular and essential occupation. The blacksmith shoed horses and made
equipment for the farmers and utensils for the women. The pictures below
are of Harry Neiman’s shop.
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2nd
Stop |
Dover
Borough Office Council Building
Located at 46 Butter Road
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Proceeding down
Butter Rd., the second stop on the tour is 46 Butter Rd., the Dover
Borough Office Council Building.
This building was previously the
Band Hall for the Dover Band, a community band. Sylvan Tate Strayer, grandfather of
borough resident Kay Stitley, played the trombone in the band. Later
Faith Tabernacle, a Pentecostal church, occupied the building for seven
to eight years before it was purchased by the Borough in 1974. |
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3rd Stop |
Former
Site of the Blacksmith Shop
Located behind 64 N. Queen Street
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Next on Butter Rd.,
behind the house on the corner of 64 N. Queen Street, is the former site
of the Blacksmith Shop, now a vacant lot.
The shop originally stood
on the corner of Butter Road and Queen Street, Harry Neiman had
rolled back to the adjoining lot on Butter Road and built the
Sears & Roebuck house that currently at
64 N. Queen Street. During the winter of 2003, due to heavy
snow, the Blacksmith Shop's roof collapsed. Mrs. Donald Kann,
the current owner, donated the building to the Greater Dover
Historical Society Society members dismantled the the structure
that same year, stored the lumber for two years and then
proceeded to build at the current location. On May 21, 2005 the
framing of the building was completed with the help of many
volunteers. Mr, Ben Brown supervised the project. Progressive
Services of Dover, PA donated the standing seam roof. Don Miller
of Penn Snyder Construction Built the forge and Jonathan Arn of
Better Builders, Inc. built the chimney. Glen-Gery Brick donated
all the brick for the forge, sidewalk, and floor.
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4th
Stop |
Located at
61 N. Main
Street
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Then on to the
corner of
Butter Rd. and
61 N. Main St. which
in early years was a busy place.
There were two grocery stores and
the candy and bakery store. These stores carried canned and bottled
goods, all grocery items, oils for lanterns, fabrics, clothing, shoes
and hardware items. In the 1800’s, the building at 61 N. Main St. was a
mercantile store owned by Oliver M. Stouch and his family. The store
offered some clothing, a little hardware, some shoes, and lantern oil.
The shop keeper sold fabric for dresses as many of his customers made
their own clothing. Mr. Stouch kept a record of daily events for thirty
years.
(Mr. Stouch’s diaries document many
events that happened in Dover Borough. Oliver Stouch emigrated from
Germany; keeping a personal diary was a way for him to learn to read and
write the English language.)
Jay Stouch, a great- grandson of Oliver
Stouch and a current resident of Lititz, PA, gave permission to have
these diaries transcribed by the Society and to be made available for
purchase in the future as a fund raiser. |
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5th Stop |
Located at 67-69 N. Main
Street
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Otterbein Church at
67-69 N. Main St.
was built in 1851, was the
first church in Dover Borough and has had two additions over the years.
Originally the church had two front doors; Gentleman entered on the
right (On entering the Gentleman's door there was a 'cellar door' on the
left.) When J.E.B. Stuart and
his troops came through Dover during the Civil War, the townspeople hid
their whiskey in this space for safe keeping. This
church is now occupied by the Rescue Mission. The congregation later moved into a new church on Emig
Mill Rd., across from the Leib Elementary School, Weigelstown, PA.
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6th
Stop |
Located at 98 N. Main
Street
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At 98 N.
Main St. is the site of what was thought to be the first school in
the borough. One of the first teachers in the community was John Peter Streher. In 1881 a building fire burned a hole in the roof; this event
was documented by Oliver Stouch in his diary. If you look closely, you
can still see the stone wall and gate that were around the school at
that time. At one time the owners of the house, while digging by their
patio, came upon a headstone buried in the yard. Some residents report
hearing noises of things being moved around in this house. This area was
also known as Cherry Hill as everyone in this location at that time had
cherry trees. |
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7th Stop |
Located at 92 N. Main Street
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Built in 1866, 92 N.
Main St. was believed to be the oldest house in Dover Borough but since
then, further discoveries have indicated otherwise. The house across the
street at 81 N. Main St. or the one at 30 N. Main St. could be older
houses as they are both known to be of log construction. In the process
of researching older houses, an interested borough resident found that
the house at 4 S. Main St. which houses Taylor’s Treasures is also made
from logs and could be another candidate for the oldest house in Dover. |
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8th
Stop |
Located at the Rear of 82 N. Main
Street
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At the rear of 82 N.
Main St. was a sewing factory that made women’s and children’s dresses in the
1940’s and later became LeRay Sportswear.
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9th Stop |
Located at
54 N. Main
Street
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54 N. Main St. was
the home of Grass’s Candy & Bakery Shop. The ovens were located to the
rear of the house in a small unattached building. |
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10th
Stop |
54 1/2 N. Main Street
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Cellar Doors |
54 1/2 N. Main
Street was Aughenbaugh’s Store. Food, candy, soda, shoes, boots,
hardware, ribbon, and lamp oil were sold here. Under the porch behind
the lattice work is a metal ring that was used to tie up horses and a
piece of metal that was used to scrape the mud from boots. Right next to
the porch in a separate building are cellar doors which at one time
served as a coal chute. |
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11th
Stop |
Located at 48-50 N. Main
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A building behind
the property shown below at the corner of Mayfield & 48-50 N. Main St.
housed Hershey’s Bakery. It is no longer standing.
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12th Stop |
Located at 44 N. Main
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The Dover Garage at
44 N. Main St. was the livery stable where travelers passing through
Dover from as far away as Baltimore and Philadelphia would stop to pick
up a horse or horse and carriage. Dover was the end of the line for the
street car from York, PA. The next building at 38 N. Main St. was the
site of the National House Hotel. The house that stands here now was
built using the stone from the old hotel. |
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14th Stop |
Located at 41 &
43 N. Main
Street |
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Across the street at
41 &
43 N. Main St. was a
general store then known as Daron’s of
Dover where the proprietors sold beautiful
dishes along with fabric, thread and household items.
Mr. Artzberger
bought the building and ran a restaurant there for many years. His
daughter and her husband bought the restaurant which subsequently became
Butch Myer’s Pool Hall as well as a restaurant. Patrons played pool and
cards in a room at the rear. A food bar occupied the left side of the
building. When a couple ordered sodas, the lady would get the straw and
the gentleman had to drink out of the bottle. |
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15th Stop |
Located at
36 N. Main
Street
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Dr. Lewis Herrold
and Dr. Nathan G. Wallace, both general practitioners, lived in the next
house at 36 N. Main St. Dr. Wallace opened his Dover practice in 1883.
He was a well to do man. When he passed away, he left his money in trust
to be used in the service of the community of
Dover. Most notably, Dr.
Wallace donated the money for the bell at the Calvary Lutheran Church. |
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16th Stop |
Located at
35 N. Main
Street
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The Ray Bitting
Insurance agency has occupied the building at 35.
N. Main St. since
1988. It had once been used as a hatter’s shop. A butcher shop once
stood on the site behind the house. |
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17th Stop |
Located at
29 N. Main
Street
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Circa 1912
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29 N. Main
St. was owned by David Brillhart. In 1912 he operated The Oyster
Parlor in this building and in the same year connected it to a
factory for making hosiery which he operated for several years.
The factory made stockings for both men and women. |
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18th
Stop |
Located at
28 N. Main
Street
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The next stop at 28
N. Main St. is now a flower shop. In 1954 it was owned by Leroy Walton
and served as a cigar factory. After the cigar factory closed, it was
occupied by a jewelry store, then Dave’s Shoe Store and finally,
currently, the Golden Carriage flower shop.
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19th Stop |
Located at
20 N. Main
Street
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Susie Latshaw lived
at 20 N. Main St. and sold Larkin’s products ranging from soap to
packaged food to household products. She was the first person in town to
sell pudding and Jell-O. Susie was known to use a broom to chase off
anyone caught trespassing on her property. If nothing else, young
trespassers learned to respect the property of others.
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20th Stop |
Located at
21 N. Main
Street
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21 N. Main St, currently the home
of Pizza Express, it was once the home of Dellinger’s Motors,
and Crone’s Furniture Store where at one time P. A. Lauer was the town
undertaker and a furniture maker. At Christmas time the windows were
decorated with toys, including an American Flyer train displayed under
the huge Christmas tree. In the late 1800’s there was a buggy shop in
the rear of the building and also a blacksmith shop. |
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21st Stop |
Located at
10 - 14 - 16 N. Main
Street
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Holtzapple's Grocery |
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York
Bank & Trust |
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Kelly
Transit |
In the lot that is occupied
by part of Kelly Transit was Holtzapple’s grocery store at
16 N. Main St. At
14 N. Main St. was a residence and post
office and later the home of Lankford Insurance Agency. From
about 1929 and for the next 26 years or so, the building was the
home of three former Dover postmasters: J. William Strayer,
William Lauer and Edison Brown. The house was demolished in 1982
to make way for a new Dover branch of the York Bank & Trust Co.
The previous York Bank’s Dover office building was built in 1924
and was razed around 1982. The later bank building now houses
Kelly Transit.
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22nd Stop |
Located at
9 N. Main
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Across the street at
9 N. Main St. is Calvary Lutheran Church. This church is 107 years old,
one of the oldest churches in the borough. It was built in 1900 at a
cost of $8000. The bell in the church tower was donated by Dr. Samuel
Wallace of the noted Wallace family. The clock was bought by the Dover
citizens.
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23rd Stop |
Located at
5 N. Main
Street
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Next at 5 N.
Main St. is the Englehart Melchinger house which is listed on the
National Register of Historic places. The building’s architecture is in
the Italianate Greek Revival style. Englehart Melchinger was a prominent
19th c. businessman who acquired personal wealth through a
number of successful business pursuits. During the Civil War, in July of
1863, J.E.B. Stuart used this home for his office during his brief stay
in Dover. It has been reported this house was once part of the
underground railroad.
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24th Stop |
Located at
6 N. Main
Street
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6 N. Main St. was Dr. John Ahl’s office
where he cared for wounded Civil War soldiers. This building has also
served as a drug store and a post office.
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25th Stop |
Located at
1 N. Main
Street
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1 N. Main St. is
currently the site of Laird’s Security Vault and was the site of the
first separate post office building in the Dover Borough. Previously,
post offices were located in private homes. Mail came to the post office
by horse and wagon. B & S Racing Collectibles, CC Kottcamp and Detter’s
TV Shop later occupied this building. |
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26th Stop |
Located at
2 S. Main
Street
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Across the square at
2 S. Main St. is Botterbusch Jewelry Store. In the early 1800’s, at the
rear of this building, Peter Wiest opened a store. In 1843 during a
terrible snow storm, a fire broke out destroying Mr. Wiest’s
merchandise. During this fire the tavern located across the square also
burned. Persevering in spite of this tragedy, Mr. Wiest eventually moved
his business to
York and started the P.
Wiest Department Store located on
W. Market St. just off
the square. |
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27th Stop |
Located at
4 S. Main
Street
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1885 Harnes Shop
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At 4 S. Main St.,
now Taylor’s Treasures, a log home housed W. H. Linebaugh’s Store, a
soda fountain and restaurant. In 1977 it housed Ernst Pharmacy, followed
by the 3 C’s Coin Shop in the 1980’s whose owner, Bill Neuhaus, was
murdered during a robbery there.
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28th Stop |
Located at
11 S. Main Street
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East across the square
at 11 S. Main is Tom’s Mobil Station where, on the corner, once stood
the Blue Bell Market. In the parking area in front of the store, the
Morton Salt delivery man would would write in the parking lot with a box
of salt, “Morton was here.” Next door to the Blue Bell Market on S. Main
St. was the Hotel Dover. When Herbie Lewis purchased the Market
building, he opened up a Western Auto Store on the premises. This
structure was demolished and ultimately Tom’s Mobil Station came to
occupy the site. In the 1970 there was an Amoco gas station at this
location. This particular Dover Borough corner has undergone numerous
changes throughout the years.
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29th Stop |
Located at
23 S. Main
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1875
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Down the street at
23 S. Main St. is Baughman’s Memorial Service which has been in
operation since 1875. Harry Baughman’s residence stood where the flag
pole stands now. Harry’s son Nelson and his wife Edna lived at 23 S.
Main St. They carried on the business. |
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30th Stop |
Located at
31
& 33 S. Main
Street
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31
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Their son Donald and
their daughter Sharon now continue the business. Donald resides at 31 S.
Main St., and Sharon lives at 33 S. Main St., once a cigar factory.
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31th Stop |
Located at
44 S. Main
Street
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Before his retirement, 44 S. Main St. was
occupied by Dr. Blair English, a veterinarian. Annie Stambaugh, Dover’s
first telephone operator, worked out of this building. She used the old
time plug in switchboard. In 1938 she was given a permit to turn on the
siren when she received a call for a fire. In the other half of the
house, her mother had a millinery shop where all the women came to
purchase their hats. The house still has the big mirror on the wall and
the shelves where she displayed the hats. Cemented into the garage
foundation at the back of the house is a headstone which reads, “John
Henry Died Nov. 12 1853(?).Is this a true grave site? No one knows.
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32nd Stop |
Located at
50 S. Main
Street
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50 S. Main St. was the first
location of Emig Funeral Home, later moved to E. Canal Street, then to
its present location on 47 Queen St.
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33rd Stop |
Located at
54 S. Main
Street
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2008
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A headstone stands
in the back yard of the house at 54 S. Main St. It marks the resting
place of Clayton Berkheimer who, according to the marker, died July 30,
1891 at age 3 months. The marker may have been relocated here from a
cemetery, but no one is certain. |
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34th Stop |
Located at
56 S. Main
Street
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2005
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The chiropractor
office at
56 S. Main St. was once the site of
Quickel’s Supply Company, later purchased by Boyd Mundis who renamed it
Mundis Supply Company. People came here to sell their grain which in
turn it was sold. They also sold animal feed and coal. Later a
hardware store, lumber store yard and building glass area were added.
They also did millwork on site. After that a pizza shop operated a business
in the area of the hardware store until the building caught fire.
Then, a real
estate office and a soft pretzel shop where Laundromat currently does business. |
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35th Stop |
Located at
59 S. Main
Street
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Back across the
street at 59 S. Main St. was Anna and William Snelbecker’s Store which opened in 1929
during the depression. The owners traded goods in place of money and
gave credit when necessary. A variety of merchandise was available to
the customers. Anna Snelbecker was also in later years a reporter for
several newspapers and continued reporting the local news about Dover
and the vicinity until her death. Bill taught an adult education class
on stone masonry at the local high school and his students' projects can
be seen at the Dover Community Park on W. Canal St. The building also
served as a small as a small restaurant in the 1950's. Today it is an
apartment building.
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36th Stop |
Located at
W. Canal
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Proceeding up
Old Mill St. adjacent to the Laundromat then on to Reservoir Dr. to School Lane
and then to the driveway to the Dover High School on W. Canal St. This
is the location of 46 W. Canal St. which was the site of the three room school.
This building was torn down to make way for an expansion of the
High School. The 1st
and 2nd grades were in one room, 3,4,5 in
another, and 6 and 7 in the third room. There were outhouses in the rear
of the lot. One for the teachers, one for girls and one large
one for boys. During the summer a "block party" was held
with water melon slices for sale and soda in bottles were both
iced in a large horse trough.
The original high school was built in
1928-1930 and partially torn down in the late 1950's. Additional
remodeling was done in 1960 and 2005.
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37th
Stop |
Located at
81 W. Canal
Street
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Across from the
school at 81 W. Canal St. is Dover Tax Service and KT’s Pizza where the
former Decker’s Meat Market and Locker store was located. In the summer
customers would appear on the street with coats and gloves to enter the
cold storage locker for which they paid a rental fee for freezer space.
Students frequented the store at lunch time, but following a serious car
accident nearby involving a student during the lunch period, the school
instituted closed lunches. The sharp curve (scene of the accident) by
the bridge was eliminated when the road was straightened. The original
road turns left at the western end of the bridge. |
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38th
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Located at
W. Canal
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On W. Canal St. is another old
church, the United Church of Christ.
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In back of the
church to the left between the church parking lot and Mayfield St. is a
small family cemetery. Frederick Stouch (Stough), his wife Eve and Daniel Stouch are
buried here. Frederick was a sergeant who served in the First Battalion
of the Sixty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania during the War of 1812. At
one time a unique and beautiful wrought iron fence framed the small cemetery.
Unfortunately, the Dover VFW sold the fence and replaced it with a cable
similar to those used by Penn Dot on state roads. The Greater Dover
Historical Society is trying to gain the rights to maintain the property
and replace the wire cable with a replica of the original fence. The
head stones were originally
standing, but when they cracked, they were placed flat in
the ground in cement.
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39th Stop |
Located at
15 and 17 W. Canal
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Traveling East on
W. Canal St. is the
site of the old Union Fire and Hose Fire Company at
17 W. Canal St. which
began operations in the fall of 1844.The company had a hand pumper
called “Old Mason” which it had purchased from the Vigilant Company of
York and which was in use until 1885. The Fire
House charter was dedicated in 1912; the company continued operations
here until 1953. Before the building served as a fire house, it was
George Strayer’s buggy shop.
At the rear of
15 W. Canal St. was another blacksmith shop which is no longer standing.
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40th Stop |
6 E. Canal
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Across the square at
6 E. Canal S., on a vacant lot and part of Tom’s Service Station parking
lot, was the site of the Jacob Joner Council. This was a three story
building which originally part of the Dover Hotel. It was for travelers
when the main hotel (located on the square) was rented to compacity. The Junior Order of United
American Mechanics came into being on Sept. 18, 1907. In 1913 the
council organized and equipped a “uniform rank” with forty-five
Springfield rifles at the cost of $1.50 each. Members from this group
who entered the World War I had some training using fire arms. The
council held their meetings on the second floor of the building.
A resident of Dover, Gayle Heagy’s
father, owned Emig’s funeral home once located here here in the 1940's
and 50's.
When citizens passed away, the family would have to move the furniture out of
the living room and dining room into small bedrooms, so the funeral
could be held in the living room. After the funeral concluded, the
furniture was moved back until before long, the space would be needed
once again and the process would repeat itself.
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41st Stop |
Located at
8 E. Canal
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At 8 E. Canal St. is Tiny Blessing Day Care Center, once the location of
a Western Auto Store and a bicycle shop.
Prior to that it was the garden/lawn
area of the Jacob Joner building.
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42th Stop |
Located at
29 E. Canal Street
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Next at 29 E. Canal
St. was Toomey’s Cigar Factory. Their cigars were sent all around the
world. Some tobacco used in the production of Toomey cigars was grown in
the York area. |
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43rd Stop |
Located at
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The old jail site is
located on the alley known as City Hall Drive. In 1904 the jail was
built by Hess Brothers. The Hess's celebrated its completion in a local
tavern on the square. They drank too much and ended up being the first
ones to be incarcerated in the jail house. The 3rd
grade class of Dover Elementary School (1995-1996) had its first walking tour along City Hall Drive
and was concerned that the site of the jail was unmarked. Within eight
months of its October visit, the class had saved enough money to buy a
marker. The marker has cracked over the years due to cold weather. It
has been replaced by a replica made by Baughman's Memorial Works. A small iron fence, forged by Theodore Ziegler
of Wellsville, PA, now surrounds the marker. During the 1940's and 50's,
the jail was used as a storage shed by the Dover Borough. The jail was
relocated by the children of Goldie and George Emig, owners of the
structures, to the
Dover Community Park along W. Canal Road. Dover Township built the
foundation and the Emig family had a Amish construction company move the
building. After it was placed on the foundation, the mortar was
repointed with a colored and style appropriate to it's time period.
Later, the Township received a grant from the Pennsylvania Historic and
Museum Commission to have the asphalt roof replaced with wood shingles.
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44th Stop |
Located at
City Hall Drive |
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The next building to
the south on City Hall Drive is where Mr. David Brillhart moved the
hosiery shop from Main St. At one time forty to fifty people
were hired to make men’s socks. The
employees would arrive for work at 5:00a.m., so they could get off
before it got hot in the afternoon. Nearby residents would be awakened
early in the morning by the humming of sewing machines.
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45th Stop |
Located at
37
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37
E. Canal St. was the site of the Keystone Creamery property which was
owned by Calvin Hoffman. Farmers brought in milk in eight gallon cans.
After the cream was removed, it was used to make butter. The skimmed milk
was sold for table use or to feed the animals. A dam and a pond with an outlet creek
were located behind the cremery. A lot of hockey games were played
on the pond. The farmers would cut ice from the pond for use in their
ice boxes. There was also an ice storage plant on the site. The ice
blocks were separated with saw dust to prevent them from sticking
together. The pond has been drained, but the creek can still be seen
running along side the Rutter’s store. In the 1960’s the former creamery
became Wineka Feed Service. Later the property was sold to David Laird
which he used for a antique store. |
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46th Stop |
Located at
Otterbein Cemetery |
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The Otterbein
Cemetery is located on E. Canal St., past the Y in the road and behind a
house on the left hand side of the street. The cemetery contains some
Rauhausers and Frysingers headstones.
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