The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-10-05


They are always so styled in the
laws Incorporating them, but for
brcvity's sake they are common.
ly called "turnpikcs. These
facts may be known to many
readers of PUBLIC OPINION, but
to others they may perhaps be
new.
Now let us plant ourselves at
the west side Of the Diamond in
Chambersburg and start for Bed
ford, and see how many Tayerns
and former Taverns we can "spot
out" as we go and count up at
the end of our journey. On our
left whore the Central church
stands, was the 'Franklin Hotel, 5"
the eastern end of a block of
thrce-story brick buildingswhich
extended from the Diamond
westward to the alley. The block
was built by a company and fin
ished in 1881, at which time, and
for fifteen on sixteen years there
after, the hotel was kept by JOS
eph Culbcrtson; after him by
Martin Newcomer, Colonel Ell
linger Joseph Alsip and William
G. McNulty. (This was the first
public house, and for many years
the only one, in this section, l
think, which adopted the French
name Of Hotel.) On our right,
whore the Valley Spirit is loca-
ted, was the Golden Lamb, built
by Stephen Regler, an old man
well known to me when | was II
boy, and kept by j. Wunderlich
in 1872, (how much earlier l do
not know,) and afterward long
owned and kept by John Noel.
On the southwest corner Of Mar
ket street and the short alley
leading back to the brewery, Ben
jamin Winters kept tavern sew
cral years only, in good brick
house owned by himself, some
time, | think, between 1882 and
1886.
West Of the Market street
bridge was Welsh's, the great
wagon tavern, kept by George
Ashway, afterwards by eX-Sher-
if Runion Elliott, later (about
1880 by Henry Mccall, a son-in-
law of Elliott's, and still later by
Daniel Trostle, John Riley and
John Miller. On the northwest
corner of Market and Franklin
streets, where Il Mr.. McCracken
had a store and residence low
down in "the thirties," William
McGrath, who was Sheriff from
1889 till 1862, kept tavern a few
years. Mcclure kept at the West
Point in the carly "thirties, and
either just before or just after
being there he kept tavern where
Henry Greenawalt since resided
so many years, where the Warm
spring road joins the turnpike.
A number OF years later Jacob
Eby kept tavern in the long brick
house u short distance beyond
the Greenawalt. That house al
ways looked like an old tavern,
but | do not recollect it as such
prior to Mr.. Eby's time. The
next, perhaps two miles farther,
was Josiah Aliens, purchased by
one Of the Coble's and converted
into Il private residence. Then,
beyond Back creek, William Brat
ten, one of the best known land
lords along the road, kept a brick
house on the north side for q
long period Of years. Old "Billy"
hung on to life and to tavern
keeping till long after his big
sign-post had rottad off, and, re-
duced in height, had been carried
across the road and lashed to the
fence. A mile on so west of Brat
tens was Coble's, brick house
ON the south side Of the road.
| recall no tavern between Co
ble's and st. Thomas. In this
town | remember four-Seller's,
Treher's, Bowermaster's and
Brindle's. What other names
may have been connected with
them | do not know. Beyond st.
Thomas | recollect none till
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