The Good Old Days

More information about each of these photographs,
and many more photographs and news articles,
are available at towandahistory.org.
 

The original Towanda Railway Depot, which
stood from around 1852 to at least 1920

1883 photograph of the G. W. Howard Building
(originally called the Roadnight Building) on Main
Street in Towanda.  The Roadnight Building was
built in 1854 and destroyed by fire in 1900.

Family photograph of the children of Abraham Jones
with their wives, taken around 1885.  Nelson Jones
is seated in the middle of the photograph.

1894 Towanda Elementary Class

Lormor & Cash Store and Post Office
in Towanda in 1896

Log cutting around 1900 in the timber south
of Money Creek belonging to Abraham Jones

 Photograph of horse drawn buggy, taken around 1900.
Notice that the horse appears to have only three legs.
Evidently the horse was moving one of his rear legs too
rapidly for it to be captured in the photograph.

Example of the 'Penny Pictures' that were taken by itinerant
photographers in the Towanda area between 1906 and 1910

Samantha Arthur in front of her Washington Street residence in 1907

1907 photograph of Main Street in Towanda from left to right
shows: G. D. Foster Grocery, J. H. Pumphrey' s Blacksmith
Wheelwright Shop, Macy Residence and Hotel and Macy Drug Store.

J. H. Pumphrey Blacksmith & Wheelwright Shop
on Towanda's Main Street in 1910

Towanda Cornet Band in 1910

An unidentified young woman playing a musical instrument
outdoors in a fenced yard, around 1910.

 Sachs family spending a typical Sunday afternoon
relaxing in a swing in their yard, around 1910.

This photograph of an open air revival meeting was taken in the
pre-World War I era. Church pews had been moved outside.
Notice that the men are sitting in the front rows of pews, and the
women are sitting behind, as was customary during that time.

Celebration in the village park, date unknown.

Towanda independent baseball team in early 1920's

Towanda High School around 1930. The school building
was constructed in 1913 with an addition of a gymnasium
and classrooms in 1932. The building was used as a high
school until 1948, and then as an elementary school until the
1990-91 school year when the two-story building was
demolished and the 1932 addition became part of a
new elementary school that reopened in 1991.

Construction of two additional lanes on Route 66 in 1954

Fern's Café along Route 66 on Towanda's west side in 1954