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The Kistler Company Store, Taken Down in 1990

5. VIEW OF KISTLER COMPANY STORE AND SCHOOL BUILDING LOOKING NORTH. DEMOLISHED IN 1990. - Town of Kistler
5. VIEW OF KISTLER COMPANY STORE AND SCHOOL BUILDING LOOKING NORTH. DEMOLISHED IN 1990. - Town of KistlerLibrary of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record. No known copyright restrictions. pa2824.photos.038904p

Kistler was about as complete a company town as this region produced. The company built and kept up virtually every building in it, along with the roads, the water and the electric.

This was the store and school building. The federal photographer got there in time, because the caption on this negative carries four words that end the story: demolished in 1990.

Nothing further from the county histories. The six histories held here end in 1913 and this story belongs to 1990, so there is no passage in them that bears on it. Rather than attach an unrelated page and let it look like corroboration, this story stands on the sources listed below.

Sources

  1. LOC caption pa2824.photos.038904p (HABS PA-5976)
  2. HABS PA-5973 p.27

Checked 2026-09-05 · Historic Mount Union collection

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