The Millville Hotel, Columbia County Pa
The hotel stood at the corner of Main and State Streets.
"Eves Corner" on the square in Millville Pa, with the hotel, ivy covered, on the right.
Jacob Fry erected the L shaped two story hotel in 1861. It was operated by Bide Roy and C.R. Parker for a number of years, and then was purchased by Humphrey Parker.
Main Street Millville, with the hotel on the right.
In 1883 a group of men subscribed to the purchase of the hotel, forming the Millville Hotel Company. These men included: William Masters, A.P. Heller, John Eves, Ellis Eves, Chandler Eves, and Joseph W. Eves, all of Millville Pa.
State Street looking north, Hotel on the right.
Built in 1861, the hotel was razed to make way for a service station, in 1940.
According to a 1936 issue of the Bloomsburg Press Enterprise:
" The hotel a landmark in the Quaker borough was for years operated by Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey Parker. Mr. Parker operated a stage between Bloomsburg and Millville and for year during his management and also that of the 'hotel company which followed was a popular spot with summer vacationists Many Cuban youths in this country to be educated used to vacation at Millville' in the summer rather than return to their native land."
March 1923 - Millville Hotel Equipment Sale
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December 1, 1936
A barber was displaced for the building of the new post office. No mention is made, in the 1968 article, about a hotel once standing there.
My grandfather was the barber whose shop was displaced by the construction of the new post office. That was/is on the northeast corner of the intersection of routes 42 and 254, while the hotel was on the southeast corner.
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