Objects and Ephemera
Structures and Homes Comprising Myersville, 1873. This plat is from Titus Atlas of Frederick County. On it can be seen the 1796 tavern ("A. Poffinberger") with the Joseph Brown store beside it; the home of businessman and Maryland State Representative Upton Burhman; the carriage shop of John T. Hildebrandt ("Wg. Sh.") that would soon catch fire and also burn St. Paul's Lutheran Church next door; the United Brethren Church parsonage ("U.B. Parsonage"), the home of the widowed Catharine Shank Linebaugh ("Mrs. Linebaugh") whose husband, wagonmaker and wheelwright Jonathan Linebaugh, died in 1864; and others.
Wolfsville in 1873. This plat is from the Titus Atlas of Frederick County.
Schoolmaster's bell from the Old Harmony School. This bell was donated to the historical society by Mary Clark Leatherman in loving memory of her husband, Carroll Feete Leatherman, Jr. Students would have heard it rung each day to mark the beginning of classes.
Advertisement for John W. Hoover's Store at the Hoover House, Circa 1895-1900.
Postcard Addressed to Nellie Johnson of Church Hill, Circa 1900.
Offering Card from St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1899. This card was signed by town merchant and bank president George Waters Bittle.
Letter from C. C. Stottlemyer, 12 July, 1906. Stottlemyer and his family made the renown and sought-after Stottlemyer chairs in the small Wolfsville workshop at bottom right.
"My Dear Son, I will drop you a few lines. We are all well and I hope you are well and getting along all right. We have been looking for a letter from you. We have not got the mail today yet.
"I wrote to a firm in Baltimore to see if I could get a small planer and band saw. They wrote back that they had a planer and saw. I will enclose their letter and if you can go see them I want you to see what for looking machines they are and what is the price and tell them that I want the saw to saw out rockers and arms for my chairs. The planer I want to plane the backs -- something that will plane to a regular thickness and plane Smooth.
"It must ... a foot or more all the better. Just so I can run it with my engine. You can tell then all about what I want it for. If you think they have what I want it for then I will be down in a week or two.
"If have not written yet be sure to write by return mail and give us the news. No more at present as almost mail time. Yours truly,
C. C. Stottlemyer"
"My Dear Son, I will drop you a few lines. We are all well and I hope you are well and getting along all right. We have been looking for a letter from you. We have not got the mail today yet.
"I wrote to a firm in Baltimore to see if I could get a small planer and band saw. They wrote back that they had a planer and saw. I will enclose their letter and if you can go see them I want you to see what for looking machines they are and what is the price and tell them that I want the saw to saw out rockers and arms for my chairs. The planer I want to plane the backs -- something that will plane to a regular thickness and plane Smooth.
"It must ... a foot or more all the better. Just so I can run it with my engine. You can tell then all about what I want it for. If you think they have what I want it for then I will be down in a week or two.
"If have not written yet be sure to write by return mail and give us the news. No more at present as almost mail time. Yours truly,
C. C. Stottlemyer"
Promotional Calendar Distributed by Walter C. Rowe, Printer and Stationer, 1910. Rowe would later become a railway lineman and run other side businesses. Owned by Dick Phelps.
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CTS Tomolene Salve Tin, Circa 1910. This medicinal salve was produced by Eureka Specialty Company of Middletown. This tin is completely full of the original product, which the reverse promotes as a valuable remedy for chapped skin, burns, sores, cuts, boils, poison ivy, and other ailments. Owned by Ann Longmore-Etheridge.
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Postcard to Nellie Pettingall, April 1911. The unsigned card reads, "How is old Myersville these cold days. She looks good to me. You ought to be here now. Skating is just fine. Oh you Feb 22nd. I wonder where I will spend it this year. Best Regards. 4-12-11." Nellie Pettingall lived on Main Street in 1911. Born in 1888, she was the daughter of Samuel H. Pettingall (1848-1929) and Amanda C. Poffenberger (1850-1931). She married steel mill worker W. Clyde Raines, who may well have been the author of this postcard. She was a graduate of Hood College and taught in Frederick County schools for a number of years. Nellie and Clyde had one son, William P. Raines. Nellie died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 18 February, 1970. Clyde died in 1976. Both are buried at Mt. Zion Church Cemetery. Owned by Ann Longmore-Etheridge.
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United Brethren Rally Day Postcard, October 1917. This postcard was sent to Helen Keller and family, Myersville, MD, on 30 October, 1917. Rally Days are held as a new start or a renewed effort in involving children, youth, and adults in Sunday School. Owned by Ann Longmore-Etheridge.
Promotional Calendar Distributed by George W. Bittle's Store, Main Street, Myersville, Circa 1915. Owned by Dick Phelps.
Promotional Card for the Basket Shop, Circa 1918. This business was run my Walter Calvin Rowe, probably as a side business, as the 1920 Census records that Rowe was a railroad lineman who lived on Old Hagerstown Road. Owned by Dick Phelps.
Left: Walter C. Rowe's obituary, Frederick News, 12 March, 1973. |
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Below: Original Myersville Savings Bank Sign. This sign hung outside the Main Street building now more commonly referred to as Grossnickle Insurance Company. Owned by Dick Phelps.
Right: Myersville Savings Bank in about 1915. 
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A receipt from the George Wayers Bittle Store, probably 1920s.
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Postcard to C. A. Ruppersberger, Jr., Postmarked 6 January, 1923. The reverse reads: "Dear Sweet Heart, do what this verse says as soon as possible. Grand Mother."
Right: Promo Card of Car Salesmen Brandenburg & Harne, 1925.
Yearbook for the Woman's Club of Myersville, 1926-1927. "Club Colors: Yellow and White; Club Flower: Daisy; Motto: Labor Conquers Everything. Officers: President -- Mrs. D. Edgar Bittle; Vice President -- Mrs. W. E. Hauver; Secretary -- Miss Mary Muck; Treasurer -- Miss Effie J. Dean." Courtesy Middletown Valley Historical Society.
Advertisement from the Hagerstown Morning Herald, 31 March, 1949.
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Promotional Memorabilia from Guy C. Kline, Myersville Tractor and Farm Equipment Retailer, Circa 1945. Owned by DIck Phelps.
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Left: Matchbook Cover, Peoples Supply Company, Myersville, Circa 1960. Peoples Supply also ran gas pumps. This matchbook promotes Amoco products sold by the store. Owned by Mark Etheridge.