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Mrs.Hall, standing on the porch of her house on Laurel Ave. in Damascus

Brief biographical sketch of the Hall family (c. 1900).
Initial Charter of Incorporation for the Town of Damascus, August, 1904

Newspaper article describing the early history of Damascus.

Brief historical sketch of Rambo family. According to Mrs. Hall among the earliest settlers in Damascus. Accompanying image shows the Rambo family's log home, site of the earliest Post Office in Damascus.

Image showing Mock's Chapel (Lutheran Church)

Describes early history of the Methodist Church in Damascus. Photo of the Methodist Church, built in 1903.

The Damascus Enterprise Company, of which General Imboden was head, helped to organize the Abingdon Coal and Iron Railway Company with the purpose of bringing a railroad from Abingdon to the lumber lands near Damascus.

About 1912, people who came to Thayer Company, Smethport Extract Co., and Damascus Lumber Co., and others went on a picnic up the Laurel via the narrow gauge train.

"Before 1900 there was only one store in Damascus, a general store opened about 1893 by Mack Wright on the lot where the N.S.Wright store stands now."

"About the time the war ended children in this section were attending the old Laurel school, just started in a one room log house that stood where the Kestner house is built west of the Lincoln plant. This school was also a subscription school."