The cover of the “Children’s Industrial Home ‘Benefit’ Cookbook”
Courtesy of The John B. Yetter Collection & the Penn State Cultural Center Archives
Joseph Meredith, the original manager of the store, was succeeded by W. E. Abercrombie. The store, at first, was entirely on the river side of the Pennsylvania Canal. Facing Locust Street, it was that part of the business that handled stoves, wood, tobacco and coal. The ‘main building was the grocery, general store, meat market, a warehouse and wagon shed. North of these (not shown on the photo) were a shed, a cold storage building, a slaughterhouse, and cattle pens. The “Company Store,” however, had no monopoly on the town’s business. By the mid-1880’s dozens of businesses were already operating in Steelton.
The side of the delivery truck reads: Steelton Store Co., Limited.
Courtesy of Steelton, Pennsylvania Stop-Look-Listen
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