WHITNEY BROS. LIVERY STABLE…

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(Owl Chrysler-Plymouth Jeep Eagle). Originally, this 

As noted by the historical marker, this building is important to the 

building was Whitney Bros. Livery Stable. Horace T. and George H.  Whitney built this stone building in 1877. A previous building had been destroyed by fire. Local citizens rented a horse and carriage from Whitney’s much the same as we would call a taxi today.

town as the place where  the “Boom for Lincoln” was masterminded by Horace Greely, Simon Cameron and other influential political leaders of the era. This was the law office of W. H. Dimmick, whose family mansion is now the Park Hotel.

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This magnificent example of simple Victorian architecture 

One of the country’s first monuments to the Civil War dead  was

is the recently restored home of George Whitney, who was a major in the 11th Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania. Old timers remember Major Whitney leading every parade in Honesdale on a snow white charger kept for that purpose in Whitney Bros livery stables.

dedicated  to Pennsylvania Governor John W. Geary, September 9, 1869. The money for the memorial was raised by the Ladies Aid Society.

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The protestant Episcopal church of Honesdale, had it’s origin in 1832 at Forbes Hotel, now the site of Hotel Wayne. The lot now occupied by the present church building was given by 

The building was originally built as a home by B.J.Dimmick, ex-mayor 

of Scranton in the 1860’s. In 1919 it was purchased and converted into the Wayne Memorial Hospital. The purchase price was $10,000. As a hospital, it accommodated 36 patients and 9 babies. The new hospital was built at the corner of Park and West streets in 1951.

the D & H Canal Co. and a new church was erected there in September, 1834. Later, that church was replaced by the present one which was completed in 1854. The Parsonage was built in 1876. In the summer of 1879, a spire was erected in the memory of Zenas H. Russell, one of the churches founders, by his family. In 1883, a tragic fire destroyed the interior of the church. The parish house on Church Street was dedicated in 1950.