Building & Business Histories — the Archive

Main Street has been rebuilt more than once — after the Great Fire of 1863, and business by business ever since. The Emmitsburg Area Historical Society has written histories of around 35 Emmitsburg buildings and businesses: stores, hotels, banks, workshops and the families who ran them.

Those articles are an archive. The businesses in them are history, not current listings — you will find today's trading businesses in our directory, and the Society's business histories, in full, in its index at emmitsburg.net — Building & Business Histories index. Titles in the index include the Emmitsburg Railroad, Ashbaugh Grocery Store, Frailey's Store and Frailey's Foundry, the Green Parrot Tea Room, the Gem Movie Theater, the town's drug stores, grocery stores, clock makers and mills, the fall of the Annan-Horner banking house, and Zurgable Brothers Hardware.