WE LOST A LONG TIME RESIDENT OF MAZEPPA THIS WEEK WITH THE PASSING OF MELVIN FINCK. PERSONALLY ONE OF THE TRULY GREAT NEIGHBORS I HAD DURING MY GROWING UP YEARS AND OF COURSE I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH KEITH.
HE SERVED IN THE AIR FORCE ( ARMY AIR CORPS ) DURING WW2 AND RETURNED TO GERMANY TO VISIT FRIENDS HE MADE THERE. THEN OF COURSE HAD HIS CONSTRUCTON AND SIDING BUSINESS. A MEMBER OF THE MAZEPPA UNION CHURCH. SURVIVING IS WIFE WANDA ALONG WITH HIS SON KEITH AND DAUGHTER KAREN. ALSO SURVIVING IS A BROTHER ROY........AND TWO SISTERS SHIRLEY DIEFFENDERFER AND PHYLLIS KEISER. HE WAS THE SON OF BLAIR AND KATHERINE FINCK.
( NOVEMBER 28 , 1928 - JUNE 27 , 2016 )
MEL WILL REALLY BE MISSED AND I WAS SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE KNOWN HIM AND CALLED HIM NEIGHBOR FOR SO MANY YEARS.
HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE BLOG I HAVE ON MY OLD HOMETOWN OF MAZEPPA. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TOWN IS AT THE END OF THIS PAGE. I DID AN ARTICLE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO ABOUT MAZEPPA THAT THE LOCAL PAPERS PRINTED AND WILL BE GLAD TO EMAIL THAT TO ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO READ IT.
I HAVE STARTED A FACEBOOK PAGE TO KEEP ALL OF THE PICTURES I HAVE OF MY OLD HOMETOWN. I ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM LINKING MY PHOTO ALBUM WITH THE BLOG AND DECIDED THIS WILL BE THE BEST AVENUE TO GO. SO IF YOU GO TO FACEBOOK AND TYPE IN......IMAGES OF MAZEPPA PA YOU WILL NOW FIND ALL OF THE PICTURES I ONCE HAD ON THIS BLOG. ALSO IF YOU HAVE PICTURES FROM THE MAZEPPA AREA THAT YOU CAN EMAIL TO ME I WOULD BE GLAD TO ADD THEM TO THE PHOTO ALBUM. SEND TO... mazeppa@ptd.net
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- DOUG WALTER
- HELLO MY NAME IS DOUG WALTER AND DECIDED TO SET UP A BLOG ABOUT MY HOMETOWN MAZEPPA, PA. SPENT MY GROWING UP YEARS IN THIS SLEEPY LITTLE TOWN. WE HAD THE DAIRY FARM ACROSS FROM JOHNSONS MILL. WENT TO BUFFALO CROSSROADS ELEMENTARY AND CREATED LOTS OF CAVITIES EATING CANDY AT AIKEYS STORE. MAZEPPA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME. mazeppapa.blogspot.com AND CHECK OUT THE BLOG SET UP FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP I STARTED IN 1997 FOR THE FFA KIDS AT MIFFLINBURG. robertawalter.blogspot.com OR SEARCH ROBERTA WALTER SCHOLARSHIP
2016 MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
MAZEPPA TECH GRADS IN THE 2016 MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
THE WW2 HONOR ROLL IS COMING BACK HOME TO MAZEPPA
ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE
NOW THE SOCIAL HALL
IF THIS ISN'T HEAVEN WHAT IS
ON MY LAST WADE OF 2010
MY FISHING BUDDIES
HOW COOL IS THIS PICTURE
THE PUPPET SHOW
MAZEPPA UNION CHURCH
MAZEPPA PARADE
2009
WADING BUFFALO CREEK IN MAZEPPA
ROBERTA WALTER SCHOLARSHIP
MAZEPPA HISTORY
MANY FOLKS WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT MAZEPPA HAS QUITE A BIT OF HISTORY. THE TOWN GOT IT'S NAME FROM LORD BYRON'S POEM
" MAZEPPA." ORIGINALLY NAMED BOYERTOWN AFTER THE FOUNDER SAMUEL BOYER AND HIS WIFE SARAH. A POST OFFICE WAS STARTED IN 1886 AND A NEW NAME WAS NEEDED AS THERE ALREADY WAS A BOYERTOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA. SCHOOLMASTER CLEMENT EDMUNDS SUGGESTED MAZEPPA AND IT WAS APPROVED. MAZEPPA MILLS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1788 AND STAYED IN OPERATION TILL 1981 WHEN EUGENE JOHNSON RETIRED. MILL WAS STARTED BY MICHAEL RENTSCHELER.
SEVERAL DOCTORS PRACTICED IN TOWN. DR S. ASHER DIEFFENDERFER LIVED ON THE WENDELL STAHL FARM. DR ISSAC FETTEROLF PRACTICED OUT OF THE GARMAN HOME IN THE CNETER OF TOWN.
FRANK STRAUB WAS THE MORTICIAN. A TRADITION WAS WHEN THE PERSON WAS REMOVED FROM THE HOME THE CHURCH BELL WOULD TOLL.
MILTON REMALY WAS A PIANO REPAIRMAN.
JACOB DELCAMP WAS A BLACKSMITH IN TOWN.
FRANK WHITMAN HAD A BLACKSMITH SHOP ON THE OLD JAMES STAHL PROPERTY.
ELMER FEASTER HAD A SADDLE SHOP IN THE LITTLE BUILDING THAT LATER SERVED AS A BARBER SHOP BY FRANK DELCAMP.
AT THE OLD TOM STAHLEY HOME THERE WAS A WAGON BUSINESS OWNED BY THEODORE FANGBONER.
JAMES MATHERS WAS A SHOEMAKER IN TOWN AND ALSO KNOW FOR HIS HORSERADISH.
JOHN BEEBER WAS THE GUNSMITH IN TOWN.
PETER STAHL WAS A CHAIR MAKER.
AT THE ALBERT DELCAMP PROPERTY THERE WAS A CREAMERY . CREAM WAS SENT TO MIFFLINBURG TO BE MADE INTO ICE CREAM AND CHEESE.
IN 1921 FRANK STAHL STARTED AN EGG BUSINESS THAT WAS THEN CONTINUED BY SONS FRANK AND WENDELL.
KEN FISHER HAD AN ELECTRICAL BUSINESS ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.
JULY 22, 1926 A TORNADO HIT THE TOWN AND THE ENTIRE STEEPLE INCLUDING THE BELL WAS TORN FROM THE UNION EMANUEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
THERE WERE 2 COVERED BRIDGES IN TOWN. ONE OVER SPRUCE RUN AND THE OTHER NEAR THE BALL FIELDS AT THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.
A FUNNY STORY OF FRANK HEIMBACH COMING HOME ONE NIGHT AND IN THE DARK TRIPPED OVER A COW ON THE BRIDGE. NOT SURE WHO WAS MORE FRIGHTENED.
SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 A MAJOR FIRE TORE THROUGH TOWN AND 6 HOMES AND SEVERAL BARNS WERE LOST. STARTED IN THE WARREN SHUCK STORE.
ALSO LOOK FOR A PICTURE OF ROBERT MYERS IN THE PHOTO ALBUM. GREW UP IN MAZEPPA AND WENT TO LEWISBURG HIGH. IN DECEMBER OR 1942 HE JOINED THE NAVY AND WAS A NAVY DIVER. EARNED THE VICTORY MEDAL,EUROPEAN AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN MEDAL AND A SPECIAL BRONZE STAR MEDAL.
HELPED TO CLEAR HEAVILY MINED WATERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MAZEPPA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME.........
DOUG WALTER
" MAZEPPA." ORIGINALLY NAMED BOYERTOWN AFTER THE FOUNDER SAMUEL BOYER AND HIS WIFE SARAH. A POST OFFICE WAS STARTED IN 1886 AND A NEW NAME WAS NEEDED AS THERE ALREADY WAS A BOYERTOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA. SCHOOLMASTER CLEMENT EDMUNDS SUGGESTED MAZEPPA AND IT WAS APPROVED. MAZEPPA MILLS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1788 AND STAYED IN OPERATION TILL 1981 WHEN EUGENE JOHNSON RETIRED. MILL WAS STARTED BY MICHAEL RENTSCHELER.
SEVERAL DOCTORS PRACTICED IN TOWN. DR S. ASHER DIEFFENDERFER LIVED ON THE WENDELL STAHL FARM. DR ISSAC FETTEROLF PRACTICED OUT OF THE GARMAN HOME IN THE CNETER OF TOWN.
FRANK STRAUB WAS THE MORTICIAN. A TRADITION WAS WHEN THE PERSON WAS REMOVED FROM THE HOME THE CHURCH BELL WOULD TOLL.
MILTON REMALY WAS A PIANO REPAIRMAN.
JACOB DELCAMP WAS A BLACKSMITH IN TOWN.
FRANK WHITMAN HAD A BLACKSMITH SHOP ON THE OLD JAMES STAHL PROPERTY.
ELMER FEASTER HAD A SADDLE SHOP IN THE LITTLE BUILDING THAT LATER SERVED AS A BARBER SHOP BY FRANK DELCAMP.
AT THE OLD TOM STAHLEY HOME THERE WAS A WAGON BUSINESS OWNED BY THEODORE FANGBONER.
JAMES MATHERS WAS A SHOEMAKER IN TOWN AND ALSO KNOW FOR HIS HORSERADISH.
JOHN BEEBER WAS THE GUNSMITH IN TOWN.
PETER STAHL WAS A CHAIR MAKER.
AT THE ALBERT DELCAMP PROPERTY THERE WAS A CREAMERY . CREAM WAS SENT TO MIFFLINBURG TO BE MADE INTO ICE CREAM AND CHEESE.
IN 1921 FRANK STAHL STARTED AN EGG BUSINESS THAT WAS THEN CONTINUED BY SONS FRANK AND WENDELL.
KEN FISHER HAD AN ELECTRICAL BUSINESS ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.
JULY 22, 1926 A TORNADO HIT THE TOWN AND THE ENTIRE STEEPLE INCLUDING THE BELL WAS TORN FROM THE UNION EMANUEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
THERE WERE 2 COVERED BRIDGES IN TOWN. ONE OVER SPRUCE RUN AND THE OTHER NEAR THE BALL FIELDS AT THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.
A FUNNY STORY OF FRANK HEIMBACH COMING HOME ONE NIGHT AND IN THE DARK TRIPPED OVER A COW ON THE BRIDGE. NOT SURE WHO WAS MORE FRIGHTENED.
SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 A MAJOR FIRE TORE THROUGH TOWN AND 6 HOMES AND SEVERAL BARNS WERE LOST. STARTED IN THE WARREN SHUCK STORE.
ALSO LOOK FOR A PICTURE OF ROBERT MYERS IN THE PHOTO ALBUM. GREW UP IN MAZEPPA AND WENT TO LEWISBURG HIGH. IN DECEMBER OR 1942 HE JOINED THE NAVY AND WAS A NAVY DIVER. EARNED THE VICTORY MEDAL,EUROPEAN AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN MEDAL AND A SPECIAL BRONZE STAR MEDAL.
HELPED TO CLEAR HEAVILY MINED WATERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MAZEPPA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME.........
DOUG WALTER
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