Main Street Williamsport

10/12/2026

Hey Guys & Ghouls, check out this fun upcoming haunt to send a few chills down your spine...

10/08/2026

Help Ruth's Market celebrate their Terrific Twos Tomorrow!

Can't believe tomorrow is our 2 Year Anniversary here at Ruth's Market 💛

Let's celebrate 🥳 we will be open till 6!

📢Buy 2 sandwiches or hoagies get 20% off your whole purchase

10/02/2026

09/28/2026

Jack truly is living his best life and representing Williamsport well across the ocean. May we each approach life with the same passion he shows!

08/13/2026

It’s that time of year again for Celebration of Trees. Email inquiries only to reserve your tree. Contact is in the original post below.

Planning is underway for The Celebration of Trees 2026. If you are interested in putting up a tree this year please reach out via email at [email protected]. We will not be responding to social media inquiries about putting up a tree. You must reach out to us at the email listed above.

08/13/2026

Happy first anniversary Williamsport Diner LLC

🎉 Williamsport Diner is turning ONE! 🎉

Join us this Saturday the 15th as we celebrate our 1-Year Anniversary! Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout our first year.

Stop by from 9 AM–2 PM and enjoy FREE coffee and a FREE cupcake while supplies last. We can’t wait to celebrate with our amazing customers and community!

07/31/2026

In the fall of 1959, Williamsport voters went to the polls and decided this town needed a community pool. Not a developer, not a grant, a town vote. The construction bid went to Norman S. Early & Son for just over $86,000.
The dedication was Saturday, June 2, 1960. Over 1,000 people showed up, more than half the town's population at the time. The Williamsport High School Blue Band played under director Harry Kight. The Boy Scouts and members of Williamsport American Legion Post #202 raised the flag. There was even a "Queen of the Pool" contest, and Susie Downs of South Artizan Street took the crown that day.
The L. Beard Miller Memorial Pool - williamsport pool was later renamed in honor of L. Beard Miller, the former mayor who pushed to get it built in the first place. His name is still on it.
It sits inside Byron Memorial Park, the same park that's home to Conococheague Little League, the Community Building, and the Williamsport Memorial Library, Washington County Free Library, MD, right in the middle of everything this town does for its kids.
The Town put it through a full rehabilitation not long ago, tearing out and rebuilding the walls, floor, and coping, because a 60-plus year old pool needed real work to keep going. Williamsport didn't just build this thing in 1960 and forget it. The town has kept paying to keep it open, generation after generation.
Every kid cooling off in that water this week is standing in a pool this town voted for, built, named after the mayor who fought for it, and has been rebuilding and maintaining ever since.
That's not nostalgia. That's a town that decided this mattered enough to keep paying for it.

07/30/2026

In 1880, William DeFrehn opened a chair factory on the berm side of the canal, right above the Conococheague Aqueduct. At full production, they were turning out 125 dozen chairs a month, 1,500 chairs, in 35 different styles. That's real industry, running on water rents paid straight to the canal company to power the machines.
Then came 1889. The flood that hit Williamsport that year took out a serious stretch of the canal itself, and by the historical association's own account, DeFrehn's factory was the single largest casualty of the whole disaster.
The math didn't work to rebuild. So DeFrehn packed up and moved the entire operation to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Later, it moved again, to Hornerstown.
The site didn't stay forgotten, though. In August of 1956, two archaeologists from Frederick, Nicholas Yinger and Ralph Fout, came out and actually excavated the old factory grounds at the mouth of the Conococheague, more than 60 years after the flood that ended it.
A factory that made 1,500 chairs a month, wiped out in a single flood, packed up and gone within the year, and still worth digging up half a century later.
That's how much this water has shaped what did and didn't survive here.

07/29/2026

Before the bridge, there was a ferry, and this story starts earlier than almost anything else we've told you this month.
The first ferry crossing here dates to around 1731, run by a man named John Williams along the old Great Waggon Road. A few years later, Evan Watkins took over a crossing nearby, licensed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1744. His landing wasn't just a river crossing, it was the entrance to Braddock's Road, and in 1755, Washington and Braddock's forces crossed the Potomac right here on their way to Fort Duquesne. Before Williamsport had a name, this exact ground was already on the map of American history.
It wasn't always peaceful, either. In 1756, an officer serving under Washington was killed in a tavern fight on the Maryland side, after soldiers stationed across the river kept slipping over to drink. Washington was reportedly furious about it.
Ownership passed to Peter Light in 1795, then to Robert Lemen in 1854, who finally rigged a cable across the river so the crossing didn't depend on current and luck. In 1870, Lemen's daughter Eliza married Charles Ardinger of Williamsport, and the family ran the ferry from there.
Charles died in 1900. Eliza kept the ferry running by herself for eight more years, a widow operating a river crossing alone, until the new bridge opened in 1908 and put her out of business for good. She sued the bridge company for the income she lost. She died before the case ever made it to court.
Here's the part you can still see for yourself. On the West Virginia side, there's a marker for Watkins' Ferry, put up in 1967, standing in a small cluster with markers for the Gettysburg Campaign, Cushwa Basin, and the C&O Canal Aqueduct, all within easy walking distance of each other. On the Maryland side, the actual crossing point is now River Bottom Park.
Almost 180 years, several families, one crossing point that carried colonial travelers, Revolutionary War soldiers, Civil War armies, and everyday Williamsport residents back and forth across this river, long before a single car ever drove over it.
Next time you're at River Bottom Park, you're standing where this whole town used to cross.

07/29/2026

Be sure to wish Devin a Happy Birthday today!