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Fisher Hotel at Frisco
Milestones Vol 22 No 4 Winter 1997

The Fisher Hotel, at Frisco, was built in 1881 by Simon Fisher, who also owned and operated it. He operated a general store and postoffice on the first floor of the building. The hotel was built long before H. W. Hartman started carving Ellwood out of the wilderness, and at a time when a hotel was needed to accommodate Pittsburgh sportsmen who found fishing in the Connoquenessing Creek much to their liking.

From the date of the building of the hotel he applied for a liquor license every year, but was refused year after year until 1889, when he was granted a bottling license, which permitted him to buy beer by the barrel or keg and sell it in bottles. This business was conducted in a building located across the track from the front of the hotel. This building had been built at the same time as the hotel and had been used for a warehouse. The bottling license was refused after one year. The hotel was discontinued about 1900. The building stood on the northeast side of the railroad crossing at Frisco. The building was razed in 1939, the lumber to be used in the construction of a new home for R. E. Milford's grocery store on Wiley Hill.