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VANISHING LANDMARKS
"Nothing is permanent but change." This axiom is likewise true of ordinary homes in Tavistock but more so of buildings that onc were considered as tsable landmarks without which the village would cease to exist.
WOODSTOCK STREET NORTH 1898
Left: Commercial Hotel, oak sidewalk to G.T.R. Station, weigh-scales (burned May 24, 1900), The Tavistock Mills (note the peaked roof and 3 sets of windows).
Right: M.M. Staebler's Jewelry Store, G.G. Peppler's Store, Sam Zehr, barber, J.W. Ratz, tinsmith, -made into one block by W.E. Ratz, sold to M..M. Staebler, then to August Schaefer, Jan. 17, 1901. Bauer's Hotel and barn, The Arlington Hotel - built 1895.
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