Mail wagon outside Algeos General Store and Post Office, 1901Mail wagon outside Algeo’s 1901Artist rendering of the Algeo store on the corner of Washington and Bower Hill roadsPark and Kate Algeo purchased a store on the corner of Washington and Bower Hill Roads in 1898. In 1903, the first telephone exchange—LOCUST—was installed on the second floor. The operators used the outside staircase on the right side of the building to get to the phone. A picture of Algeo’s delivery wagon in 1916. “Mt. Lebanon’s Busy Street,” which was written on this picture postcard, was obviously a joke, but years later this bucolic dirt road would become the community’s busiest thoroughfare. This picture was taken outside Reverend Boyd’s house/Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church parsonage looking south down Washington Road around 1905. Algeo’s store can be seen at right. The “M.A. Boyd” on the mailbox was the reverend’s widow; she died in 1923.L.B. Finely ran a drug store at 677 Washington Road. He married Kathryn Algeo.
