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ROCKLAND


This is the corner store in the village of Rockland.


Looking down the road from Rockland toward Kennerdell.
Barr's Corners was a small town in Rockland Twp. Venango County, Pa. It was comprised of 5 families. Milton Barr (Sheila's great-great grandfather) originally owned the land. In 1865 Milton Barr and his bride Rebecca Hall came to Seneca and bought the "Rural Hotel" then a rough public road house for transient oil men. Seneca was then called Salem City. Rebecca refused to be a partner in a public saloon and with her husband they cleaned the hotel of any tainted atmosphere and established a hotel service, real food and clean restful beds that came to be renown by a highly appreciative traveling public all over western Pa. Mrs. Barr "Aunt Becky" advocated prohibition in a day when it had hardly been thought of.

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