In the 1870s after the railroad was established, two warehouses were built near the the tracks. One was Starr & Sanders (Alfred Starr and Alonza Sanders) and the other was Shorb and Fink (John A. Shorb and Joseph J. Fink). Starr and Sanders was located on South Queen Street where the Town Theater was built in 1948 which and is now a Mexican Food Store. Fink and Shorb occupied the site that is now know as the Keystone Milling Company. It was also know as the Littlestown Milling Company when the picture was taken in 1916. J.E. Gentzler, who operated the Keystone Milling Company from 1940 to 1950, took over at that time a flour and feed mill which had been in business in the borough for eighty years. It was purchased from the firm of Shockey and Easterday who had operated for two and a half years and prior to that, the mill was owned for twenty years by D.W. Deitrich of Philadelphia, who operated a string of several such enterprises. ( 1965) Helen Harner Dehoff, has been with the mill since 1916 as a bookkeeper. Ten Persons are Presently employed (1965). The Leading brands are “Kitchen Queen” pastry flour and “Keystone” Feeds. The Mill has a capacity of 450 - 100 pound bags. In 1963 the company erected Stormor Grain Bins, with 35.000 bushel grain storage and drying equipment, making a total capacity for storage of 100,00 bushels of grain. Both Warehouses engaged in extensive business of grain, and produce of all kinds.

Picture and information: Littlestown Bicentenial Book, 1965