The Smola family homestead, dating to about 1878 to 1880, was associated with William Smola, Frank Smola, Joseph Nicholas Smola, another William Smola, Josephine Smola, Elizabeth Smola, and Josephine Rezanka Smola, and the house at Peters Station along Route 157 is now the Vernon Keller home. Thomas Shashek's boyhood home was built in 1913 and burned in 1935, and it stood on West Main Street near the entrance to Hillcrest Drive. Around 1916 to 1920, at the Shashek farm near what is now Hampton Drive, John Helfer's threshing machine and steam engine were shown in full operation, with John Yanda sitting on a tractor and a boy in bib overalls believed to be Pete McGraff.