Rail service gave Glen Rock the means to ship out what it made and attract new industries, bringing vitality, encouragement, and convenience. A large brick building built by Emmanuel Sheffer in 1856 served over time as the railroad ticket office, Sheffer's mercantile business, a large meeting hall, Glen Rock's newspaper The Item from 1870 to 1876, and the First National Bank of Glen Rock from 1864 to 1876. The Pennsylvania Railroad bought the building in 1874, and in 1961 Aero Oil bought and razed it. On October 25, 1992, the last train passed through town, and today thousands of people each year use the same route for biking, walking, jogging, and bird watching. Looking south toward Seitzland at the Main Street crossing, local businesses offered farming products, hardware, monuments, haircuts, mail service, factory work, stoves, and more. Looking north toward Centerville, Wesley Koller built his five-story carriage factory in 1900, and in 1893 Israel Glatfelter built his clothing store in front of the flour mill he owned from 1885 to 1918; the mill had originally been a woolen mill built in 1837 by Glen Rock founder William Heathcote.