A post office was established at Muncy on April 1, 1800, with Henry Shoemaker as postmaster. Muncy’s current Post Office, built by the WPA during the Great Depression, was completed in 1938, and its lobby contains ceramic art and a mural depicting Rachel Silverthorne’s ride to warn frontier settlers of an impending attack by the British and their allies during the Great Runaway. Across the street stood the original Eagle Hotel, dating to the early 1800s, and in 1826 a new brick Eagle Hotel was built next door; over time it was also known as Temperance House, Washington Hotel, Coder’s Hotel, and Muncy Valley House before becoming Muncy’s YWCA in 1920. On the northwest corner of Main and High streets stood a building once described as the most beautiful in Pennsylvania, an 1874 Italianate stucco structure with eyebrow windows that housed the Lycoming County Fire Insurance Co., established in 1840. The company failed after it could not pay insured losses following the Chicago fire of 1871 and the Great Milton fire of 1880. The Muncy School District used the building from 1908 until 1936, after which it was converted into apartments called Penn Hall; in 1986 Muncy Borough purchased it, leading to the founding of The Penn Hall Preservation Corporation to restore one of Muncy’s finest landmarks.