In the Linglestown area, local lore recorded by Nevin Moyer holds that aviation experiments began long before the Wright brothers: in September 1828, George Pletz and his brother built a flying machine, likely a glider, and tried to launch from the mountain into Fishing Creek Valley, but the attempt failed, killing twenty-year-old George and injuring his brother; George was buried at Wenrich's Cemetery. Amateur experimentation continued when Ernest G. Fackler, whose family owned 6061 Linglestown Road, built a moterless aeroplane in 1929 that briefly rose twenty feet before crashing, after which he intended to try again. Education beyond roughly an eighth-grade level was long available through Professor John Focht's St. Thomas Institute, where he began advanced classes in 1858 for three dollars per six-week term; after buying three and a half parcels in 1861, he farmed and taught from his home, then in 1870 replaced a log house on lot 5 with a three-story building whose third floor housed the Institute and whose lower floors held rental properties. Many graduates became teachers, and after Focht's retirement others in town continued his example until a public high school was founded; when the Institute closed, its third floor remained a meeting place for fraternal orders. Nearby properties also reflect the area's changing uses: 6069 Linglestown Road, built about 1932, stands on the site of a former blacksmith shop, and 6080 Linglestown Road was once the site of a candy shop and bakery. To the east, Running Pump Farm at 6220 Linglestown Road was once the home of the Running Pump Tavern, built in 1741 on land secured from Thomas and John Penn and first owned by Andrew Berryhill, when the place was called Mt. Hill; legend says Berryhill was killed by Indians and that his wife and son hid in a secret cellar before escaping to Fort Hunter eight miles away. The land was still owned by Andrew Berryhill as late as 1765, with Martin Zimmerman then living in the tavern before Henry Meese bought the farm; it later passed to B. F. Moyer and his wife Kate Meese, then to their son Nevin Moyer, who sold it to the Eyster family, and the farm remains in cultivation. The tavern, torn down in 1913, had long served travelers bound for Harris Ferry, as well as stagecoaches and westbound Conestoga wagons whose horses watered at the running pump trough. Linglestown's later services included rural mail delivery beginning in 1896, when carrier Harry Julliard built a stable at what is now 6040 Linglestown Road for his horse and wagon, and an early post office at what is now 6064 Linglestown Road, where store owner Thomas Barnett became postmaster in 1841. At 6091 Linglestown Road, a medical practice has operated since before the Gordon family began one there in 1962: in 1952 it was the home and practice of doctors Otto Weber and Alberta Finch, who married on July 12 of that year; while Otto completed training in gynecology and obstetrics and served as Deputy County Coroner, thirty-six-year-old Alberta maintained their general medicine and pediatric practice, and in 1962 the family moved to East Stroudsburg so Otto could join an ob-gyn practice.