Around 1870, a street scene from the bridge over Rocky Fountain Creek showed three white tannery buildings on the east side of Buckeystown Pike, reflecting the tanning of animal hides as the town's earliest industry. Above them stood the Baker family home, a red brick house on the hill on property Daniel Baker purchased from the Buckeys in 1830. Across the street on the west side of Buckeystown Pike at the top of the hill stood a red brick house built circa 1863, later covered with white shingles to preserve the soft brick. Farther down the hill stood the Buckey Tavern, built by John Buckey around 1788, and nearby was a white frame duplex house, the town's only structure with an above ground cellar, built before 1858. By about 1900, the white tannery buildings had been torn down and their lot was sometimes used for grazing cattle. The original George Buckey home, then owned by the Baker family, had acquired a wrap-around porch. Down the hill on the west side of Buckeystown Pike, the John Buckey Tavern had been a private residence since the 1850s, with the duplex house next door. Beside the creek stood the Dietrick and Gambrill granary, which stored grain, wheat, hay, salt, seeds, potatoes, flour, and coal, and shipped goods by train on track laid for the brickyard along the north side of Rocky Fountain Creek. The granary was destroyed by fire in 1933, and since 1936 a gas station has occupied that property.