Eugene A. Dorflinger Sr., Christian Dorflinger’s cousin who had emigrated from Alsace, established a general store in White Mills in 1869 after working at Dorflinger’s Greenpoint factory in Brooklyn, New York. Built in 1869 and originally known as Hankins and Dorflinger, the store sold dry goods, some groceries, and cut glass, though workers in White Mills were free to shop at several general stores. Eugene’s family home stood behind the store on Charles Street across from the St. Charles Hotel, and his property also included a carriage barn and a small gazebo. He operated the store, commanded the Dorflinger Guard, and served as White Mills station agent for the Erie Railway until 1901, when he was killed in a rail accident. He and his wife, Clotilde King, raised ten children there, and two of their sons, John Christian Dorflinger and Eugene Jr., later held responsible positions at the factory. Eugene Jr. became an amateur photographer, built a small studio near the house, and left glass negatives that document life in White Mills around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century; in 1915 he became head of the Dorflinger factory’s etching department. The store front was rebuilt in 1894 after a cyclone tore it off, and the former store later housed John C. Dorflinger’s museum shop; after twenty-seven years of factory work, his efforts preserved the Dorflinger story and many of its products. The Eugene A. Dorflinger property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Across from it, Christian Dorflinger established the St. Charles Hotel in 1869 as a working hotel for guests and visitors, enlarged it in 1872, and moved his family there from the farmhouse near Butcher’s Pond, now Trout Lake. The native-stone, three-story building had a mansard roof, first-floor service rooms, a second-floor ballroom, and third-floor bedrooms, served as the family home until the 1930’s, and was purchased in 1959 and burned by its owner on March 1, 1961.