Fur Trading Post

Location & History

• The Fur Trading Post, also known as Engle's Store, Warner's Lake; was built by Jay Engle and his wife Lydia E. Kirkpatrick Engle in the early 1900s. Jay was remembered as a teller of tall tales and for the pet bear he kept at his home.
• Harold Pangburn and his wife, Agnes bought the property in the 1940s and renamed it Pangburn's. They ran it as a snack bar and bathing beach for many years.
• Willard Osterhout, and his wife Jerrine Kane Osterhout, have owned the property since 1970 and it is now their private residence.

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  Will and Jerry Osterhouts house
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  Engle's Bathing Beach 1937
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  Jay and Lydia Engle's Fur Trading Post in the early 1920s, now owned by Willard Osterhout and Jerrine Osterhout