I was always curious about the corner house at 200 Division Avenue. According to the book Ellwood City Houses and the People Who Lived in Them by Charles R. Moser, the building was a grocery store on the first floor with the owners living on the second floor before becoming strictly a residence like it is today.
John & Marina Beatrice opened the neighborhood grocery store in the first part of 1916. Their daughter and her husband Nick Rocco took over the grocery store when the Beatrice’s opened their flower shop located at 815 Second Street. The Rocco’s operated the grocery store from early 1930’s until Christmas of 1968.
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My great-grandmother was rose marie rocco and her father owned a grocery store in ellwood city, and she used to talk about how they lived over top the grocery store, except her fathers name was Charles Rocco and it was during the early 1930′s but they later moved to ohio, I’m almost sure its the same grocery store because she said she used to live on division ave. I know her parents came to ellwood city from Sicily, but who knows the towns probably full of Rocco’s. I just found this really interesting and coincedental.