Ellwood City Meat Market
12 April 2010
Colin Clarke owned and operated the Ellwood City Meat Market on Lawrence Avenue. Back before automobiles were prevalent, customers would place their orders in the morning and Colin’s son Edwin Clarke would deliver the meat in the afternoons with his horse drawn wagon. This was a common practice in that time as people did not buy groceries for extended periods of times, because there was nowhere to keep it fresh.
As you can see in the one picture, this was during the times when Ellwood City had the infamous muddy streets and there was no such thing as refrigerated wagons.
(Photos provided by Joanne (Clarke) Brenneman)
I was wondering where the Ellwood City Meat Market was on Lawrence Ave. ? And if the building is still there ?
Mike Weir had a meat market in the 700 block of lawrence ave. He butchard animals in the back of the store. I recall hearing cows mooing in the stockyard behind the store.
Hello, I talked to Joanne (Clarke) Brenneman this weekend as she was the one who gave me the Ellwood City Meat Market pictures. She is not 100% sure the location but knows that it was on Lawrence Avenue between 7th & 8th Street. She was always under the impression it was either at or next door to Posies by Patti. According to a map of 1908 Ellwood City, there was a butcher shop at 705 Lawrence Avenue.