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Bill's Place , Fulton/Bedford County PA Line rt. 30(Lincoln Highwy)

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Elizabethville Echo
Thu, Dec 24, 1936 ·Page 3
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Bill's Place located at the top of Ray's Hill (elevation 1958 feet) on the Lincoln Highway (Route 30), East of Breezewood, Bedford County boasts the smallest Post Office in the United States when it opened in 1923. The population of Bill's Place was listed officially at 6. This photo was from the 1940's. The site was later demolished in the late 1960's when the Pennsylvania Turnpike was re-routed east of Breezewood.
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BILL’S PLACE, Pennsylvania — Technically this place is no longer on a map — the realignment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the 1960s ended its tiny dot. However, for over 30 years, if you were traveling up and down the Lincoln Highway along the Bedford-Fulton county line, :

 

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