The Geo. Burroughs threshing ring in 1913, Panola Township.
The relocated building was placed west of the railroad and south of where the store now stands. It was used in varied ways from 1854 until it burned on February 19, 1920. The Josephine post office was closed by Simpson Y. Barnard, and he built a new store in Panola and became the village's first postmaster. Hammers had sold his interest in Crosley's store to Thomas Patterson, and the latter later sold to Samuel G. Lewis. A second floor had been added, and this became the hall in which the Panola Masonic Lodge was organized in 1857. In 1855 William Tompkins opened a general store and James Dye a lumber yard. A blacksmith shop and a wagon factory was conducted by John Adams Sr., and Henry Saltsman became the proprietor of Panola's first hotel.
In the early 1860's a gristmill was located on the north side of the town west of the railroad. It blew up while Allen McCord was in charge of the engine; luckily no one was injured, but the damage was so extensive that Mr. Sheppler discontinued his business.
Porter Bassett bought the first freight house in Panola and moved it to his farm opposite St. Mary's Cemetery on Route 51, where it is now owned by Chris Eichelberger and is still in use as a barn, though remodeled.
A coal shaft was sunk in Panola in January, 1888 to a depth of eighty feet, and the El Paso Journal of January 28, 1888, said: "at that point a vein of water was struck, and it could not be raised fast enough with two half barrels as buckets to allow the work to go on." The project was abandoned and the shaft filled in. It was located on the north side of town east of the railroad. Later prospecting in 1888
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