Main Street from near Sixth Street looking east. This would appear to be a very impressive main street at the time this picture was taken. Seneca  was but some fifty  years old at that time and there are  buildings second to only the larger cities.

Main street looks as if it could have been  very muddy after a few day of rain or when the spring thaw came every spring. Can you imagine how great it was when they paved the street with brick and to think this brick street lasted at least three quarters of a century and longer.   There was no paved Eleventh Street until some time around 1950s.   In the early years it was called West Street and used  as a way to get cattle and sometimes hogs to the railroad stockyards which were between  Eleventh and Fourteenth Street on the south side of the tracks.

The street was bricked in 1818 and 1919.

 This picture must be close to a 100 years old and  many of the buildings shown here are still with us today. The sign on the right at Fifth and Main on Harsh Drug Store and a sign on the left about shoes could  still faintly be seen in (2004).