Susquehanna Hotel

Susquehanna Hotel. . , At the corner of Lapidum and Stafford Roads stood a three-story Victorian building known as the Susquehanna Hotel, built by Conrad Baker in 1868. It was constructed of stone and brick and had several large porches. Other buildings -- a church, a mill, a Masonic hall, a school, and numerous houses, stores, and warehouses as well as wharves -- were all a part of the town at one time or another., Initially, Lapidum profited from the financial success of the ferry, the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, and trade from the steamboat landing. By the turn of the 20th century, however, these sources of traffic ceased to function, causing the slow decline of the town. Ice gorges éventually destroyed the warehouses and wharves. The hotel continued as a fishing lodge and men's club until it was demolished in the late 1960s., A three-story Victorian Era hotel, similar to what the Susquehanna Hotel would have looked like.