Bedford, Pennsylvania

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History of Bedford

The Giant Coffee Pot RoadyGoat

1927

Right along Route 30 — the Lincoln Highway — sits an 18-foot-tall, 22-foot-wide coffee pot made of brick and sheet metal. David Berton Koontz built it in 1927 to lure motorists into his gas station next door. It started as a lunch stand serving coffee, hamburgers, and Coca-Cola, with a small apartment on the second floor. Over the decades it became a bar, a restaurant, and a regular stop for Greyhound bus passengers. By the 1990s it was falling apart and nearly demolished. The Bedford County Fair Association bought it for one dollar in 2003, and the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor spent eighty thousand dollars moving it 125 yards across the street to the fairgrounds entrance — during a snowstorm. It landed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. If it were a real coffee pot, it would hold 819,000 cups. Today it hosts the Coffee Pot Quilters and opens to visitors during the Bedford Fall Foliage Festival each October.

The Abandoned Storyland RoadyGoat

1950

Tucked along Route 30 in Schellsburg, the remains of Storyland still peek through the trees — a hauntingly charming reminder of the fairytale parks that once dotted America's early road-trip routes. Built in the 1950s during the golden age of roadside tourism, this family-run attraction welcomed visitors for decades before closing in the 1980s. Instead of rides, families wandered through nursery-rhyme scenes brought to life with hand-crafted statues and small fairytale structures — a towering Pied Piper at the entrance, a bright castle-style gateway, Mother Goose characters like Humpty Dumpty and the Old Woman in the Shoe, and a wooded path filled with storybook scenes. The castle is long gone, but several statues remain — lovingly repainted and cared for by the founder's daughter, who runs Piper's Place Country Originals on the property. For many travelers, these statues were childhood landmarks glimpsed from the car window, a little burst of magic on long family road trips down the Lincoln Highway. They stand as rare survivors of a bygone era of American roadside attractions. The area is private property — enjoy the view from the road.

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