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TOUR: White Haven Market - White Haven, PA

White Haven Market Owner: Christopher Kubishin Opened:  2005 Cooperative:  none Location:  501 Main St, White Haven, PA Photographed: May 25, 2019 Welcome to White Haven, a small town of 1100 in the eastern part of the Coal Region, and incidentally the hometown of protagonist Liz Lemon on the TV show 30 Rock (although it's a heavily fictionalized, and much larger, town in the show). White Haven is located along the Lehigh River, where the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad once had a line, and today that railroad is a bike path. While the supermarket in town is today the White Haven Market, the store of just under 10,000 square feet was built around 1970 as an ACME. In fact, it is a very flat pitched-roof building , and what used to be the side of the store is now the front as a strip mall has been constructed extending out of what used to be the front. We'll see evidence of this change inside. Before we go in, a look at the railroad heritage of the area. Here we also se...