Pennsylvania Match Company

Mr. Donachy owned several patents for match-making machinery and worked as superintendent for the match company Hanover & York prior to their sale.

[3] A 31,000 square feet (2,900 m2) brick building was constructed in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania somewhere around late 1899 and production began in 1900, employing around or more than 300 people.

According to the Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association, the business "closed in 1947 due to competition from book matches and cigarette lighters.

[8] After Clasters was sold to YBC in 1997,[9] the site stood vacant for several years until the American Philatelic Society, looking for more space at lower cost,[10] purchased the complex in 2002, renovated the largest building and relocated from State College.

The society then refurbished the adjacent structure, making space available for other commercial tenants, and stated their intention to eventually rehabilitate the remaining buildings.