It was On This Day
in 1919 that the last train pulled out of Dorsey Station, thus ending more than
40 years of service to the Southern End of Lancaster County. The station,
located about a half mile east of Peach Bottom, was a part of the Lancaster,
Oxford & Southern Railway. It was a combination passenger and freight
train.
It is the
last of the original stations to have survived on the railway’s 28 miles of
narrow-gauge track between Dorsey and Oxford . The railroad's tracks were pulled up and sold for
scrap after World War I. Today, the wooden two-story station is in disrepair.
Dorsey Station was built in 1876
by Samuel Dorsey, a local miller. It is included on Lancaster County
Preservation Trust’s annual Most Threatened Historic Properties list. Friends
of Dorsey Station are trying to save it as an educational center.
Photo:
Courtesy Historic Preservation Trust
On
This Day is a prompt to further explore historical events.
©
Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
I do hope they save it, it's being vandalized and i live just above it, so sad to see
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