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Bendersville, Pennsylvania United States | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°58′37″N 77°13′23″W / 39.97694°N 77.22306°W | ||||||||||
Operated by | Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1884 | ||||||||||
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Bendersville ( colloq. "Asper's Station" by 1888) was a Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (G&H) stop east of Bendersville, Pennsylvania, with facilities of Frederick A. Asper [1] that included a 3-story brick flour mill, grain elevator, and warehouse [2] built in 1883 [3] (the latter's roof blew off in 1904). [4] The depot was opposite the mill over the tracks. [3]
The G&H had begun shipments to Asper's mill by November 28, 1883, [5] and when the route was complete to Gettysburg, Bendersville Station was initially the only stop designated as "station" on the original 1884 railroad schedule. [6] The locale's additional industrial facilities subsequently included the 1888 Peters planing mill, [7] a 1902 tannery, [8] the Allen flint mill, [9] [10] a 1922 canning plant, [11] and the 1893 Penn Tile Works [12] ( encaustic tile by J. W. Ivery). [13] [14] After the Asper's mill property was sold in 1913, [2] the Aspers Produce Company and Columbia Flint Mill [15] were acquired by the 1919 Aspers Fruit Products Company [16] (liquidated in 1926). [17] The railroad station was eliminated by the development of the concrete highway [18] completed in 1927, [19] the Glen Gary Shale and Brick plant at Aspers became a Pfaltzgraff facility in 1973, [20] and a new post office building was erected in 2001 [21] (the 1934 post office was in Clyde Plank's warehouse). [22]
The locale (Bendersville Station) [23] and populated place (Aspers, the original post office name) [24] were separately designated in 1979 for the Geographic Names Information System, [25] and the Aspers census-designated place was named in 2008 [26] to replace the 2000 census' Bendersville Station-Aspers CDP.
Bendersville | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location |
Bendersville, Pennsylvania United States | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°58′37″N 77°13′23″W / 39.97694°N 77.22306°W | ||||||||||
Operated by | Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1884 | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Bendersville ( colloq. "Asper's Station" by 1888) was a Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (G&H) stop east of Bendersville, Pennsylvania, with facilities of Frederick A. Asper [1] that included a 3-story brick flour mill, grain elevator, and warehouse [2] built in 1883 [3] (the latter's roof blew off in 1904). [4] The depot was opposite the mill over the tracks. [3]
The G&H had begun shipments to Asper's mill by November 28, 1883, [5] and when the route was complete to Gettysburg, Bendersville Station was initially the only stop designated as "station" on the original 1884 railroad schedule. [6] The locale's additional industrial facilities subsequently included the 1888 Peters planing mill, [7] a 1902 tannery, [8] the Allen flint mill, [9] [10] a 1922 canning plant, [11] and the 1893 Penn Tile Works [12] ( encaustic tile by J. W. Ivery). [13] [14] After the Asper's mill property was sold in 1913, [2] the Aspers Produce Company and Columbia Flint Mill [15] were acquired by the 1919 Aspers Fruit Products Company [16] (liquidated in 1926). [17] The railroad station was eliminated by the development of the concrete highway [18] completed in 1927, [19] the Glen Gary Shale and Brick plant at Aspers became a Pfaltzgraff facility in 1973, [20] and a new post office building was erected in 2001 [21] (the 1934 post office was in Clyde Plank's warehouse). [22]
The locale (Bendersville Station) [23] and populated place (Aspers, the original post office name) [24] were separately designated in 1979 for the Geographic Names Information System, [25] and the Aspers census-designated place was named in 2008 [26] to replace the 2000 census' Bendersville Station-Aspers CDP.