The Dewart Train Station

The Dewart Train Station was located on the North Side of Main Street, West of the Tracks. 

"When the Pennsylvania Railroad was built in 1846, Mr Pardee sold his grain market to a company known as Hull, Man & Nagle"

"The first business established, and the most important ever conducted at the place, was that of purchasing and forwarding grain. Hull, Marr, and Nagle erected the first warehouse for this purpose, a frame building twenty-eight by fifty feet, which, as enlarged by Arlo Pardee, the next owner, constitutes the present freight and passenger station of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad. Several other warehouses were also conducted, and at one time the shipments from this point amounted to two hundred thousand bushels annually, at a conservative estimate. Less attention is given to grain than formerly by the farmers of the adjacent region, and the opening of the Philadelphia and Reading 
railroad on the opposite side of the river has also reduced the shipments at this point. "

 

In October of 1918, Mrs Mattie A Cummings of Dewart received a verdict in her favor, awarding her $15,000, for a grade crossing accident resulting in the death of her husband two years prior.

In In 1928, Samuel Cummings, a bread distributor, was killed when he drove his wagon in the path of a train crossing near Dewart.  The train had been rerouted from the main line due to a wreck, and witnesses stated that it was traveling at a high rate of speed.

The crossing was protected by a watchman during part of the day, but was unguarded when the accident occurred.

In December of 1950, three brothers ages 13, 13 (the two were born 11 months apart) and 11, had received bb guns and were firing them "promiscuously" in the area. A passenger coach on Train 570 at Dewart had one of it's windows pierced, and a woman was nearly hit.

"The train was passing between the  Dewart Creamery and the overhead crossing outside of Dewart,  at 4:45 pm. The 57o Train leaves Sunbury every day at 3:47 pm for Harrisburg, but it was running late last Tuesday"

(The boys were not named, but the article did mention that there were 5 other children in the family)

In January of 1929, 39 year old Allen Mincemoyer of Watsontown was killed when a school bus he was driving was hit by the Dewart Milk train.

The man had taken a load of children to the Dewart school and was on his way home. He did not notice the approach of the train.

The Dewart Train Wreck Of 1918

November 1970

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"On the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, about three miles north of Dewart, is the distillery of John Eyster, a frame building forty five by sixty feet, built in 1866"

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Often the building that is falling down near the overpass, along the tracks in Dewart is confused as the old train station.  That building was the Dairyman's League building.  See mention of it in this newspaper article:

In September of 1930, the Miltonian reported that "work of preparing the approaches to the overhead crossing which is to be erected near the plant of the Dairyman's League at Dewart..."

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