Catawissa Station At Milton

 The Catawissa Railroad Station on South Front Street in Milton was first used on January 15th 1871. 

On the 1858 map, there is a passenger, and freight station, by the C.CS. & E. RR Co, south of Mahoning, but north of front street.

In 1874, the "Depot Catawissa" appears near the iron works, at South Front Street.

On all of the Sanborn fire maps, this location is just south of the map limits - except in the early maps where the iron works are featured.

The station was robbed on January 4th 1875

On the 1884 Sanborn map, at the Nail Works is a vault, office, and "R.R. telegraph" building (above the pond, along the tracks).    The Nail works was west of the canal - above South Front Street.  The passenger station, not shown, would have been below the bottom of this photo.

According to the November 15th Lewisburg Chronicle, the Catawissa Freight Station in Milton was destroyed by fire on "Thursday of last week".  [ November 7th 1895]

The Miltonian reported it as a fire at the "old abandoned freight depot of the P & R.R.R.".  The cause was listed as probably from a passing engine, or possibly by tramps "who have long used it as a rendezvous."

1890 Map for perspective.  Showing the Pennsylvania & Reading Railroad

Nail works to the right of the canal

South Front Street to the left alongside the river.

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March 1875 

In 1906, The Catawissa Railroad received permission to lay a new track "about 100 feet west of its current track"

October 5 1906