STARK COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Current Use	Date Built	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
Alliance		Main St. east of Liberty St.	P	Railroad	Modern	In Use	Brick
Aultman		Century Village, 14653 East Park Street, Burton, OH in Geauga County.	P	Museum	1878	None	Wood
Brewster		SR 93 in town	P	Railroad	1914	In Use	Brick
Canton		Between Cherry and Madison Sts.	F	Business	????	In Use	Brick
Canton		S. Market Ave.	P	Business	198?	In Use	Brick
Canton		1315 W. Tuscarawas	P	Railroad	2004	In Use	Wood
East Sparta		Across the street from 9875 Chestnut Avenue SE	P	Business	????	Gone	Wood
Hartville		Edison & Howard	P	Business	????	In Use	Wood
Magnolia		Behind Magnolia Flouring Mill on S.R. 183	C	Storage	????	Gone	Wood
Massilon		Penn Avenue (runs off of South Erie St. next to the railroad bridge.)	P	Business	????	In Use	Stone
North Canton		Portage Ave.	P	Business	????	In Use	Wood
Osnaburg (E. CANTON)		South Cedar Street	C	Society	1880	In Use	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Alliance		This was the station for the Adams Express Freight Agency which was located near the intersection of Ash and South Webb.
Alliance	AND	Was near the intersection of East Main Street and S. Webb Avenue. This station included the Hotel Alliance with a lunch room and large dining room.
Alliance		The PRR had a large freight station off Patterson Avenue just east of the Alliance Gas & Power Company plant. This freight facility sat between the C&P division tracks and the PFt.W&C division tracks.
Alliance		There were several LEA&W stations in town. I believe the photo in the link to the left is the passenger station on the north east corner of East Market and South Mechanic Streets. This was downtown near the Johnson Building (which can be seen in the photo). The station was later a bicycle shop, then abandoned and torn down sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. A freight station was located at the same intersection on the southeast corner. Another freight house (and possibly an old passenger station) was located just to the north on the corner of southeast corner of East main and South Mechanic. Here is a 1904 MAP showing the location of those three stations. There was also a Mount Union passenger station located on Penn Avenue just south of West Chestnut Street.
Alliance		This was Alliance's first railroad station, built in 1853 by the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad. It was located near the location of East Main Street and Webb Avenue.
Beach City
Beach City
Canal Fulton		This station sat on Market Street just northeast of 1st Street.
Canal Fulton		This station was on Market Street on the river side of the tracks. It was about 125 feet northeast of the B&O station. On early maps (1893 & 1898) the building is clearly marked as the passenger station, but on later maps (1911) the building is just shown as a storage facility. By the 1923 map, the building is gone.
Canton		This combination station was on the corner of North Saxton (now Savannah) and East Tuscarawas Sts. It included a large covered platform and a clock tower.
Canton		The Valley Rwy. had a passenger station and freight station between High and Marion Avenues at the crossing of the Valley Rwy. and the PFt.W&C (PRR). These stations were just northeast of the Canton Glass Company. An 1891 map indicates that this passenger station was not in use by then.
Canton		The original passenger station sat between Cherry and Madison Streets about 100 feet west of the existing freight station. According to maps, this building was still standing, but unused in 1914.
Canton		Built in 1909, this station was on Market Street South at the location of the existing Amtrak station and replaced the original PFt.W&C station (later a freight stations) that is still standing near the Cherry St. overpass. The station was torn down in 1976.
Canton		This station was on the east side of the tracks between Tuscarawas St. South and 2nd St. SW. The B&O also had a freight station on between Cherry Ave. SE and Rex Avenue across the tracks from the Bloom & Klein Fruits and Produce facility.
Canton		There was a freight station on Cherry Ave. SE across the street from the B&O freight station listed above. The NKP freight house was on the east side of Cherry.
Congress Lake		This lake is just north of Hartville. Anyone have a better photo of the station?
East Sparta		This was a predecessor to the station listed above that is still standing. This was the original depot north of town. It was a victim of numerous flooding so a new depot was built south of town on the new alignment that went around the west side of town.
Harmon
Justus
Limaville		This station was located at the east end of Church Street (across Iowa Ave.). The interurban station was also at this end of Chruch Street.
Louisville		This passenger station sat on North Depot Street Near . The freight house (which can be seen in the photo) was directly SW on the passenger station. Both of these stations were gone by 1933. The 1933 Sanborn map shows a different freight station at that location and no passenger station. However, the map also shows some fire ruins nearby, so perhaps the station was destroyed by fire.
Magnolia
Massilon		The CL&W passenger and freight stations were on the west side of the tracks between Main and Water Streets with the passenger station bordering Main and the freight station bordering Water. Later only the passenger station was at that location and a "new" freight house was built on the south side of Main St. Here is a photo of that B&O freight station.
Massilon		This station was on the south side of Main Street just west of the stone bridge that crossed the Tuscarawas River (where Lincoln Way NW crosses the river now). The W&LE freight house was on the north side of Main at the same location. There was a small cigar/candy shop (later a restaurant) wedged between the station at the end of the bridge.
Massilon		The freight station was to the northeast of the passenger station on Penn Ave. (formerly Railroad Street) at the end of Albright Street. The building itself was on a siding track that ran right next to Penn Ave.
Middlebranch		This station was at the bend in Depot Street NE.
Navarre		This station was located near the corner of Church and Basin streets on the south side of the tracks.
Navarre		In the early days, there were both CC&S and W&LE stations in town. The W&LE combination station was on the west side of Main Street just south of the canal and Navarre Mills. The station was gone by 1911 as it, and the line, had become redundant. By that time the W&LE tracks were abandoned or torn out to the east of Main Street, but kept in on the east side as a spur to serve Navarre Mills.
North Freedom (Alliance)		Freedom is one of three small towns that merged to become Alliance in 1854. Which RR would this station have belonged to?
Paris
Robertsville
Waynesburg
1898 STARK COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Aultman (B&O) - The station is located at Century Village. Brewster (W&LE) - This is a large brick structure that houses the W&LE dispatchers, the yardmasters, and the crew callers. Canton (PFt.W&C) - According to old Sanborn Fire maps (1891), this is the PFt.W&C freight station. This station can be seen to the east of the Cherry Ave. overpass. The building is somewhat run down but still has the fancy trim under the eves. The old passenger station sat about 100 feet to the west of this building. Canton (Amtrak) - The Amtrak station sits on the site of the former Pennsylvania RR station. All that remains of the former station is the tunnel that led from the station to the passenger shed between the tracks. Osnaburg (CC&S) - Station is now used by the East Canton Model Railroad Club. Tracks are used for bringing plastic pellets to NEXPAC Inc. by W&LE Railway.