WARREN COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad 		Current
Location		 Type Current
Use		 Date
Built		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Franklin
AND
 SE Corner of Main and 6th Streets
(GPS: 39.557332,-84.305563)		 P Civic ???? In Use Wood
Lebanon Broadway & Mechanic P Railroad 1976 In Use Wood
Morrow
AND
 Railroad St. C Business Pre
1895		 None Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
Butterworth The station was located at the bottom of the pasture of what was the Butterworth (Foster?) Stone House off Butterworth Road. It was downstream from the Butterworth Girl Scout Camp, Maineville. Tim Butterworth writes: "My ancestors gave the land for the track and the station, and Clarkson Butterworth, who may have done some of the surveying, was given a pass to ride free on the railroad for his lifetime plus 2 days."
Carlisle
AND
 Station was built by the CH&D, but used by both RRs.
Corwin The passenger station was on east side of Corwin Avenue the north side of the tracks (GPS: 39.525296,-84.078273) while the freight station was on the west side of Corwin Avenue.
Cozaddale The station pictured was most likely the second station here and was on the SE side of the tracks on the NE side of Cozaddale Road (CR-174). The first station was a combination depot/store and was on the NW side of the tracks (as shown on the 1875 map).
Fort Ancient This hotel also served as the station.
Fosters The station was on the north side of Old 3C Highway (CR-10 at Maineville Road) on the east side of the tracks (GPS: 39.322119,-84.251337).
Franklin This is the original combination Big 4 station that sat on the NE side of 4th Street (GPS: 39.559557,-84.302377). It served passenger traffic until the Carlisle Cutoff went into operation in 1911. After that it was used solely as a freight station. 
Franklin This station was on the corner of Park Avenue and Cedar Street (GPS:39.566124,-84.313073).
Freeport  
Hageman  
Hammel
(Senior)		  
Kings Mills The first passenger station here and a freight station were burned down as the result of a huge gunpowder explosion on July 15, 1890. According to the Newark Daily Advocate from July 16, 1890, "Ten or more persons killed, and over thirty seriously injured. Two empty freight cars were being switched onto a side track where a car containing 500 kegs of gunpowder was standing. As the cars struck there was an explosion, and immediately afterward another car containing 800 kegs of gunpowder exploded. WILLIAM FRAULEY, a brakeman in the employ of the Little Miami, was blown to atoms. Five other persons, supposed to be employes of the powder company, were killed."
Kings Mills This station was located along the tracks off Grandin Road. (GPS: 39.351444,-84.241903)
Lebanon Original passenger station was located on the southeast corner of the intersection of South Broadway and East South Streets.
Level
(Windsor)		 This was an early station. It is shown as a depot/store on the 1875 county map. It was on the NE side of Morrow-Woodville Road on the south side of the tracks (GPS: 39.28483,-84.05005).
Lytle  
Mason This station was on the south side of Western Avenue (Dr. Tom Fox Way) on the SE side of the tracks (GPS: 39.359151,-84.316083).
Middletown  
Middletown Junction  
Miltomson  
NEw Columbia
(Pleasant Plain)		  
Oakland  
South Lebanon
(Deerfield)		 This station was located on the west side of what was formerly called Depot Street (now Milam Drive). The station was on the south side of the tracks along what is now Zoar Road. In the early days, there was a freight depot on the north side of the tracks as well.
Stokes  
Union Village  
1898 WARREN COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Franklin (CN & CCC&St.L) - Originally just a CN station, this building also served the Big 4 after the Carlisle Cutoff went into operation in 1911. This was the second CN passenger station at this location. The first station, built by the CJ&M, was across the tracks with frontage on Main Street (old name Center Street).

Lebanon (Replica) - Replica of the CL&N depot. The Lebanon, Mason, and Monroe scenic railway ceased operations in Lebanon at the close of business December 21, 2008. Two bridges between Lebanon and Hageman on the former Cincinnati, Lebanon, & Northern (later PRR) line no longer passed engineering inspections. LM&M plan to continue operating excursions but will not be operating in Lebanon. The Lebanon Garden Club owns the replica station and plan to continue operation as a tourist stop/recreation area. As of 2009, the two bridges have been repaired and the LM&M is back in operation.

Morrow (C&MV and PCC&St.L) - What was once a busy railroad town and station, Morrow is now known as a refreshment stop on the bicycle/hiking/walking/horse riding path on the Greater Miami Bicycle trail. Just south of the station is where the PRR branch to Lancaster (former C&MV)left the Columbus to Cincinnati main of the PRR (former PCC&St.L). Thus the station served both lines as the Lancaster branch ran along the east side of the station while the Columbus-Cincinnati main ran along the west side of it. A lonely signal still looks over the former right of way. In the early years (1895) there was a roundhouse across the tracks to the southeast.