Researching First Reference to Dorney

Sat Jul 19 09:03:28 EDT 2025

I add historical sites to Google maps too. I recommend you include a
historical (or current if appropriate) photo when you do this.

Mike Rector

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 6:48 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

> Jim and Ken, thank you!
>
> I’ve added your latest comments to my notes, and where they came from. If
> you come across anything else, please let me know.
>
> For anyone reading this with mild interest, a placename marking the
> location of the Dorney coaling station has been added to Google Maps. I
> encourage others to do the same for their points of interest!
>
> https://maps.app.goo.gl/GDxFtJbMX6eCU6AFA
>
> Matt Goodman
>
> On Jul 18, 2025, at 3:33 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hey Matt
>
> I looked, or tried to look at the employee timetables we had, but one of
> them is missing, I hope just misplaced.
>
> Dorney is not listed in anything prior to 1900.
>
> It is first listed in the Stations and Sidings book No. 36, effective
> September 1, 1912; however, there were no listings prior to that date.
>
> Best
> Ken Miller
>
> On Jul 18, 2025, at 11:09 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
> Matt
>
> I am with you. I know there was a Dorney before 1910.
>
> In looking at the Valuations 1916 there were 3 shanty's at Dorney. Two
> about 14x19 and one 3x5.  That 3x5 is listed as a Tool Box Shanty.  That
> was even smaller than the toilets.  Perhaps the 1901 structure Alex found.
> There are no dates of construction in the valuations.
>
> The first drawing in the N&WHS for Dorney I could find was dated
> 2/12/1909. It was for the foundation for the water softerner.
>
> On Friday, July 18, 2025 at 10:06:01 AM EDT, NW Mailing List via
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Jim. The structure stood until somewhere between 1953 and 1959 -
> pretty durable for gravel!
>
> The capacity from your source is interesting. I have a photo in my
> collection, ca. 1912, with the following caption:
>
> "This is an 880-ton pocket, with sand drying house, boiler house, and
> small overhead dry sand bin.”
>
> I’ll add your 700t reference to my notes.
>
> My project is a history of the place name, potentially for the Pickaway
> County Historical Society. The few locals that know the name associate it
> with a stop on the Scioto Valley Traction interurban. It was that, but
> given it was in far from any public roads, it was effectively only used for
> N&W employees of the plant. My assumption is that the place name came to be
> in 1901 (Alex Schust’s book), but I’m hoping earlier N&W timetables can
> confirm or refine when “Dorney” was first used.
>
> Matt Goodman
>
> On Jul 17, 2025, at 6:15 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
> Matt
>
> I am not sure where you are going but it is rather interesting.
>
> The first time Dorney showed up in my station list was a 1910 N&W station
> list.
>
> A 1917 list of N&W coaling stations contains the following:
>
> Dorney Built 1910 Concrete
> 4 Tracks 8 chutes
> Link Belt 700 ton cap.
>
> I might add the valuations of 1916 and later show construction gravel.  I
> think they forgot to mention cement.
>
> Jim Blackstock
>
>
>
> On Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 02:51:59 PM EDT, NW Mailing List via
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’m gathering some final notes on the Dorney, Ohio coaling station, and
> would like to nail down when that place-name was first referenced for a
> writing project.
>
> The earliest reference I have is in Alex Schust’s book on the Scioto
> Division, where he states a tool house was built at Dorney in 1901.
>
> An 1887 Scioto Valley Railroad public timetable (N&W predecessor) from the
> rails and trails site does not list Dorney.
>
> If any of you have some early, pre 1901, N&W timetables that you could
> check, I’d be very appreciative. Dorney was located just south of
> Circleville Ohio (zooming out a bit, between Chillicothe and Columbus).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt Goodman
> Columbus, Ohio, US
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