Laurys station (Lehigh Valley Railroad)
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| Coordinates | 40°43′24″N 75°31′49″W / 40.7234°N 75.5302°W | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1855 | ||||||||||||
| Closed | May 1938 | ||||||||||||
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Laurys station, also known as Laury's station, was a Lehigh Valley Railroad station in Laurys Station, Pennsylvania. Both the station and locality drew their name from David Laury, a local notable who established a hotel on the site in 1832 and later served as postmaster.
Service began at Laurys in 1855 with the opening of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.[1] As was common for that era, it used a locally-constructed building.[2] The railroad added an engine house in 1859.[3]
The railroad constructed a new brick passenger station building in 1884.[4] It was designed by Walter Gilman Berg. It was a single-floor structure with, appropriately for the region, a slate roof. The building measured 34 by 25 feet (10.4 m × 7.6 m). It contained separate waiting rooms for men and women, including toilets for both; an agent's office; and a baggage room.[5]
Passenger service to Laurys ended in May 1938; the station and freight house were town down the following September.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Mathews & Hungerford 1884, p. 528
- ^ Sayre 1899, p. 18
- ^ Sayre 1899, p. 39
- ^ "New Depot". The Allentown Democrat. April 16, 1884. p. 2. Retrieved August 7, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Berg 1893, p. 296
- ^ "Laurys Fading Off The Map". The Plain Speaker. September 24, 1938. p. 5. Retrieved August 7, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
References
[edit]- Berg, Walter Gilman (1893). Buildings and Structures of American Railroads: A Reference Book for Railroad Managers, Superintendents, Master Mechanics, Engineers, Architects, and Students. J. Wiley & Sons.
- Mathews, Alfred; Hungerford, Austin N. (1884). History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Everts & Richards.
- Sayre, Robert H. (1899). Lehigh Valley railroad co. Preliminary report upon the location of the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna railroad (now Lehigh Valley R.R.) August, 1852. Annual reports of superintendent and engineer, 1855 to 1863, from manuscript reports of Robert H. Sayre. New York.
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