Railroad: Short Hills Train Station Looking West, 1897

Photograph

Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society

Photograph of the Short Hills Train Station Looking West

Wyckoff Collection

Name/Title

Railroad: Short Hills Train Station Looking West, 1897

Entry/Object ID

1999.043.057

Description

This station was built by Stewart W. Hartshorn as an inducement to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad to have commuter trains stop at this new village. Upon the railroad's promise to stop 2 trains daily, he provided the land and spent $2,500 to build the station. Hartshorn also hired and paid a station master and maintained the station for many years. When Hartshorn built the station, he had the railroad agree that underpasses should be constructed so as to eliminate three grade crossings and furnished the necessary land. On July 2, 1892, the original depot was deeded to the railroad and remained in use until February 1907, when it was demolished to make way for a new station.

Collection

Mrs. Sydney Wyckoff

Acquisition

Accession

1999.043

Source or Donor

Mrs. Sydney Wyckoff

Dimensions

Dimension Description

7 5/8 x 9 1/2" print

Reproductions

Notes

Thomas Townsend Tabor, The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, p. 100.