Bendersville ( colloq. "Asper's Station" by 1888) was a

Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (G. & H. R. R.) was a railway line of Pennsylvania from Hunter's Run southward to Gettysburg in the 19th century. The north junction was with the South Mountain RR, and a crossing with the Hanover Juncti ...

(G&H) stop east of

Bendersville, Pennsylvania Bendersville is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 736 at the 2020 census.https://data.census.gov/all?q=Bendersville+borough,+Pennsylvania Geography Bendersville is located at (39.982466, -77.249608). Ac ...

, with facilities of Frederick A. Asper that included a 3-story brick flour mill, grain elevator, and warehouse built in 1883 (the latter's roof blew off in 1904). The depot was opposite the mill over the tracks. The G&H had begun shipments to Asper's mill by November 28, 1883, and when the route was complete to Gettysburg, Bendersville Station was initially the only stop designated as "station" on the original 1884 railroad schedule. The locale's additional industrial facilities subsequently included the 1888 Peters planing mill, a 1902 tannery, the Allen flint mill, a 1922 canning plant, and the 1893 Penn Tile Works (

encaustic tile Encaustic tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are usually of two colours but a tile may be composed of as many as six. The pattern appears inla ...

by J. W. Ivery). After the Asper's mill property was sold in 1913, the Aspers Produce Company and Columbia Flint Mill were acquired by the 1919 Aspers Fruit Products Company (liquidated in 1926). The railroad station was eliminated by the development of the concrete highway completed in 1927, the Glen Gary Shale and Brick plant at Aspers became a Pfaltzgraff facility in 1973, and a new post office building was erected in 2001 (the 1934 post office was in Clyde Plank's warehouse). The locale (Bendersville Station) and populated place (Aspers, the original post office name) were separately designated in 1979 for the

Geographic Names Information System The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of ...

, and the Aspers

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

was named in 2008 to replace the 2000 census' Bendersville Station-Aspers CDP.

References

{{Reflist Demolished railway stations in the United States Railway stations in Pennsylvania Railway stations in the United States opened in 1884 Former Reading Company stations Transportation buildings and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania