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Re: (rshsdepot) Mannington, WV
thanks for this one Jim, I try to make sure people in our area know of all
depot activities in Southern Ohio, all of WV and Eastern KY. Don Mills
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Dent" <james.dent_@_itochu.com>
To: "RSHS List" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Mannington, WV
> From the WV Times...
>
> Mannington developing ‘Depot Park’
> MANNINGTON
> By Marc G. Auber
>
> Goals: Preserving history, promoting business and recreation
>
> Though deafening whistles, billowing puffs of black smoke and the rumble
of
> the rail are but fading memories, the city’s old train depot stands.
> And it’s completely functional.
> Leisha Elliott, Mannington Main Street’s program director, said the
building
> houses Arrowhead Resources LLC, a “newly formed liability company in the
> energy industry.”
> The structure has been well-maintained and is conveniently located at 104
> West Railroad St. near outfits like North Marion IGA, First Exchange Bank
> and Rite Aid Pharmacy in the Downtown District.
> That considered, MMS members, who serve to preserve history and work to
> promote business and recreation in their community, decided some time ago
> that it would be a good idea to develop a 100-foot strip of land beside
the
> depot.
> MMS and city officials have been devising a plan to build a rail trail
here,
> which would ease right by the depot’s tract.
> “We have been referring to it as the Depot Park,” Elliott said.
> She said David Brown, a Fairmont native who’s in Florida, owns the
property
> and Lenny Stafford and Brad Hibbs lease it for Arrowhead.
> Elliott has received their support and the city has also backed the
project,
> she said.
> She said street department workers recently dug up a segment of an
existing
> sidewalk to make way for conduit that will be laid to light a couple of
lamp
> posts.
> Officials said they have tied loose ends to close the project, and with a
> $6,300 grant from the George W. Bowers Family Charitable Trust, which was
> awarded in October, the project is closer to reality.
> “We’re all legal,” Elliott said.
> In the end, the park will feature picnic tables and benches similar to
those
> at Citizen’s Square on Market Street, a bicycle rack, a new walkway and
> fresh landscaping to include trees, shrubs and flowers.
> “It’s something we have worked on throughout the entire year ... just
coming
> up with the work plan,” Elliott said.
> With money in hand and plan in place, she said it’s possible that the park
> will be complete in the spring.
> “It will just enhance that part of town,” Elliott said. Story created
> Friday, December 21, 2001.
>
>
>
>
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