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Fire destroys historic Marlinton depot
Mar 28, 2008 @ 03:20 PM
Herald-Dispatch.com

MARLINTON, W.Va. (AP) _ A bright yellow beacon of the past, a lovingly 
restored train depot along the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, is gone after 
107 years.

Fire destroyed the station in Marlinton, listed on the National Register 
of Historic Places, early Friday morning. The building had housed the 
Pocahontas County Convention and Visitors Bureau and served as a 
reminder of the region's long-ago timber boom.

No one was hurt, but the fire department declared the structure a total 
loss.

"We were the only existing depot that had its original furniture," said 
Shirley Adams of the tourism office.

Among the lost items were a two-seat desk, a semaphore used to signal 
trains and a telegraph. A wall featuring planks of various native woods 
also was destroyed.

The building was renovated sometime after the trains quite running in 1978.

The C&O Railroad was begun in 1868 and finished in 1873, linking 
Huntington with Richmond, Va., and opening up southern West Virginia to 
industrialization.

Pocahontas County has preserved three other depots: the Durbin Depot on 
Route 250; the Clover Lick Depot at milepost 71.2 on the Greenbrier 
River Trail; and the Cass Depot, starting point for the Cass Scenic 
Railroad.

All are on the National Register.


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