Cadiz station served as a busy hub for passenger and freight traffic

The Cadiz Pennsylvania Railroad Station once stood on Lincoln Avenue, on the site where Truss & Panel is located today. The image shown comes from a colored postcard in the collection of the Harrison County Historical Society.

Cadiz Junction was eight miles north of Cadiz, where the locally financed Cadiz Branch met the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cadiz Branch opened for business in 1854. Cadiz Junction was platted in 1851 and was first known as Pennsville. The exact year the depot was built is not known.

The station served as a busy hub for both passenger and freight traffic. Large quantities of wool were shipped from this location. Cadiz Junction also holds a special place in national history: President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s train stopped there in February 1861 as he traveled to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration. Hundreds of area residents gathered to pay their respects to “the man who was to preserve the Union.”

Information is from the Harrison County Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1813–1963.