Dunns Station, Pennsylvania

Last updated March 26, 2019

Dunns Station is an unincorporated, rural village located in the southern part of Morris Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. It is located near the intersection of Dunns Station Road (State Route 221) and Conger Road.

Morris Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,105 at the 2010 census.

Pennsylvania Route 221 is a 31-mile-long (50 km) state highway located in Greene and Washington Counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at PA 188 near Jefferson. The northern terminus is at PA 231 in Acheson.

The community came into being with the opening of the Waynesburg and Washington Railroad in 1877. Stations were located and often named for the major property owner who sold the right-of-way to the railroad company. In this immediate area, Daniel Dunn (1830–1886) owned approximately 340 acres at that time.

The Waynesburg and Washington Railroad was a 28-mile 3 foot gauge subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad. From the 1870s through the 1920s the line served its namesake towns in Southwestern Pennsylvania. After the 1930s, the line did struggle on, but mostly on paper. Today, all that remains from the railroad's heyday is one locomotive, a few stations, and a few images.

At its peak in the 1920-1930s, there were about a dozen residences in the general locality and a one-room school. The single commercial building containing a general store and post office made up the station. A small warehouse, initially used as a milk shed, was adjacent, as well as a privy. A baseball field by the railroad station provided the venue for community teams during the 1920s through the 1940s, constituting a source of local pride and summer excitement.

One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. While in many areas one-room schools are no longer used, it is not uncommon for them to remain in developing nations and rural or remote areas. Examples include remote parts of the American West, the Falklands, and the Shetland Islands.

As of 2013 the station, warehouse, railroad, and some of the residential units in the vicinity no longer existed. The use of the schoolhouse was discontinued in the late 1940s. A 1979 painting by artist Malcolm Parcell entitled “W and W Railroad – Dunns Station” depicts an early 20th Century view of the locality.

Malcolm Stevens Parcell was an American artist who won the 1925 Carnegie Prize.

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References

Narrow Gauge in Southwestern Pennsylvania – The Waynesburg and Washington Railroad 2003 by James D. Weinschenker
Washington County Chronicles, Hustoricle Tales of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Harriet Branton History Press, 2013

Coordinates: 40°00′58″N80°15′00″W / 40.016°N 80.250°W / 40.016; -80.250

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