Bendersville
General information
Location	Bendersville, Pennsylvania United States
Coordinates	39°58′37″N 77°13′23″W / 39.97694°N 77.22306°W / 39.97694; -77.22306
Operated by	Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad
History
Opened	1884
Services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Centre Mills toward Gettysburg Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway Gardners toward Carlisle
Location
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Bendersville ( colloq. "Asper's Station" by 1888) was a Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (G&H) stop east of Bendersville, Pennsylvania, with facilities of Frederick A. Asper ^[1] that included a 3-story brick flour mill, grain elevator, and warehouse ^[2] built in 1883 ^[3] (the latter's roof blew off in 1904). ^[4] The depot was opposite the mill over the tracks. ^[3]

The G&H had begun shipments to Asper's mill by November 28, 1883, ^[5] and when the route was complete to Gettysburg, Bendersville Station was initially the only stop designated as "station" on the original 1884 railroad schedule. ^[6] The locale's additional industrial facilities subsequently included the 1888 Peters planing mill, ^[7] a 1902 tannery, ^[8] the Allen flint mill, ^{[9] [10]} a 1922 canning plant, ^[11] and the 1893 Penn Tile Works ^[12] ( encaustic tile by J. W. Ivery). ^{[13] [14]} After the Asper's mill property was sold in 1913, ^[2] the Aspers Produce Company and Columbia Flint Mill ^[15] were acquired by the 1919 Aspers Fruit Products Company ^[16] (liquidated in 1926). ^[17] The railroad station was eliminated by the development of the concrete highway ^[18] completed in 1927, ^[19] the Glen Gary Shale and Brick plant at Aspers became a Pfaltzgraff facility in 1973, ^[20] and a new post office building was erected in 2001 ^[21] (the 1934 post office was in Clyde Plank's warehouse). ^[22]

The locale (Bendersville Station) ^[23] and populated place (Aspers, the original post office name) ^[24] were separately designated in 1979 for the Geographic Names Information System, ^[25] and the Aspers census-designated place was named in 2008 ^[26] to replace the 2000 census' Bendersville Station-Aspers CDP.

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