{"nrhp_refnum":"88000451","name":"Hocking Valley Railway Historic District","other_names":["Hocking Valley Scenic Railway","See Also:Haydenville Historic"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly between Bridge #494 in Logan and Bridge #629 in Nelsonville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nelsonville","county":"Athens County","state":"OH","lat":39.48420898750004,"lon":-82.28101286428472,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-05-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Engineering","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear railroad historic district about 13 miles long between Logan and Nelsonville in Hocking and Athens Counties, Ohio. It includes track, bridges, depot-area buildings and the Logan car shops, with the line first built in 1869-70.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district shows how engineering and technology were applied to moving large volumes of mineral products out of the Hocking Valley. The Logan shops illustrate early twentieth-century industrial self-sufficiency and assembly-line car building. The track, bridges and right-of-way are described as largely unaltered for more than fifty years.","narrative":"This 13-mile railroad corridor runs along the Hocking River valley between Logan and Nelsonville, Ohio. Built in 1869-70 and later upgraded to high design standards between 1900 and 1925, it includes steel track laid in the 1910s and 1920s, original Hocking Valley switchstands marked with the \"HV\" insignia, and a double-span steel girder bridge over the river at Logan built in 1905. At Logan stand a brick baggage room from 1910 in Second Empire style, a small wooden freight station, and several railway sheds. Across the tracks is a car shop complex of glazed brick buildings from 1907-08, where the railway built many of its own cars. The listing rests on the line's role in carrying mineral products out of the region, its engineering, and the unusually intact track, bridges and right-of-way. Today the route is used as a scenic tourist railway.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mt. Vernon (Ohio) Bridge Company (Bridge 494 builder's plate, 1905)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Second Empire; No Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operates as the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway for tourism. The Logan freight station is abandoned and partly demolished, and the car shops now serve as a pipe cutting, threading and storage facility.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.677126-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/88000451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000451/b592d8f2e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000451/b592d8f2e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Ron Bailey","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railway_caboose_No._C-2550_at_the_Hocking_Valley_Scenic_Railway_-_June_2018.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Bailey</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railway_caboose_No._C-2550_at_the_Hocking_Valley_Scenic_Railway_-_June_2018.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986757","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocking_Valley_Scenic_Railway","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5875783"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/athens-county/hocking-valley-railway-historic-district-88000451/"}