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Millers, NY

The New York Central Railroad station in Millers, NY around 1909. Photo found on eBay.

Millers is a hamlet split between the town of Somerset in Niagara County and the town of Yates in Orleans County. The Hojack Line, operated by the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad and later the New York Central Railroad, ran through Millers. The station there was sometimes referred to by the railroad as “Millers” and other times as “County Line.”

The station was located on the north side of the tracks just west of County Line Road.

History

The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad (RW&O) completed construction of the line from Niagara Falls to Oswego in 1875. The RW&O operated the line until March 1891 when the company was leased to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. The line was operated by the New York Central (1891 – 1968), the Penn Central Railroad (1968 – 1976) and Conrail (1976 on). The line was redundant with others operated by Conrail and by the late 1970s the entire line between Oswego and Niagara Falls had been abandoned or, in a few cases, sold to smaller railroads to operate small sections.

A map showing the tracks, road, and buildings near the New York Central Railroad’s Millers station in 1917. Author’s illustration from 1917 New York Central Railroad valuation map V-90/139. National Archives collection.

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