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Orbiston Homecoming
will be held
June 1st, 2002 at 12:00
Bring your memories, a picnic lunch and lawnchair!
For more information contact
Marlene Robinson Mitchell
740-762-2521
Orbiston was a town created around an iron furnace which was producing iron from iron ore mines near the furnace in the 1870's. It was a station on the Hocking Valley Railroad and it also had a postoffice, school and many stores. Unfortunately to the people who owned the furnace, a more pure form of iron was found in the Great Lakes and the Orbiston iron was no longer needed. When the furnace went bankrupt the newly created town began to fold as its citizens went to find work elsewhere. When the coal mine's closed down in the 1950's, without work, only a handful of retired people were left in Orbiston. Today there is but one house standing, the Buchman house.
Orbiston, Ohio 10 X coal mine
Copyright 2000 Frank Buhla Collection
Ohio University Archives Library
Orbiston-Goose Run 10X coal mine
Orbiston Ball Players- Mostly coal miners that played on Sundays when off work.
Front row: Ike Mohler, Frank Chesseman, Maurice Murphy, Carl Pierce, Billie Jones and Claud Grinstead
Back row: Charles Pierce, Frosty Hughes, Fred Conger, John Cope, Frank Grinstead, and Webb Mack.
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