Orbiston, Ohio
Orbiston was a town created around an iron furnace which was producing iron from iron ore mines near the Hellena Iron Furnace in the 1870's. It was a station on the Hocking Valley Railroad and it also had a post office, school, and many stores. Unfortunately to the people who owned the furnace, a purer 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. The Orbiston church pictured above was dismantled about twenty some years ago.
Click here to see: Orbiston Helen Iron Ore Furnace
Click here to see: Orbiston Post Office
Orbiston Ball Players- Mostly coal miners that played on Sundays when off work.
Front row: Ike Mohler, Frank Cheeseman, 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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