Crichton

Crichton was an active area for the Bay Shore, with no less than four businesses requiring service:

Crichton Station was located in a commercial building on the northeast corner of Springhill Avenue and the grade crossing.

The tracks were bordered on both sides by two packed-earth streets:

This is an enlargement of Mobile Cotton Mills from the image above. Notice the row houses to the left (west) of the building for some of the employees.

The Bay Shore mainline is on the right (east) side of the building.

To the south of the mill was Mobile Handle Factory, and it is believed one of the buildings in this image at right, on the west side of the tracks, was this company's home. There is still a building today with a drop-down loading ramp in this area.

Crichton Ice & Fuel was located on the northwest corner of the grade crossing at Springhill Avenue. Beginning in the late 1960's, and continuing in some capacity until the present, the location has been known as Neece Lumber Company.

The Bay Shore station occupied the west end of the building on the northeast corner of the same grade crossing. That building is still visible in this 1940 aerial image, but was torn down by the end of the 1960's. In the 1970's, the large tract of property behind the station would become a collection of retirement apartment towers.