Ken Karlewicz is finishing up a book on our local railroad. He asked an interesting question … when was the current passenger depot built … there are several dates documented in different books.
So, I put down my title of raconteur, picked up my title of historian and set out on a 120-year-old fact-checking mission.
This article in the 2-May-1902 County Post (one of many names our Wash Cnty Post newspaper had over the years) talks about the original 1852 depot being moved along Main Street on its way to Pleasant Street and the new depot being opened.
The article says that until the depot was completed, the ticket office was housed in the Crocker Building which is today the Cambridge Co-op.
I’m going back to being a raconteur, more fun ;- )
