Great Meadows Railroad Station in N J
by Carol Wisniewski
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Great Meadows Railroad Station in N J
Artist
Carol Wisniewski
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Photo of the Railroad Depot in Great Meadows, Allamuchy, NJ. The station was built in 1882 by the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 23, 1989. The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway built a rail line through Allamuchy in 1882. A passenger station for Allamuchy was built in 1885 and the freight house was built in 1906. Passenger service on the rail line ended in 1933 and the passenger station was removed in 1934, though President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Allamuchy in 1940 via his private railway car, the Ferdinand Magellan. The Lehigh & Hudson River Railway was merged into Conrail in 1976 and the freight house was abandoned. The freight house was in severe disrepair when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and a project to restore the building was started in 2004 by the New Jersey Midland Railroad Historical Society and the Allamuchy Township Environmental Committee. The project is now part of the Save America's Treasures partnership. There are also plans to rebuild the demolished passenger station building.
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April 24th, 2013
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