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East Hebron Maine train building

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We are a small town Historical Society. All the board members are donating their own time as volunteers. Funds raising is hard work, but we don't shy away from it.
Each year we have our annual yard sale, and what is left over is donated to local charities or other institutions.
Each spring volunteers for another fund raiser roll up their sleeves to provide a lunch for those attending the yearly town meeting.  Volunteers research compile, and publish Historical information to be made available for purchase to keep us going.

We are trying to preserve, and give access to the public all the Historical papers and artifacts we have accumulated. Most months we have a general meeting open to the public free of charge with demonstrations/ lectures on a wide variety of subjects.  
The town acquired the property on which the last remaining building from the East Hebron Maine train station was located.
As a Historical Society we wanted to save the building from  imminent demolition, which is proposed if we cannot raise the needed funds.

It's a small building approximately 18' x 24' .
What we propose to do is lift the building up in order to effect repairs, and afterwards move the building to a suitable spot for the public to experience.   

Funds will first be used to have the building lifted several feet for repairs.
Once stabilized funds will be used to purchase materials that volunteers need for roof, and interior repairs.
Lastly a new "old" front door and paint.  

Since we last updated donations have slowly come in outside of our Go Fund Me page, but we still are working on accomplishing our goal. The Town of Hebron Selectpersons have graciously allowed us to locate the station building on town property approximately 25 feet from where it now sits. The new site has been prepared.    
The building has been jacked up off of the ground two sills replaced, and it's looking much better.
We removed the old office floor to install new floor joists saving as much as we could of the old wood to use as replacement boards on the roof.  Things are looking much better at this point in time.
We had hoped to have had the building moved to the new location before the cold set in, but we will try again when the weather once again warms. It's going to happen we have come so far, and the goal line is in site
 
We sincerely hope you find it worthy of you donation. It would be such a shame to loose a piece of our town history. 

           There once was a train that ran through it.
It was a sleepy little town with hard work all around when horses and wagons held reign.
Wagons transported out goods with the clopping of the hoofs, and people visited in surreys
But that was back in the day then a train came our way, and things suddenly changed for the better.
Now the sleepy town woke to the sound, and the smoke as the new train came powering through it.
The clickety clack and the smoke from the stack must have been quite a sight for the people.
Bringing things from away helped brighten the day, as we shipped apples, and milk to far markets.
            There once was a train that ran through it.
It was once Tubbs Hill road till its name changed one day in a marriage to East Hebron Station.
People could travel much more, and sons went to the war from that little station in East Hebron.
Imagine a time when there were no phone lines, and the latest was read in the paper, when the telegraph beckoned with its dot and its dash the good news, and sometimes the hated.
            There once was a train that ran through it.
They came one day, and took the rails away they said they were no longer needed.
Now most of it’s gone, save for one last swan song of the building from East Hebron Station.
It’s persisted this long, because it was built so strong by hands long since departed.
            There once was a train that ran through it
Now is our chance before it’s erased from our past by those who would tear it asunder
So on some summer’s day as people pass on their way, and wonder of that little building someone will say oh that’s from the day when a train that once ran through it.

Please help,
Thank you from the volunteers at Hebron Maine Historical Society

Organizer

James MacDonald
Organizer
Hebron, ME
Hebron Historical Society
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