Gray Gables | |||||||||||
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 Early-20-century postcard of Gray Gables station | |||||||||||
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| Location | Monument Neck Road, Bourne, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°44′1.64″N70°36′52.85″W / 41.7337889°N 70.6146806°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Woods Hole Branch | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1892 | ||||||||||
| Closed | July 18, 1938 | ||||||||||
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Gray Gables station is a former train station in Bourne, Massachusetts.
The station was first built by the Old Colony Railroad around 1892 as a stop for President Grover Cleveland's nearby summer home of Gray Gables. [1] [2] It was located on the Monument Neck Road in Bourne. [1] The station was moved to the site of the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum in Bourne in 1977, and was renovated and moved closer to Aptuxet Road in 2013. [3]
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