HILLSBOROUGH TRAIN STATION

1960 (freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orangecountync/places/train_sta/train_sta.html)

Built by the Southern Railroad circa 1910, the train station last saw passenger service in 1964, with the last passenger train leaving the station on March 18, 1964.

Last passenger train leaving Hillsborough, 03.18.1964 (Photo by Roland Giduz, courtesy of Tom Campanella/builtbrooklyn.org)

Last passenger train leaving Hillsborough, 03.18.1964 (Photo by Roland Giduz, courtesy of Tom Campanella/builtbrooklyn.org)

The station sat abandoned for a number of years thereafter.

1970ish (photo excerpt via Orange County Historical Museum/Cone Mills)

1973 (via freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orangecountync/places/train_sta/train_sta.html)

1973 (via freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orangecountync/places/train_sta/train_sta.html)

Sometime after 1973, the station was, sadly, demolished.