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This Friday, September 18, from 4–7 PM, we’re holding our first History Harvest Day at Monkton Station — and we’d love for you to be part of it.
The History Harvest is part of a larger effort now underway to renew and improve the museum at Monkton Station. We are inventorying and documenting the museum’s existing collection, researching the history of the station and railroad, and beginning to plan new exhibits that can better tell the story of this remarkable place.
But the story of Monkton Station can’t be found only in the things already inside the museum. Much of it is still in the hands of families and people who remember the Northern Central Railway, the early years of the NCR/Torrey C. Brown Trail, and the communities along the railroad and trail.
That’s where the History Harvest comes in.
Bring your photographs, documents, railroad materials, or other historical items to Monkton Station. We’ll have equipment and volunteers available to scan many materials while you’re there, so you keep your originals while allowing us to preserve a digital copy for historical and educational use. What we discover may also help shape the stories we tell in the renewed museum.
And history isn’t just photographs and papers. We want to hear your stories, too. If you remember the railroad, Monkton Station, the early years of the trail, or life in the surrounding community, come talk with us. We’ll be collecting memories and oral histories as part of the project.
History Harvest Day — Friday, September 18, 4–7 PM at Monkton Station
Have something that might be interesting? Bring it along. You may have a piece of history we haven’t seen before.
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