We welcome you to visit and bring the kids for a fun day!
These visitors were enjoying their visit to Heritage Park, and allowed to help run B&M locomotive #27 into the Sanbornville roundhouse using the turntable. This unique journey included a rare passage over the causeway through the Milton / Union pond with a newly established beaver lodge with beavers hard at work. The overall view of the B&M Roundhouse & Maintenance buildings include the newly modeled carpenter shop which is where the devastating fire started in 1911 when the shop crew threw some trash in the furnace just before quitting time at 4 PM.
We are open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon until 4 PM, July through September 24th.
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Directions
Heritage Park is located on the corner of Chapel Street, Railroad Avenue, and Route 125 in Union, To access the site from Boston and southern New Hampshire, take Route 16 North to the Union/Milton Mills Exit 18. Then turn right and head north about two miles to the first railroad crossing where the station is located. Parking is available at the station, freight house, and Union Hotel (Greater Wakefield Resource Center) up the street. To access Heritage Park from points north of Union, take Route 16 South the traffic lights in Union near the Irving gas station, take a right on Route 125, and within 3/4 mile the station will be visible at the railroad crossing. The park and exhibits are handicapped accessible and parking is available immediately adjacent to the station and freight house.
Wakefield's hidden historic jewels await discovery this summer -- by you and your family! The Heritage Park Railroad Museum campus, which includes the Freight House with its extraordinary H/O scale model of the Boston & Maine Railroad line as it served the villages of Wakefield circa 1909, the restored Union Station with its numerous exhibits, the restored 1902 Russell Snow Plow, 1950s-era B&M caboose and the renovated B&M Water Tower have to be seen in person. Exhibits are free.
Wakefield Heritage Commission’s Heritage Park was one stop on the Club’s annual Tour. They enjoyed the HO model of circa 1909 Wakefield with five railroad depots in the Freight house, the Union Railroad Station, 1903 plow car, our caboose and last remaining B&M water tower. Heritage Park is open for the season from 7/1/2023 until 9/24/2023.
Locations Closed for the Season!
Heritage Park Railroad Station is open until September 24!
Heritage park railroad museum
Make a date with local history this season
The museum and gallery at the Heritage Center in Historic Wakefield Corner at 26 Province Lake Road in Sanbornville is open Wednesdays and Saturdays 10 am-12 pm from July 8th to September 3rd.
Heritage Centre of Wakefield Corner
The Heritage Park Railroad Museum campus, which includes the Union Station, Freight House and 1902 Russell Snow Plow exhibit, a 1950s-era caboose, and a Boston & Maine Railroad water tower, is open for visitation Saturday & Sunday noon to 4pm, from July 1st through September 24th.
Freight House
The Freight House will be open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. through September 25th. Come visit and see the H/O scale model of the Boston & Maine Railroad as it served Wakefield circa 1909. Built by a team of volunteers, the layout includes running trains, historically accurate scenery and terrain, and depictions of domestic life and industry of the time.
Blacksmith Shop
Located on Chapel Street in Union, is open most days and times when Heritage Park is open or if not ask a docent for a tour! Here, Commission member and docent Phil Twombley demonstrates a blacksmith's tool.
The Wakefield Heritage Commission welcomes you to visit its historic sites during the 2023 season. Tours for school and community groups and individuals can be arranged by special appointment. Contact the Wakefield Heritage Commission Chair Pam Wiggin at WHChairman@gmail.com, or send a query via email to info@historicwakefield.com for more information.
With sincere appreciation for your support,
Wakefield Heritage Commission
Open Wednesday & Saturday 10 am-12 pm from July 8th through September 3rd.