Museum
Our museum is located in beautiful Heritage Park in the Borough of Sinking Spring. Tours are by appointment only so please get in touch if you would like to see our collection.
Yearly we have an open house, usually in September, and we invite the public to visit us and our museum. Please check the events page for the open house date.
History of the Passenger Station
The Sinking Spring passenger train station was built 1872 and the freight house in 1858. They served Sinking Spring rail passengers along the Reading Railroad’s Lebanon Valley Line for nearly a century by the time rail service was discontinued in the 1960s. Both structures had fallen into disrepair by the 1970s. The Sinking Spring Historical Society was formed in 1977. The “Save Our Station” committee formed for the explicit purpose of finding a way to preserve these structures shortly after. The SOS project was headed by Richard Barnett and took over a year of feasibility studies and fundraising. In December of 1978 the committee’s hard work paid off; the station was relocated from its original location in front of The Railroad House on Woodrow Avenue to its current location in Heritage Park, less than a quarter mile west.
