Sagamore station was a railroad station located on Pleasant Street in

Sagamore, Massachusetts , Sigma = Tristan Chick Sagamore is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bourne, Massachusetts, Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,623 at ...

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. It was located across the tracks from the Keith Car & Manufacturing Company.

History

The original station was built by the

Old Colony Railroad The Old Colony Railroad (OC) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, which operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, ...

in 1886. The

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to 1968. Founded by the merger of ...

built a new brick station building in Sagamore in 1909 based on an architectural design that was similar to the

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and West Barnstable stations, both of which stand to this day. All that remains of the former Sagamore station is its foundation.

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Sandwich, Massachusetts Railway stations in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Former Old Colony Railroad stations Former railway stations in Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-railstation-stub