There has been much in the local press recently about plans and designs for the new Steamship Authority ticket office and waiting room. This week's Dispatch will highlight past history of that wharf, which served both the ferry service and a busy train station.
The Old Colony Railroad, originating in Boston, was extended from Monument Beach in what is now Bourne to Woods Hole during the years 1870 to 1872. The train terminal was out on the steamship wharf and contained in a long wooden Victorian building with a monitor structure at the peak to allow steam and gases to vent.