Slowly, painstakingly—one window sill, one restored door, one light fixture at a time—the old Union Station railroad depot on Fourth Street is being renovated after sitting abandoned for decades. At least two more years of work lies ahead.
But its owner is in a hurry to capture something that could soon be lost forever—memories of when Union Station was central to the lives of Hendersonians, the stepping-off point for new experiences.
“The depot was the gateway to this community in so many ways,” Allen Brown II, president and CEO of depot owner Railmark Holdings Inc., said in an interview with the Hendersonian…