1839 – B&M RR started at Rockingham Junction

1840 – First Train over Bridge to Exeter

1841 – First Train to Newmarket

1849 – First Train to Portsmouth

1852 – First Train to Concord

Station Built 1891

“correspondence has passed between the Rail Road Commissioners of New Hampshire and the managers of the Boston & Maine and Concord & Montreal railroad systems relative to the erection of a union station at Newmarket Junction, from which it is very certain that the station will be built the coming spring.” – March 7, 1891.

Around 1902, the first point of decline and visual change for Rockingham occurred. The R. E. Graves Restaurant (also known as the Rockingham Cafe) burned. 

April 1971 – 2nd Track removed on the Portland – Boston line

1988 – The Boston and Maine Railroad was the last to run trains on the Portsmouth Branch between Newfields and Manchester, selling the corridor to the state in 1988.

2023/08 – New foundation and site work in preparation of building move

2019/05 – Shawn McGowan purchases the property for planned renovation