Raymond Boston and Maine Railroad Depot, also known as the Raymond Historical Society, is a museum and former railway station located in Raymond, New Hampshire.
Raymond was a stop on the Boston and Maine Railroad's Portsmouth Branch, now the Rockingham Recreational Trail. The Raymond Historical Society restored the depot building and keeps a locomotive, a boxcar, a caboose, and a work car on display at the station. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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