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Publication: Palm Beach Post; Date: Apr 11, 2012; Section: Local; Page: 3B
TEQUESTA
All aboard: Historic rail depot is
moving to �upiter
By JODIE WAGNER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
After months of planning, an historic Florida East Coast Railway depot built nearly a century ago will
move about 2 miles from its longtime home off Seabrook Road in Tequesta to a new one in Jupiter.
Once a stop on Henry Flagler's railroad from Jacksonville to Key West, the 22-by-53-foot wooden
structure will be moved Sunday by tractor-trailer from its current location to Sawfish Bay Park on Alternate
A1A in Jupiter.
The move is expected to begin at about 7 a.m., pending state Department of Transportation approval,
and take about three hours to complete, said Jamison Brownie, project manager for the contracting firm
that is coordinating the move.
Rolling road closures are expected along the route, which will begin at Seabrook Road, travel north to
County Line Road, east to Old Dixie Highway and south to Alternate AlA and Sawfish Bay Park, Brownie
said.
The ]upiter and Tequesta police departments wil{ assist with the move.
"They're going to be following us," Brownie Cos. representative Karen McEnerney said. "They'll be
closing the roads as we move down."
The move has been in the planning stages since December, when Tequesta agreed to give the depot to
7upiter if the town paid to move it. Tequesta owns the 2-acre parcel of land on which the structure
currently sits and plans to turn the property into a park. Initial plans were to demolish the depot.
Earlier this year, Jupiter agreed to pay Fort Pierce-based Brownie Cos. $111,370 to move the
single-story structure, which was built in 1915.
°We have a pretty active historic preservation effort," Jupiter Community Relations Manager Kate
Moretto said. °When it was proposed that the depot would be torn down, the council saw it as more of an
opportunity for us to preserve another piece of history."
The Loxahatchee Guild is raising money to restore the depot and turn it into a museum and meeting
room available to rent, past president Mary-Therese Delate said. It also would be available for school
tours.
"It'll be such a point of pride for ]upiter once it gets completed," she said.
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RICHARD GRAULICH/Staff Photographer
The Florida East Coast Railway depot built nearly a century ago will move Sunday about 2 miles from
its longtime home off Seabrook Road; its former home will become a park.
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