The first New Freedom Station was built in the 1860s and later expanded. Passengers boarding trains here could travel north to York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or south to Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and the station also connected with the eastbound Stewartstown Railroad. For 100 years, it stood at the center of town life as passengers and goods came and went, while it also housed a telegraph office and served as a mail depot. The last passenger train left New Freedom Station on April 30, 1971. It was restored in 2003 to its 1940s appearance. New Freedom was named for Peter Free, the son of a German immigrant who purchased land here in the 1780s, and with the railroad's arrival the town prospered. By 1885, local businesses included a lumberyard, gristmill, brickyard, cigar factories, and an ice cream factory. The building reflects the Northern Central Railway's standard design for a rural station, and three identical stations remain intact today between Baltimore and Lake Erie on the old NCR line.