The North Creek Railroad Station, the northernmost terminus of the Adirondack Railroad, is listed on the State and National Historic Registers as a fine example of a 19th Century rural station. Built in 1871 and remaining remarkably intact, the depot has four rooms that once served as the men’s and women’s waiting rooms, the station master’s office, and the baggage room, while the rest of the complex includes a freight house, tool house, locomotive turntable, and horse barns. At 4:45 a.m. on September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt learned there that President William McKinley had died and that he had become president of the United States. In the 1800s and early 1900s, stage coaches carried passengers from North Creek north to Indian Lake and Blue Mountain Lake, and years later snow trains arrived from Schenectady and New York City, bringing skiers to North Creek’s Ski Bowl and the trails on Gore Mountain. This was the first commercial downhill ski center in New York State and the second in the United States. The outbreak of World War II ended the snow trains, but local industry and the titanium mine in Tahawus, 30 miles north, kept the station operating until 1989. That year the Tahawus mine closed and North Creek’s rail yard was abandoned, and the Canadian Pacific Railroad deeded the depot to the North Creek Railway Depot Preservation Association, which opened a museum there in 2000.