Hopewell Borough was settled in 1703 and founded in 1891. It is a picturesque town, located 45 minutes from Philadelphia and approximately one and a half hours from New York, nestled in the foothills of the Sourland Mountains. Visiting the Hopewell Museum provides an interesting look at the past; more than 8,000 objects, including documents related to George Washington, are in the collection. Today, well-kept older homes are set back on quiet, tree-lined streets. Shops in the center of town, mainly purveyors of antiques, occupy white wooden buildings of a bygone era. The town offers single-family homes and apartments. A popular dessert theatre attracts visitors to the borough.
Hopewell Station was built in 1876 by the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad as part of the planned National Railway route between New York City and Washington, D.C. The station was leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway in 1879. Train service to the station was terminated in 1983. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984. Today, this line, part of the old West Trenton line, is down to one single track and sees CSX freight bound for North Jersey. The photos attached were gathered from the net and show the beauty of the building and the trains that blast by quite frequently. Please consider taking some pics and uploading them for all to see. The building is beautiful and I think trains are pretty cool, so I and all of my fellow trainophiles would love to see them! This can be a high muggle area, so stealth will be necessary. Sometimes, muggle activity may make the cache impossible to retrieve.
Remember to BYOP. This can be a family friendly geocache, and the park across the street is often full of children playing. There is a gated playground, open fields and swingset equipment for the little ones and a great vantage point for trainspotting for anyone who is so inclined. Happy caching.