In 1871, Prince Edward Island undertook a railway project to connect Georgetown in the east with Alberton in the west.

[1] The project greatly increased its debt, which provided impetus for the colony of British North America to evaluate several options, eventually joining Canadian Confederation on 1 July 1873 under the Prince Edward Island Terms of Union.

[8] The station building has a frontage of 68 by 28 feet (20.7 by 8.5 m)[8] and is constructed from fieldstone[9] obtained from western Prince County and New Brunswick.

[8] It is a rectangular building with a steeply pitched[1] cross-gable roof, the ends of which are decorated in Tudor style.

[1] The roof overhangs the east and west ends of the building, which provided passengers with shade from the sun and shelter from the rain.

[8] A flower garden with concrete lettering spelling the town's name was once installed at the site, but had been removed no later than the 1970s.

[1] It was designated a provincial heritage place under the Heritage Places Protection Act in March 2015, along with five other properties: Emerald Railway Station, O’Leary Railway Station, Lyle House (Birch Hill), St. Anne's Church (in Lennox Island), and the West River Petroglyph Site in Bonshaw.

[15] The Canadian National Railway terminated passenger service on the line in 1969, at which time the station was closed.

The station building has been used as a box office, library, tourist information centre, and as a storage site for the PEI Railway Heritage Association.

[11] A replica of the building was created in 1993 for use as the entrance gate at Canadian World, a theme park in Ashibetsu, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.