NEW BUFFALO — The Berrien County community is invited to The History Center to hear Alvin Kissman give firsthand knowledge about plans and reconstruction of the Pere Marquette Depot, which is now the home of the New Buffalo Railroad Museum.

The event will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 24, at the New Buffalo Railroad Museum, 530 S. Whittaker St. in New Buffalo. The program is free to the public.

In the 1920s, the Pere Marquette Roundhouse was a major terminus connecting the rich trade area of northern Michigan with the Chicago mercantile and shipping markets and served as the major employer for the residents of the New Buffalo area.

The Pere Marquette Railroad later became the Chesapeake and Ohio line and now the CSX line. The museum building is a replica of the original Pere Marquette Depot that existed near the site in the 1920s, when steam locomotives ruled the rails. The original plans were discovered by life-long New Buffalo area residents Nadra and Al Kissman and Ron and Rol Oselka, and the building was built from those original blueprints by Alvin R. Kissman, Dave Ohms and George Slechta.

For more information about Sunday Program series, contact the History Center at (269) 471-1202, email bcha@berrienhistory.org or visit the website berrienhistory.org.