The station at 210 S. Charlotte St., which served the Manheim community from 1881, when it was built, until 1976, when it closed, will host a grand reopening from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

“Everyone is welcome,” said Bea Kreiner, curator of Manheim Historical Society, which bought the building in the 1980s.

There will be a ribbon cutting followed by tours of the station, which now serves as the historical society’s museum.

The historical society’s trolley car, which once operated on the Conestoga Traction Co. line, will be on display, and Stiegel Valley Model Railroad Club, located adjacent to the station, will be open.

The interior of the building was redone, including the large freight-storage area. The front two rooms are waiting rooms — one for men and one for women — a common practice in the Victorian era of the late-19th and early 20th centuries.

Next is the freight office, with the stationmaster’s desk and telegrapher’s area. Some items in this room, including the desks and some lamps, are original to the station.

“We tried to make those rooms look as if the workers in the freight office just got up and left their desks,” Kreiner said.

The freight-storage area features three walls of display cases. One houses a collection of railroad memorabilia owned by Lancaster collector Tim Landis. Another houses the museum’s artifacts depicting transportation in Manheim, from foot to horse-and-carriage to train and trolley.

The third case holds more than 60 original pieces of memorabilia from the town’s founder, Henry W. Stiegel, whose Manheim glassworks once was known throughout Colonial America. This collection includes glass bottles, goblets and items from the baron’s mansion, including an ornately designed tile that was part of Stiegel’s fireplace, and a cast-iron lion’s head door knocker. There also are three iron Stiegel stove plates.

The collection of Stiegel items is unique. The items largely are on loan from private collectors as well as from Hershey Museum and State Museum of Pennsylvania.

“We want people to come and see the Stiegel stuff,” Kreiner said. “There are over 60 pieces of Stiegel glassware and stove plates here. You just don’t see that. Corning Glass center doesn’t have 60 pieces. It’s amazing the people were so generous to allow us to display their precious glassware.”

The Stiegel display also will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through November.

The upper floor of the station holds John D. Kendig Library, which includes a display case highlighting Manheim industries that used the railroad to ship their products.

Also on this level are a cannon once used by the town’s Grand Army of the Republic post — which was comprised of Civil War veterans — two old sleighs and the town’s last U.S. Mail carriage.

Kreiner said the society has spent about $800,000 on the refurbishment since it began in 2001.

Funding was provided through Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Transportation Enhancement Program, as well as through donations from area businesses and residents.

How does Kreiner feel seeing the finished project? “I don’t think there are words for it, really,” she said.

The station — one of several in the area built for Reading & Columbia Railroad by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness — was the second station in the town after the railroad arrived in 1862. Not much is known about the first station.

Today, the train station is one of four old buildings owned by Manheim Historical Society.