Auburn Depot
The Auburn Train Depot was built in 1904, based on a Victorian railroad design by Auburn University architecture student Ralph Dudley. Two previous stations serving the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, located on the same site, had been destroyed by fire. The first such station was incinerated du...
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Cultural resources Auburn University, AL; Lee County, AL; Transportation; Railroad; Alabama Register of Historic Place |
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The Auburn Train Depot was built in 1904, based on a Victorian railroad design by Auburn University architecture student Ralph Dudley. Two previous stations serving the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, located on the same site, had been destroyed by fire. The first such station was incinerated during Union General Lovell Rousseau's 1864 raid across Alabama. A lightning strike in 1904 sparked a fire that destroyed the second station. The depot served as the transportation hub of Auburn during the early twentieth century and continued service until 1970. The building was used as commercial office space before being abandoned in 2003. In order to preserve the depot, the Auburn City Council purchased it in 2013. The site was visited by Jefferson Davis during his inauguration tour in 1861. It was also the scene of an 1896 prank involving Georgia Tech's football team. Auburn students greased the tracks, leading to the train overshooting the station by five miles. |
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Auburn DepotEvan IsaacAuburn University, AL; Lee County, AL; Transportation; Railroad; Alabama Register of Historic PlaceThe Auburn Train Depot was built in 1904, based on a Victorian railroad design by Auburn University architecture student Ralph Dudley. Two previous stations serving the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, located on the same site, had been destroyed by fire. The first such station was incinerated during Union General Lovell Rousseau's 1864 raid across Alabama. A lightning strike in 1904 sparked a fire that destroyed the second station. The depot served as the transportation hub of Auburn during the early twentieth century and continued service until 1970. The building was used as commercial office space before being abandoned in 2003. In order to preserve the depot, the Auburn City Council purchased it in 2013. The site was visited by Jefferson Davis during his inauguration tour in 1861. It was also the scene of an 1896 prank involving Georgia Tech's football team. Auburn students greased the tracks, leading to the train overshooting the station by five miles.Alabama Cultural Resource SurveyEvan Isaac2014-12-6Still Image and TextJPEG and Texthttps://omeka.lib.auburn.edu/items/show/136Image: http://www.auburnchamber.net/sites/default/files/resize/SP%20depot-500x313.jpg
Text: Alabama Historical Commission. http://preserveala.org/pdfs/PIP/2010/PIP%204-page%202010.pdf
Auburn Plainsman, June 12, 2014. http://www.theplainsman.com/view/full_story/25280725/article-City-plans-to-renovate-historic-train-depotEnglish |
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