Huntsville Depot
Rail shops, Huntsville, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Rail shops
- Where
- Huntsville, Alabama
- Years
- 1861-1862
- Today
- Museum
HUNTSVILLE DEPOT
Completed in 1860 as the eastern division headquarters of the Memphis and Charleston. In February 1862 Johnston forwarded stores here for his army's march from Nashville. Union forces occupied Huntsville in 1862 and used the depot as a prison for Confederate soldiers.
Then
The depot, completed in 1860, was the eastern division headquarters of the Memphis and Charleston. In February 1862 Johnston forwarded the stores his army needed on the march from Nashville to Huntsville and Decatur.
Union forces occupied Huntsville in 1862 as a strategic point on the railroad and used the depot as a prison for Confederate soldiers, whose graffiti remains on the walls.
Now
Museum
It is the oldest surviving railroad depot in Alabama. The building served for a time as part of the EarlyWorks museums and returned to the City of Huntsville in 2024.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.
Served by
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