Stevenson junction and Fort Harker

Then

Stevenson was the main junction of the Memphis and Charleston and the Nashville and Chattanooga railroads, with supply depots and warehouses along the lines. Union soldiers and freed slaves built Fort Harker, a 150-foot-square earthen redoubt, on a hill a quarter-mile east in summer 1862 and expanded it in 1864, and the army added another large fort, two smaller redoubts and at least seven blockhouses along the railroads. Rosecrans made his headquarters at Fort Harker in July 1863.

The original depot of about 1852 was destroyed during or shortly after the war.

Now

Museum

The 1872 depot, built on the ruins of the first, is the Stevenson Railroad Depot Museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lines owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern run through Stevenson today.