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Henderson Depot, Rusk Co, TX
At the Depot Museum complex on High St.
Marker Text
On June 1, 1877, the first train of the Henderson and Overton Branch
Railroad arrived here. Only a freight-loading platform was built at that time.
The depot was finished by 1901 and the warehouse added in 1909. A Fairbanks 1-
and-1/2-ton scale was installed in the floor of the warehouse in 1917. The
station became a community gathering place and shipping center serving the
International & Great Northern and Missouri-Pacific lines. Rail traffic declined
and Missouri-Pacific donated the building to the Rusk County Library. It was
moved to this site in 1977.
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