Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot
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QuesterMark
N 34° 00.065 W 081° 02.342
17S E 496394 N 3762276
This marker, with text spanning both sides, stands at one end of the old Depot building in Columbia. There's a duplicate of the marker at the other end of the Depot.
Waymark Code: WM5ZD4
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/06/2009
Views: 15
Marker Text:
(obverse)
This depot, built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1904, was the third passenger depot built in Columbia, following the South Carolina Railroad Depot on Gervais St., built in 1902. This depot and its adjacent baggage room was an alternative to Union Station, which served passengers on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Southern Railway.
(reverse)
This depot and baggage room were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the West Gervais Street Historic District. They served passengers on the Seaboard Air Line Railway (later the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad) until 1991. The relocation of the tracks across Gervais Street was an important step in the revitalization of the Congaree Vista in the 1980s and 1990s.
Erected by the Columbia Development Corporation 2003
Marker Name: Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Building
Marker number: 40 125
County: Richland
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