Clarkton Depot

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LocationElm and Hester Sts., Clarkton, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°29′21″N78°39′29″W / 34.48917°N 78.65806°W / 34.48917; -78.65806 Coordinates: 34°29′21″N78°39′29″W / 34.48917°N 78.65806°W / 34.48917; -78.65806
Arealess than one acre
Built1915 (1915)
NRHP reference No. 86003463 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 23, 1986

Clarkton Depot is a historic train station located at Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built as a passenger and freight station by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1915. It is a one-story, rectangular frame building measuring 30 feet by 90 feet. The station served the SAL's daily passenger train from Wilmington to its Charlotte station in Charlotte via Hamlet and Monroe. [2]

It was moved to the present site in October 1975. [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 'Official Guide of the Railways,' August 1949, Table 38
  3. Diane Filipowicz and Jerry L. Cross (September 1986). "Clarkton Depot" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
Preceding station Seaboard Air Line Railroad Following station
Abbottsburg Carolina Central Railway Rosindale
toward Wilmington