Grenada station

Grenada, MS
Grenada station in January 2016
General information
Location	643 1st Street Grenada, Mississippi
Coordinates	33°46′57″N89°47′51″W / 33.78250°N 89.79750°W / 33.78250; -89.79750
History
Opened	September 1859
Closed	September 10, 1995
Rebuilt	c. 1870s, c. 1886, 1907 [1] , c. 1928
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Winona toward New Orleans City of New Orleans Batesville toward Chicago Preceding station Illinois Central Railroad Following station Winona toward New Orleans Main Line Oakland toward Chicago Terminus Grenada  – Fulton West Virginia Junction toward Fulton
Illinois Central Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	87002308
Added to NRHP	April 7, 1988

Grenada station is a former railroad station in Grenada, Mississippi. It was jointly constructed by Mississippi Central and Tennessee and Mississippi Railroads in 1870. The two previous depots were burned during the United States Civil War. The second story and sheds were added by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1926. The building is now used for the Grenada Railroad as its headquarters.

History

The depot c. 1921

The Mississippi Central Railroad reached Grenada in September 1859, ^[3] with the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad following in 1861. The first depot on the site was destroyed by the Union army in 1863 and the second depot in 1865 during the United States Civil War. Following the end of the war, the station was rebuilt several times to handle increasing traffic. By 1921, a total of 20 trains of both the Illinois Central Railroad and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad stopped at Grenada daily. ^[2] The modern station was built around 1928. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1988. Amtrak trains began bypassing the station after September 10, 1995. ^[4] Restoration work under the owners of the building, Gulf & Atlantic Railways, began in 2024. ^[5]

References

1. "Grenada's New Depot Completed At Last". The Weekly Democrat-Times. November 24, 1907. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Grenada County and Grenada---The City Beautiful". The Grenada Sentinel. Grenada, Mississippi. October 21, 1921. pp. 9, 16, 18, 22 . Retrieved 13 April 2025– via Newspapers.com.
3. "The Central Railroad". Vol. XXI, no. 36. Vicksburg, Mississippi. Weekly Vicksburg Whig. September 7, 1859. p. 2. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
4. "New Stops Just Waiting on Amtrak". The Clarion-Ledger. Jackson, Mississippi. September 8, 1995. p. 15. Retrieved November 19, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
5. "Belinda Stewart Architects joins project groundbreaking for Grenada Train Depot". Charleston, Mississippi. The Charleston Sun-Sentinel. March 28, 2024. p. 3. Retrieved 14 April 2025– via Newspapers.com.

External links

Media related to Illinois Central Depot (Grenada, Mississippi) at Wikimedia Commons