Clarkton Depot Explained

Clarkton Depot
Location:Elm and Hester Sts., Clarkton, North Carolina
Coordinates:34.4892°N -78.6581°W
Added:December 23, 1986
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:86003463

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.[1]

It was moved to the present site in October 1975.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Notes and References

  1. 'Official Guide of the Railways,' August 1949, Table 38
  2. Web site: Diane Filipowicz and Jerry L. Cross . Clarkton Depot. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1986. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.