Lot 189
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Lot 189: CD 1000 {Unembossed} [010] Color: Blue Aqua Description: UPDATE: This glass block was found at the Stevenson, Alabama railroad depot in 1990 as can be seen. The broken pieces were put together by Lynda Katonak. Stevenson is located in far NE Alabama between Huntsville and Chattanooga TN. The Stevenson Railroad Depot and Hotel are a historic train station and hotel in Stevenson, Alabama. They were built circa 1872 as a joint project of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, whose lines converged in Stevenson. When the Memphis & Charleston was purchased by the Southern Railway in 1898, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (who had taken over the N&C in 1880) took sole control of the depot and operated it until 1976. It was converted into a history museum in 1982. Both buildings are brick with gable roofs and Italianate details. The depot has a central, second-story tower that was added in 1887. The three-story hotel had a lobby, dining room, and kitchen on the first floor and eight large guest rooms on the upper floors. The buildings were listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1975 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The building is now operated as the Stevenson Railroad Depot Museum and features area railroad and Civil War artifacts.
Stevenson was on the same telegraph line as Gallatin TN in the 1850s, and the distance between the two towns is 130 miles.
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