Place Type: Train Station

Completed around 1853, Atlanta’s first Union Depot — often called the “Car Shed” — was the city’s first true union station, serving the Western & Atlantic, Georgia, Macon & Western, and Atlanta & West Point railroads. Designed by architect Edward A. Vincent, the massive four-track train shed stood in the center of State Square, then the heart of Atlanta, roughly where Wall Street runs today between Pryor Street and Central Avenue. The depot reflected Atlanta’s emergence as a railroad crossroads. Built to replace earlier, inadequate facilities, it became the focal point around which the young city grew. By the eve

The current Clarksville depot dates to 1881, when the Louisville & Nashville Railroad selected a site near Bradley’s Brickyard for a new passenger station.