[Front of Marker]:

This depot, built by the Seaboard Air Line Railway

in 1904, was the third passenger depot built in

Columbia, following the South Carolina Railroad

Depot on Gervais St., built about 1850, and the

Union Station on Main St., built in 1902. This depot

and its adjacent baggage room was an alternative

to Union Station, which served passengers on the

Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Railway.

[Reverse of Marker]:

This depot and baggage room were listed in the

National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as

part of the West Gervais Street Historic District.

They served passengers on the Seaboard Air Line

Railway (later the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad)

until 1991. The relocation of the tracks across

Gervais Street was an important step in the

revitalization of the Congaree Vista in the 1980s

and 1990s.

Marker is on Lady St, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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