Morristown station (Indiana)
railway station in Morristown, the United States of America
Morristown station is a historic train station located at Morristown, Indiana. It was built in 1867–1868 by the Junction Railroad, and is a simple one-story, rectangular, building of pinned beam construction. It has a gable roof that extends to shelter a loading platform for 30 feet (9.1 m). The building served as both a grain elevator and train depot. It was moved to its present site in 1976 to prevent it from demolition.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as the Junction Railroad Depot.
“Morristown station (Indiana)” enters the record as railway station in Morristown, the United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Morristown, station and Indiana can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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