Gosport station (Indiana)
railway station in Gosport, the United States of America
New Albany and Salem Railroad Station, also known as the Louisville and Nashville (Monon) Railroad Station, was a historic train station located at Gosport, Owen County, Indiana. It was built between 1854 and 1858 by the New Albany and Salem Railroad. It was a one-story, simple brick structure measuring 58 feet wide by 123 feet long. It has been demolished.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and delisted in 1983.
“Gosport station (Indiana)” enters the record as railway station in Gosport, the United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gosport, station and Indiana can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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