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Commercial Building (Midland Railway Freight Depot)

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1916. 307 Stiles Ave.

Originally built for the Midland Railway, the Savannah and Atlanta Railway freight depot at Stiles Avenue was in operation until at least the mid-1950s, after which various supply and distribution companies used the building. Its conventional headhouse-and-shed configuration includes a porte-cochere with exaggerated compound brick piers. To the east stands the later and simpler Seaboard Air Line Railway Freight Station (1929; 703 Louisville Road). A mile to the west along Louisville Road stood the Ten Broeck Race Course, where in 1859 the largest slave sale on U.S. soil took place, involving 436 slaves in an event often called “The Weeping Time.”

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

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Eichberg Hall Shed, SCAD (Down-Freight Warehouse, Central of Georgia Railroad)

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Commercial Building (Midland Railway Freight Depot)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-7.7.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 135-135.

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