Rundown Church Street Station

Rundown Church Street Station

Rundown Church Street Station

Orlando (Fla.)

Railroads--Florida

The Old Orlando Railroad Depot, located at 127 West Church Street in Orlando, Florida, in the 1970s. The station was first constructed in 1880 connecting Orlando to Sanford. After the railroad was bought up by the Plant System in 1883 from the South Florida Railroad, it was extended to Tampa. This brought a large boom to Orlando's economy shipping cattle and lumber, but chiefly citrus. By 1926, the depot was becoming too small for the volume of trade going through, so the depot was moved south to what is today the Amtrak Station. The depot became run down until the mid-1970s when Church Street Station opened up around the depot and stayed open until the early 2000s. Now the station is used as a stop along the SunRail Tram system.

Digital reproduction of original 7 x 10 inch black and white photograph: Prints Collection, call number PR13725, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

1970-1979

Owen, Christopher

Original 7 x 10 inch black and white photograph: Prints Collection, call number PR13725, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

Digital reproduction of original 7 x 10 inch black and white photograph.

Prints Collection, call number PR13725, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

Central Florida Railroad Depots Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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7 x 10 inch black and white photograph

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Church Street Station, Downtown Orlando, Florida

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Copyright to this resource is held by the State Library and Archives of Florida and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Dr. Connie L. Lester's American Economic History Undergraduate Class, Spring 2014

Covington, Adrian

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