In This Place: Brookhaven, Mississippi - Part Two
After lunch on the day of our visit to Brookhaven, I walked across the tracks to get a better look at the railroad depot. At the northern end of the depot, in a small Amtrak shelter, a small group of people were waiting in the heat for the City of New Orleans, which runs daily between Chicago and New Orleans. I missed seeing it, but freight trains rumbled by the station all day.
The railroad came to Brookhaven in 1858, opening markets for locally produced timber and cotton and bringing prosperity to the area. During the Civil War, the tracks were torn up by Union soldiers and rail service was not restored until 1867.
The Brookhaven depot, consisting of a passenger station and freight house, was built in 1907 by the Illinois Central Railroad. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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