Waiting for the Train

ID: 2338 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: c. 1900

This file appears in: Vincennes Union Depot

Although degraded a bit by time, this image is believed to be of a crowd forming in anticipation of one of many presidential whistlestops that occurred in Vincennes many years ago.

This file appears in: Vincennes Union Depot

Vincennes Union Depot

By Knox County Public Library

You are now looking at what remains of a once grand structure that was one of the main hubs of activity in the city. In the early 1850s, with the persistence of people like Abner T. Ellis, the railroads arrived in Vincennes to the absolute delight…