Brownstown Depot

ID: 2864 ~ Source: Jackson County Public Library, Photo donated by Sara Marling Lucas ~ Date: c. 1940s.
This file appears in: Eisenhower Funeral Train
Brownstown Depot

The Brownstown Depot as it appeared in the 1940s.

This file appears in: Eisenhower Funeral Train

By Kathi Linz
The crowd began to gather early on April 1, 1969, waiting for a train bound west to Abilene, Kansas. It was cold and drizzly, but that didn’t prevent thousands of people from paying their final respects to World War II General and former President…