Strawn Train Depot Comes Back Home -- May 2014
The historic Strawn train depot arrived home and was relocated to Memorial Park on May 17, 2014, 34 years after being sold and moved in 1980. After the depot closed in 1976, it was moved to Thurber next to the Smokestack Restaurant, where it remained for several years. It was later bought and moved to Oakdale where the warehouse portion of the depot is now used as part of the Oakdale Steakhouse. The office portion of the depot (with ticket windows and waiting rooms) was placed in a field next to the owner’s house. In 2012, after learning that the owner was willing to donate the depot and wanted Strawn to have it back, the Museum Board (Bill D. Hinkson, John Ferguson, Shirley Lindsay, Lou Jones, Diana Hinkson) began raising money and planning its return.Â