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East Tennessee & Western North Carolina (ET & WMC) Depot

East Tennessee & Western North Carolina (ET & WMC) Depot is a Tennessee historical marker in Johnson City, Washington County.

Washington Co., Corner of State of Franklin Rd and Buffalo St., Johnson City

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Constructed in 1891 as a union depot for the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (nicknamed “Tweetsie”) and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, the building served as a passenger railway terminal until 1940. From 1912 until 1930, it served ET & WNC only. The narrow gauge ET & WNC Railroad was a construction marvel along its mountainous 60-mile route between Johnson City, Tennessee and Boone, North Carolina.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1894 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1904 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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