Hendersonville, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Depot

Hendersonville, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Depot is a Tennessee historical marker in Sumner County.

Old Shackle Island Road adjacent to railroad tracks, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075

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At this site was the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Depot, located 170 miles from Louisville, Kentucky, and 18 miles from Nashville. The railroad extended for 269 miles of track in 1860, and was of vital strategic importance to both sides during the Civil War. It changed hands multiple times and was damaged and rebuilt. The course of the war in the West was impacted by this strategic supply artery connecting the Midwest to the South. A Confederate soldier was killed during a skirmish here with Union soldiers on Nov. 15, 1864.

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Historical maps covering this location

1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Greenbrier, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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