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Today, The West Point Depot and Museum is again the hub for tourists and locals alike.

For the train enthusiast,

  • State depository for relics recovered from the Chattahoochee River. Includes items from the native Creek Indian tribe and Battle of Fort Tyler.
  • A caboose, restored and retrofitted to represent a day in the life of a railroad worker.
  • A historical replica of CV Railway’s “Cotton for the Looms of West Point” boxcars used to deliver raw cotton to the textile mills of the West Point Manufacturing Company.
  • A scale model of the Chattahoochee Valley Railway and the mill villages along its route in the 1950’s. Also features an extensive collection of railway tools.
  • Memorabilia from the Chattahoochee Valley Railroad Company. The Chattahoochee Valley Railway was a short-line railway, purposed with delivering raw cotton to the textile mills of the West Point Manufacturing Company. Its last run was in 1992.
  • A standard gauge train set, on loan by the Lanier family.

 

 

 

 

  

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West Point, GA 31833 | westpointdepot.com