HomeMy WebLinkAboutCS Railroad Depots Marker AppAPPLICATION FORM FOR OFF'ICIAL TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKFR
Texas historical Commission
State Marker Program
P.O. Box 12276, Austin, Texas 78711
Title of Marker College Station Railroad Depots
(subject to revision by i
THC staff)
Marker Location
(street address and town.
or specific directions from
nearest town on state highway map) College Station, Texas.
Distance and direction
of subject
from marker site ,
Owner of
Marker Site
County
Brazos
200 Feet Northeast of the intersection of Welborn Road (FM2154)
rand Old Main Drive, on the Texas A & M University campus
If not on post, type of
Approximately 300 feet surface to which marker
to the south. will be attached (wood, stone, etc.)
®' Texas A & M University
Address
Sponsor of 110. Address
Marker City of College Station P.O. Box 9960
Parks and Recreation Dept.
Signature of
County Chairman ,
I'erson to whom marker
is to be shipped*
® Stephen C. Beachy, College Station PARD
Address
Address
City. Zip
College Station.
77843
City. Zip
College Station
77842
City, Zip
1200 Goode College Station
77Ran
City, Zip Telephone
(required)
1000 Krenek Tap Rd. College Station
77840 (409) 764-3773
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S 150
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OTHER
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APPLICATION FOR A HISTORIC SUBJECT MARKER
COLLEGE STATION RAIL ROAD DEPOTS
INTRODUCTION
Historically there are many examples of communities that
died, moved or prospered as a result of rail road line locations.
College Station, Texas is but one such community. The city name,
location and history are inextricably woven with that f the rail
road.
Brazos County, in which the City of College Station is
located, was officially created with its current boundaries in
1842. These boundaries are the Brazos and Navasota Rivers on the
West and East and the Old Spanish Road (OSR) on the North. At
this time freight transportation in the area consisted of
steamboat traffic on the Brazos River to a river port at
Washington -on -the Brazos some 30 miles away from College
Station.' An attempt was made to extend a rail line to
Washington -on -the -Brazos in the 1840's but the cost was
prohibitive. Between 1850 and 1860 the Houston, and Texas Central
Railroad (H&TC) extended lines north, by passing Washington -on -
the -Brazos with the rail head2 ending at Millican, Texas in
Southern Brazos County in 1860.
The Civil War in 1861 brought about an end to railroad
construction in most of Texas and the rail head remained at
Millican, Texas until 1867 when the line was extended to Bryan,
Texas just North of the present location of College Station.
LOCATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE
In 1862 the United States Congress passed the Morrill Land
Grant Act to create colleges in the states that would emphasize
agricultural and mechanical arts. Since Texas was involved as
part of the Confederate States it was not until 1866 that the
State of Texas accepted 180,000 acres of federal land for the
Land Grant College. Reconstruction further delayed the location
and opening of the School and in April of 1871 the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas was officially established.
Governor Edmund Davis appointed three commissioners to select a
site for the college. Several communities bid for the college.
Due to the efforts of Harvey Mitchell, a resident of Bryan, often
referred to as the father of Brazos County, and the pledge of
additional land and money by local residents, Texas A&M College
was located in Brazos County. °
Not everyone in Texas was satisfied with the site selected
for the College. One person complained that the "lands there
about were among the poorest in the state, unfit for agriculture
and ...the region was very unhealthy." 5 Opposition to the
location was overcome in large part because of two factors; the
central location in the State and the fact that the site was
served by the H&TC rail line. Henry Dethloff in his Centennial
History of A&M states that without the rail site it is possible
that the A&M College of Texas would have been located elsewhere.
In October of 1876 Texas A&M College formally opened its
doors to 106 students in attendance.6 To some degree the College
was isolated, being located some five miles from the City of
Bryan. The railroad not only served to bring materials, supplies,
faculty and students to the College from other parts of the State
but also served as a link with Bryan. The H&TC had a north bound
train at 12:30 PM and a south bound at 4:OOPM and it was possible
to take the train to Bryan and return to the College the same
day. Travel in the other direction by train obviously took a full
day. 7 A train ticket in the Archives of Texas A&M University,
which is ink stamp dated September 5, 1888, indicates that the
fare to Bryan from College Station was 15 cents.
In 1900 the International and Great Northern Railroad (I&GN)
began service to Bryan and College Station.8 Thus, The A&M
College of Texas was served by two railroads. Later these rail
lines became part of the Southern Pacific (H&TC) and Missouri
Pacific (I&GN) and both lines still serve the area to this day.
FIRST DEPOT
From 1876 when the College opened it's doors until 1883
there was no formal depot to serve the campus. In 1883 the H&TC
built a depot approximately 800 yards from the Old Main
building.9 The attached photographs (Numbers 1-5) clearly show
this depot being used as a passenger station. Photographs number
1 and 4 show other rail road buildings, possiblely freight
stations located South of this depot. Photograph number 6, shows
this same depot in a new location. This photograph (#6) is from
the 1910 student year book, The Longhorn (page 314). As can be
seen in photograph #6 this first depot is now raised on blocks
and a brick chimney has been added. Apparently the former depot
is being used as a residence. The note "Fine Business" appears in
the Longhorn below the picture but there is no other information
provided. It is known that faculty housing on the college campus
was in short supply during this time period and it is quite
likely that the depot was moved for this purpose. The houses in
the background in photograph #6 are obviously campus housing and
the center house appears to be either campus house number 410 or
405, both located on Throckmorton street on a 1914 campus map in
the Texas A&M Archives. These homes were moved from the campus
and are now located at 1700 Laura Lane and 3231 East Hwy. 6 in
College Station. It is quite possible that this home is house
number 416, also located on Throckmorton street. The outline of
the house shown on the 1914 map appers to be similar to that of
this house in shape and size.
OTHER DEPOTS
In 1900 the I&GN extended their rail line to College Station
and apparently constructed a much larger depot East of the H&TC
depot. (See photograph # 7) This depot obviously provided freight
storage as well as a passenger waiting area. The style of this
depot is quite similar to many constructed in the United States
during the late 1800's and early 1900's. This depot continued to
exist until 1966 when it was razed to allow for the expansion of
the State Highway 2154 (Wellborn Road). The attached story and
photograph from the Texas Aggie shows the station being razed.
Apparently sometime around 1900 the H&TC also constructed a
new station, possibly to replace the older one shown in
photographs 1-6 that had been moved to the campus for housing.
Photograph number 8 shows both of these depots. The H&TC is to
the left and the I&GN is to the right. The H&TC station was also
razed, possiblely in the 1950's although an exact date is not
known.
SIGNIFICANCE OF DEPOTS TO LOCAL HISTORY
From 1900 until 1966, when the last of the depots was razed,
these depots served as a focal point of activity for the campus
and the community. For many students attending The A&M College,
this depot was their first remembrance and it stood as a symbol
for the campus and community. The station even appeared in one
Hollywood movie, We've Never Been Licked, which was filmed on the
campus in 1942.
On October 19, 1938, when the citizens of the area voted to
create the City of College Station, the polling place was the
I&GN (Southern Pacific) depot. The vote to incorporate as a city
was approved by a vote of 217 to 39. 10 The City of College
Station used a pen and ink line drawing of this depot by local
artist James Gaston as a symbol for the city on stationary and
other items.
For many years, dignitaries visiting the campus cave by
train. On October 23, 1909, William Howard Taft addressed the
student body and local residents from the back of a train." On
May 5, 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt came through the station
for a half day visit to the campus and was honored by a review by
the Corps of Cadets. 12
It is unfortunate that both I&GN and H&TC depots were razed.
To date, no architectural plans for either station have been
located. The Southern Pacific and the Missouri Pacific railroads
were unable to locate any plans in their archives. It was
suggested by Southern Pacific officials that the College Station
depots may have been "generic" stations, perhaps "prefabs"
which was shipped to and assembled on the site, a practice quite
common in the early 1900's. 13
The last passenger service to College Station to use these
depots was on June 7, 1959 when the OWL made its last run.14 In
1988 AMTRACK resumed limited passenger service to College
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Station. The city of College Station constructed a temporary
depot about one half mile South of the location of the old
depots. 15
In later years the rail road, which still runs through the
campus, and served the campus and community for the first 90
years of its history, had become something of an impediment to
campus development. The rail line now bisects the East and West
parts of the campus. Several efforts have been made to move or
lower the rail line through the campus. In December of 1990 the
voters of College Station rejected a $3,000,000 bond proposal to
pay for part of the cost of lowering the rail road tracks.
The rail line stands as a reminder of the past history of
both the College and the City. Without the rail road it is likely
that The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas would have
been located elsewhere in the state and the history of Brazos
Countvquite different.
CIA5t,46( 19'e
— Notes —
1. Kate Efnor, "Historical Sketch of Brazos County,
"American Sketch Book 4 (1879), p. 237.
2. Henry C.Dethloff, A Centennial History of Texas A&M
University, (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M Press, 1975).
3. Brazos County Heritage and History Council, Brazos County
History, Rich Past -Bright Future, (Bryan, Texas, 1986). p.
419-420.
4. Deborah Lynn Balliew, College Station,Texas 1938-1988,
(College Station, Texas, Intaglio Press, 1988) p. 11.
5. Balliew, p.12
6. Balliew, p.12.
7. D.B. Cofer, ed., Early History of Texas A&M College
Though Letters and Papers (College Station, Texas: Association of
Former Students, 1952).
8. July 4, 1900 A&M Board of Directors granted I&GN a right
of way through the Campus. Board Minutes, The Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas, Archives, TAMU.
9. Galveston Daily News, July 19, 1883, p.1 notes that the
H&TC rail road is building a depot in College Station, Texas.
10. Balliew, p.22
11. Copy of Taft's remarks found in the microfilm of the
W.H. Taft Papers, Evans Library.
12. Texas Aggie, August, 1966, p.5 and date on photograph in
Archives, TAMU.
13. Letter to City of College Station from Southern Pacific,
1982.
14. Bryan Eagle,6-4-58 and Austin American Statesman,
6-19-58. pages unknown. Advertisements in both newspapers, TAMU
Archives Collection.
15. The Eagle, 11-15-88, p.1
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Page Al2 Bryan -College Station Eagle Friday, April 22, 1994
Local&State
CS depots honored with state markers
By KARA SOCOL
Eagle staff writer
The College Station railroad depots were com-
memorated Thursday morning with the unveiling of
a state historical marker — the seventh such mar-
ker in College Station and the third on the Texas
A&M campus.
It was the presence of the railroad that gave Col-
lege Station its name.
"While this was the seventh marker to be placed
in College Station, one could argue that this really:
should have been the first," Gary Halter, chairman!
of the College Station Historic Preservation Com,
mittee, said during the brief ceremony.
The marker was placed on a site adjacent to Old
Main Drive near Albritton Tower. The original site
of the depots is now part of Wellborn Road.
The text on the marker explains the history of the
depots and their importance to College Station and
to A&M.
The area that is now College Station was chosen as
the site of the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas in 1871, it says, in large part because of its
access to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad
Line,
The line began in Southeast Texas and went'
through the area to its terminus in Bryan.
Halter mentioned during the ceremony that Aus-
tin would have been a prime candidate for the;
school had it been linked to the railroad.
Although no formal depot was at A&M when the'
school opened in 1876, H&TC made regular stopsi
there for students and faculty, the marker says. The:
community gained its name through the conduc-
tor's announcements.
The first H&TC depot was constructed at the site
in 1883. Seven years later, H&TC replaced the depot
with a new one, and the International & Great
Northern Railroad built their own close by.
The two depots maintained passenger service un-
til 1959 and the last of the structures was razed in
1966, the marker says.
Speakers at the ceremony elaborated on the sen-
timental value of the railroad to the community.
College Station Mayor Larry Ringer said that res-
idents voted at the depot to incorporate the commu-
nity into a town.
A&M Interim President E. Dean Gage said that the
depots served as both the first and last glimpse of
A&M and the community for many students. The
railroad also was the primary means of transporta-
tion at the time, he said.
Thursday not only saw the dedication of the mar-
ker, but also A&M's annual Muster ceremony,
which honors the memory of Aggies who have died.
Gage said it was only appropriate that these two
events occur on the same day, especially since this
year's Muster honored the A&M Class of '44. Eighty
members of this class were killed in World War II.
"In many cases, the railroad depot was truly the
last view of this campus and this area," Gage said.
David Gerling, city liaison to the preservation
committee, said the idea to get a Texas Historical
Marker for the depots came up in a committee meet-
ing about 18 months ago. The application and ac-
companying materials were submitted by the local
group to the county group, then on to the state, he
said.
Since a marker couldn't be placed at the original
site, the location near Albritton Tower was chosen
because it's a high -traffic area where it will be easily
visible, Gerling said.
Charles Schultz, chairman of the Brazos County
Historical Commission, explained that the marker
dedicated on Thursday is a "subject" rather than a
"site" marker, since it points to the historical signi-
ficance of an area, rather than to the structure of a
particular building.
He added that a committee at A&M has been talk-
ing about placing its own markers at the site of his-
toric buildings and places on campus.
Gerling said that the A&M Class of'94 is consider-
ing building a replica of the depot near the original
site as its class gift.
The two state markers already at A&M pay tribute
to the university and to the rows of faculty houses
that used to line its streets. Another state marker is
expected to honor the Corps of Cadets within the
near future.
Dedication Ceremony
Aprif 21, 1994
COLLEGE STATION RAILROAD DEPOTS
IN 1871 TEXAS GOVERNOR EDMUND DAVIS APPOINTED THREE
COMMISSIONERS TOSELECT A SITE FOR THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS (TEXAS
A&M COLLEGE), THE COMMISSIONERS CHOSE THIS LOCATION IN
LARGE PART BECAUSE OF THE EXISTENCE OF A HOUSTON AND
TEXAS CENTRAL (H&TC) RAILROAD LINE WHICH BEGAN IN SOUTH-
EAST TEXAS AND EXTENDED THROUGH THIS AREA TO ITS TERMINUS
IN BRYAN (5 MI, NORTH).
ALTHOUGH NO RAILROAD DEPOT EXISTED HERE AT THE TIME OF
TEXAS A&M'S FORMAL OPENING IN 1876, H&TC MADE REGULAR
STOPS HERE FOR INCOMING AND OUTGOING COLLEGE STU-
DENTS AND FACULTY. H&TC RAILROAD CONDUCTOR AN-
NOUNCEMENTS REFERRING TO THIS STOP AS COLLEGE STATION
GAVE RISE TO THE NAME OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
H&TC CONSTRUCTED A DEPOT AT THIS SITE IN 1883 WHICH IT
REPLACED WITH A NEW DEPOT ABOUT 1900. THE H&TC DEPOTS
AND ANOTHER BUILT BY THE INTERNATIONAL & GREAT. NORTHERN
(IGN) RAILROAD JUST EAST OF THIS SITE IN 1900 WERE FOR MANY
STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED TEXAS A&M THE FIRST REMEMBRANCE
OF THEIR COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE. RAILROAD DEPOTS OWNED BY THE H&TC (LATER SOUTHERN PA
CIFIC) AND IGN (LATER MISSOURI PACIFIC) MAINTAINED PASSEN-
GER SERVICE AT THIS LOCATION UNTIL 1959, IN 1966 THE LAST OF
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BACK WHEN TEXAS A&M
TRAVELED BY TRAIN
See picture on front cover. Its date has he said to he about
it is in the files of A&M's Photographic Laboratory.
A campus landmark familiar to thousands of
• Former Students has been razed to make
for ,larking improvements.
The last railroad station at Aggieland will be
ced with a massive parking lot to accommodate
mushrooming number of cars on campus.
The frame structure is bowing out in favor of the
omobile which led to the death of train passenger
ice.
Thousands of Aggies have "hit the ground a-
ning'. at the old College Road stations.
Am them was Ernest Langford '13, now
hivist for A&M. Fifty-seven years ago Langford
red reluctantly from a Houston and Texas Cen-
train. Recently he watched workmen rip the
ion earthward.
The former College Station Mayor seated himself
a crosstie and dredged up memories from long ago:
RAILROAD REFLECTIONS — Texas A&M
'chivist Ernest Langford '13 fashions a fan from
9les from the last College Station passenger rail -
depot and reminisces about the landmark's his-
'. Thousands of Aggies were introduced to the
Pus at this location. Passenger service ?vas dis-
atinned in 1958.
ust 1966
"In those days students either rode the train or
came to A&M by horse and buggy," he recalled. "It
took me 23 hours to get here from Bertram in Burnet
County. I had to change trains at Austin and Hemp-
stead. If my ticket had been for further up the line,
I would have kept right on going, but I'm glad I
stayed."
"A. R. Cummins of Burnet, a chap I met on the
train," Langford continued, "was the only human
being other than Private A. R. Wilson of Burnet that
I knew at A&M. Cummins knew R. G. Sherrard, a
Major in the Cadet Corps. Sherrard met us at the
train and got us registered and housed within the
hour."
Langford mopped his brow in the 95-degree heat
and went on : "We made Corps trips for years by
train. My freshman year we beat Texas 23-0 in the
rain at Houston. And we beat 'em again that year,
5-0 in Austin. Touchdowns counted five points then.
Louis Hamilton — we called him Louie — ran a rec-
ord 90-yard TD in Houston, then notched a 10-yarder
in Austin."
"You remember things like that when you forget
your birthdays," he chuckled.
Back to railroading, Langford commented: "Col-
lege Station used to have 12 passenger trains a day.
H&TC had the 'Hustler,' 'Sunbeam', `Owl,' and `Cen:'
tral Express.' International and Great Northern
numbered its trains."
"The Owl was a famous night train from Dallas
to Houston, or vice -versa," Langford explained.
"Sometimes it had 18 cars with double headers (two
engines) ."
Records show the "Owl" was pulled off the line
in 1958 after 86 years of service.
"I rode the 'Owl' a few days before it was dis-
continued," Langford confided. "It had shrunk to
one day coach on the end of a freight train."
Dignitaries through the years came to Aggieland
by train. Among them were Presidents William
Howard Taft and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"The Corps marched to the station to hear Pres-
ident Taft speak about three minutes from the back
of the train," Langford reminisced. "Captain Andred
Moses, A&M Commandant, prevailed on Taft's peo-
ple to stop the train here during a Southern swing
in the spring of 1910. Roosevelt stayed the better
part of a day for a review in his honor."
"One man's guess would be as good as another
(See Railroads, Page 8)
5
'Mr. A&M After Dark'
Front man for Texas A&M's
student body, representative of the
Aggies to the public, is more often
than not a big, dark-haired, quiet -
spoken person who has come by
the title of "Mr. A&M After
Dark."
Ted Cathey's business requires
him to contact an average of two
hundred persons in a six -hour
period. He does it without ruffling
a feather.
"I try to get along on the philos-
ophy that you treat people as
you'd like to be treated," says the
man of precise speech. "It works
remarkably well."
Cathey is in his nineteenth year
in A&M's Housing and Student
Information office, a span of serv-
ice that saw the department move
from Goodwin Hall to the ground
floor of the YMCA.
Cathey works from five to 11
p.m. weekdays and noon to 7 Sat-
urday.
"You can set your watch by
him," Glenn Bolton, Assistant
Chief of Campus Security, said.
"He comes through that door to
work every day at 16 minutes to
five."
Railroads
(Continued from Page 5)
on how many Aggies boarded
the train here," Langford re-
marked. "It would have to
be way up in the thousands."
A whiz at digging up facts,
Langford pointed out that the
State Legislature chartered
the Calvert, Waco, and Brazos
Valley Railroad on June 28,
1899. At that time Calvert
was to be the end of the line,
but the plan was changed to
include Bryan and later
Spring, 25 miles north of
Houston. Traffic began in
1901.
The small original station
was expanded about 40 years
ago, the archivist noted.
"Termites had eaten the
foundation to pieces," Lang-
ford said. "Carpenters jacked
the building three feet off the
ground and replaced 8-by-8
pine sills 40 feet long. The
"He's the most dedicated em-
ployee A&M has," declares Sgt.
Emmitt Folsom.
Housing Manager Harry Boyer
'31 looks at it the same way.
Ted and his wife Vicki live
in Bryan and have three sons.
Larry, 16, is a junior at Bryan
High. Merka is an A&M graduate
with Mobil Oil Company, and Bob-
by works in Baytown.
In a typical hour of a typical
day, "Mr. A&M After Dark" an-
swers eleven personal queries and
takes thirteen phone calls.
The native of Hamilton will
identify a senior ring found by
a janitor, take and send Western
Union telegrams, locate Aggie ad-
dresses in one of numerous files
maintained by Housing, issue
duplicate room keys, assist two in-
ternational students in locating an
off -campus apartment, or give in-
formation about an event at A&M.
The one-time stockfarmer is
often flooded with calls and per-
sons waiting, but Cathey maintains
a calm manner and precise, mod-
erate tones in answering every re-
quest, regardless of how strange or
unusual.
old sills were so damaged that
a man could carry one under
his arm. A freight room on
the south and a portico on the
north were added then."
The I&GN was later bought
by Missouri Pacific. H&TC
has long since been the prop-
erty of Southern Pacific. Its
lines were in the area before
the College was chartered.
Work begun in 1860 was in-
terrupted by the Civil War.
After the war, construction
rolled from Millican, 20 miles
to the south, "nd the railroad
was opened to Bryan in Aug-
ust, 1867.
Langford said the H&TC
ran the first through train
from Houston to Dallas July
16, 1872.
Changing times have pushed
most passenger trains into
museums, but memories linger.
The sparks of all the scien, es
in the world are taken up in
the ashes of the law —Finch
Buser
A youth once breathlessly
ported a man hanging :min
dorm. It turned out to be a du
my. Housing receives calls f
Chicago and New York asking
exact score of a football game
progress or a truek driver ri
to ask where to unload hay,
dressed simply to Texas A&M.
Seven students deliver
sages and assist in the off
Each works one day of sev
sleeping in the Housing of
overnight. Cathey,` who sel
student help, points to their w
with pride.
"I tell them there's little
but long hours and hard w
and it pays off," he smiled. E
ple is a former messenger who
now Vice -President of a major
company.
Messages and telegrams are
livered where phone` service
available. Buildings and Utili
now manages a radio system
direct Campus Security work,
Housing formerly used a red-li
signal to notify patrolmen of cad
The light has long since d'
appeared. But Cathey .;iays
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He earned the highest rank
in all three branches of Scout-
ing, and was Scoutmaster of
the national Junior Leader
Training Program at Philmont
Scout Ranch for three sum-
mers.
A 4-H member, he was the
youngest Gold Star boy in
Texas, and earned numerous
county achievement honors.
It was as a member of a 4-H
dairy judging team that he
first visited the A&M campus
("I fell in love with the place,"
he remarks).
At A&M he marched with
the Texas Aggie Band for
three seasons, making the trip
to Los Angeles when the Band
went there. He was for two
years in the Drum and Bugle
Corps.
During his A&M days he
was on the Student Senate, on
the Arts and Sciences Cou
President of the Press
Editor of the Battalion, el
to Who's Who in Ame
Universities and Colleges
on the Corps staff in his
for year. In May 1959 he
graduated and commissi
Buser is married to
former Jurdis Siblfv of
Arthur; they have two
dren: a son, Joey. 5,
daughter, Jennifer, 3.
Little boy in wo
"Father, did Grandpa
you when you were a
boy?"
Father (with paddle):
my son."
Little boy: "And did G
grandpa spank Grandpa
he was a little boy ?"
Father: "Yes."
Boy: "Well, don't you
with my help you c,.uld
come this inherited
ism?"
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