The Depot Dispatch

The Garner History Museum at the Depot celebrates Black History Month in February. Our displays include memorabilia from the historic Meadowbrook Country Club, founded in 1958 as one of the first Black country clubs in the southeast and listed on the National Register...

Rand-Bryan House, photograph by June Lioret (courtesy of randsmilldar.com).We will soon celebrate the 250th anniversary of America as we know it. What was happening in what we now know as Garner 250 years ago? When I first moved to Garner in 1983, I was totally...

Made By the Late Clyde Jones (b. 1938-39, d. Dec. 2025)Back in the late 1980s and 1990s there was community movement to bring life back to Downtown Garner. The Historic Depot was restored, the Caboose was donated, and a major restoration done to the beautiful historic...

A man who lived through the Civil War, World War I, and World War II; a devoted missionary; and a U.S. Army medic who died while held as a prisoner of war are among the remarkable individuals featured in the Garner Historical Society’s third annual Voices of the Past....