The Depot Dispatch
We Are Almost There!
As they say in the country, "we're in the short rows" toward the goal of opening the Garner Depot History Museum. As of this writing, exterior repairs and updates are about 95% complete, including work needed to make the Depot compliant with the Americans with...
Student Members Win Award in Statewide Competition
Congratulations to two student members of the Garner Area Historical Society, Bethany and Luke Crawford. Bethany and Luke created models of Garner's Historic Depot during all of its stages for the Tar Heel Junior Historians Association competition. They won a third...
NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT DEPOT!
Historian Kaye Buffaloe Whaley has recently discovered that the historic Garner Depot is actually older than originally thought: it dates to at least 1900. Mrs. Whaley discovered an interesting article in a 1900 issue of the...