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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: November 12, 2005
Caption: Marker on Sign Board in Front of Station
Additional Description: This freight depot was constructed around 1858-1859 in the vicinity of Ashland Station Shopping Center at the corner of Greenback Lane and Folsom-Auburn Road after a railroad bridge was built across the American River near where the Rainbow Bridge is now located. The railroad had two branches. One went through what is now Orangevale to Lincoln and the other branch headed in the direction of Auburn.

The City of Folsom had the depot moved during the 1970's to this location for its preservation. This is the oldest freight depot west of the Mississippi. Notice the square nails and mortise and tenon joints of the floor support beams.
Submitted: September 6, 2008, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p34580
File Size: 0.814 Megabytes

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