Amboy Illinois
Central Depot
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1876 — — Map (db m209420) HM
On this site on 1854 John T. Pirie and Samuel Carson established the store dealing in ladies' and gentlemen's dress which later developed into Carson Pirie Scott a & Co. — — Map (db m209419) HM
One hundred years ago near this location, T.J. Wright and fellow Illinois Central Railroad conductors founded Division No. 1 Conductors Brotherhood later to become The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, the second oldest railway labor . . . — — Map (db m209422) HM
The largest child migration in United States history, also known as "the Orphan Trains",
took place from 1854 to 1929. Originating from the New York ghettos and orphanages,
they came west over the rails. Amboy was a stop on this migration which . . . — — Map (db m209421) HM
