The Train Depot

Built in 1888 for the construction of the railway, this building is the oldest building in Troy.

The Depot started as a kind of headquarters for the construction crew. It was two story building holding offices on the lower level and sleeping quarters on the upper level. In 1889 the first freight from Moscow comes to Clyde’s Spur (south of Highway 8 about a quarter mile southeast of Troy).

J.P. Vollmer and Moscow businessmen realized the benefit of the location as a train depot and began plotting out a town around the depot site. As the saying goes, if you build it ,they will come. And the town developed around the depot. The result was the Town of Vollmer which was incorporated in 1892. And in 1897, the name of the town changed to Troy.

By 1958, the upper floor was removed. In 1960 all passenger serves to Troy was stopped.

In 1975, the building was sold to Clinton & Nola Johnson and moved to its present location.

Photo taken in 2011.

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