Marker Inscription
Architecture, Transportation
Historic Place
Santa Fe-Frisco Depot
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About this site
Santa Fe-Frisco Depot is a historic place in Paris, Lamar County, dedicated in 1998. It is one of 27 historic places documented in Lamar County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 89 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 33.6605, -95.5665 near Paris. The nearest cataloged historic site is Central National Road of the Republic of Texas (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Union Station, Baty--Plummer House, and Brazelton, Thomas and Bettie, House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2088001939. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Santa Fe-Frisco Depot marks Paris's role as an important railroad interchange, where the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) system met the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe line. The locally chartered Paris and Great Northern Railroad, organized in 1881, was the first Frisco property in Texas, and its line into Paris was placed in operation in January 1888. The depot served the junction of these lines that linked the Midwest with the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
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Historical Marker
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