Resources and Feedback
This page shows you other resources available and offers you a way to be involved with the depot and comment on the museum and Web site. It includes the followoing topics:
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- Stevenson Depot Museum (Stevenson, AL)
- Bridgeport Depot Museum (Bridgeport, AL)
- Fort Payne Depot Museum (Fort Payne, AL)
- North Alabama Railroad Museum (Near Huntsville in Chase, AL)
- Cowan Depot Museum (Cowan, TN)
- Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (Chattanooga, TN)
- Tuscumbia Railway and Museum (Tuscumbia, AL)
- Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum (Near Birmingham in Calera, AL)
- Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History (30 miles west of Rome in Kennesaw, GA)
- Tennessee Central Railway Museum (Nashville, TN)
- Southeastern Railway Museum (30 miles north of Atlanta in Duluth, GA)
The depot offers the following resources for railroad researchers:
- A binder of information from various sources about the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
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Books are reference only. They cannot be removed from the depot. A space is provided for viewing the depot bookshelf collection.
The Scottsboro Depot Museum is located in Scottsboro, AL, the county seat of Jackson County, in the Northeast corner of Alabama at ADDRESS:
From Chattanooga
- Take -24 West toward NASHVILLE/BIRMINGHAM (Passing through GEORGIA, then crossing into TENNESSEE) for 26.8 miles.
- Take the US-64/US-72 exit, EXIT 152, toward US-41/KIMBALL/S PITTSBURG for 0.1 miles.
- Take the ramp toward S PITTSBURG/RUSSELL CAVE NATL MONUMENT for 0.1 miles.
- Take a SLIGHT RIGHT onto US-72 W/US-64 W/TN-150 S/TN-27 W. Continue to follow US-72 W (Crossing into ALABAMA) for 29.3 miles.
- Merge onto AL-279 S toward SCOTTSBORO for 3.6 miles.
- Stay STRAIGHT to go onto E WILLOW ST/AL-35 for 0.7 miles.
- Turn RIGHT onto N BROAD ST for 0.1 miles.
- Turn LEFT onto W MAPLE AVE for 0.1 miles. The Scottsboro Depot Museum is located at ADDRESS.
From Huntsville
- Take I-565 East, which becomes US-72 E for 35.8 miles.
- Take the AL-279 S/BROAD STREET ramp for 0.3 miles.
- Take the ramp toward SCOTTSBORO.
- Turn LEFT onto AL-279/S BROAD ST. Continue to follow S BROAD ST for 2.2 miles.
- Turn LEFT onto WEST MAPLE AVE for 0.1 miles. The Scottsboro Depot Museum is located at ADDRESS.
From Montgomery, AL
- Take I-65 North toward BIRMINGHAM for 78.8 miles.
- Merge onto I-459 N via EXIT 250 toward US-280/ATLANTA/GADSDEN for 18.1 miles.
- Merge onto I-59 N via EXIT 33B toward GADSDEN for 81.4 miles.
- Take the AL-35 exit, EXIT 218, toward FORT PAYNE/RAINSVILLE for 0.3 miles.
- Turn LEFT onto AL-35 N/GLENN BLVD SW. Continue to follow AL-35 N for 23.4 miles.
- Take a SLIGHT RIGHT onto VETERANS DR/AL-35 N for 2.9 miles.
- Turn LEFT onto E WILLOW ST/AL-35 for 0.7 miles.
- Turn RIGHT onto N BROAD ST for 0.1 miles.
- Turn LEFT onto W MAPLE AVE.for 0.1 miles. The Scottsboro Depot Museum is located at ADDRESS.
The Scottsboro Depot Museum is a totally volunteer effort supported by the Jackson County Historical Society. If you would like to contribute to this effort, you might do one of the following:
- Become a member. The annual membership fee of $25 is a small amount to spend out of your pocket, but goes a long way towards covering regular expenses incurred by the museum. Lifetime memberships are also available for $100.
- Be a tour guide. Help us keep the museum open to the public by volunteering as a guide. With more people, we can extend the hours we are open.
- Former employee plaques. Do you have an ancestor that worked for the railroad? Honor them by purchasing a brass plaque for $50 with their name and service dates.
- Donate railroad items. Memorabilia from the railroads needs to be preserved for future generations. Don’t let items waste away in your attic or basement.
- Join a work crew. Whether on the HO scale layouts, or prototype equipment, volunteers are needed to keep these artifacts in top shape. Volunteer to help out!
And of course, tax deductable donations of any amount are always appreciated!
Support the Scottsboro Depot Museum and other historical preservation and restoration effort by joining the Jackson County Historical Association (JCHA). Organized in DATE, the group meets monthly
and is currently chaired by Kelly Goodowens. The cost of the annual membership is XX and is
tax deductable. Mail your check to:
JCHA
Post Office Box 1494
Scottsboro, AL 35769
Membership includes a subscription to the Jackson County Chronices, an invaluable
resource for Jackson County genealogy researchers and historians. Limited back issues are available from editor Ann B. Chambless, and bound volumes of all issues are available in the genealogy section
of the Scottsboro Public Library.
The JCHA has spearheaded key preservation efforts in the county including the Scottsboro/Jackson
Heritage Center, the Bandstand renovation, and the Scottsboro Depot Museum.
To finance work on the bandstand and other projects, the JCHA is still selling memorial bricks
to complete the walkway. The 4 x 8 inch brick is $50.00, and the 8 x 8 inch brick is $100.00. You may include 3 engraved lines with 18 characters per line. Spaces count as characters just like letters. A form will be mailed to anyone who is interested in procuring a brick to honor a family member or friend or to memorialize an ancestor.
- Alabama Railroads, Wayne Cline, University of Alabama Press, 1997, 328 pages.
- Biography of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad (Revised Edition), Paul Harncourt, Outskirts Press, Inc., 2005, 264 pages.
- Southern Railway: From Stevenson to Memphis, Jack Daniel, Grandmother Earth Creations, 1996, 352 pages.
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