Posts Tagged ‘train depot’

City gets getting six-digit grants from MDOT for depot project

by Associated Press Published: May 1,2013

Tags: community development, farmers market, grantm state agency, railroad, railway, restoration, train, train depot

NATCHEZ — The city of Natchez’s plans to renovate the former railroad depot downtown have picked up a little steam. Mayor Butch Brown tells The Natchez Democrat the Mississippi Department of Transportation awarded the city $250,000 for the depot project and will award another $250,000 in the fall and $200,000-$250,000 next spring. The city is [...] [...]

Tunica blues museum progressing

by Associated Press Published: December 6,2010

Tags: blues music, Harrah's Casino, train depot

TUNICA — The second phase of a blues museum project will begin within two weeks when a train depot built in the 1800s is moved about 13 miles from Dundee to Tunica. The depot will be moved to the site of the Tunica Convention and Visitors Center on U.S. 61, and construction is slated to [...] [...]

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