Depot in Ochlocknee

Tucked away in Southwest Georgia stands this old depot, there’s not much history to be found on it or Ochlocknee so I have to go by information I found in a small article and from a friend. Built in 1901 for the Atlantic Coast Line it served the small town of Ochlocknee, GA and railroad for many years as a passenger depot, being built in the Jim Crow Laws era it had two waiting rooms with one for whites and one for different races and that’s the reason for two doors. After this there is really no timeframe for when the railroad gave it up but judging by timeframes of when the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Lines merger happened to form the Seaboard Coast Line it was probably sometime in the 60s or 70s, when ever it happened the building had since went through multiple owners and practically abandoned. In 2015 it was bought by someone that had it restored and renovated, it’s now used for art displays and town events. The track beside it was laid before the depot was built but was upgraded in 1928, that same track is still in place today and is ran on just about every day by the Georgia & Florida Railway out of Albany.
William Shoe