Bardwell station
Services such as a water stop were placed at Bardwell, for it lay on the main line between Chicago and New Orleans;[2]: 3 the railroad's grand Ohio River bridge at Cairo is just a short distance to the north.[2]: 6 Locals have long remembered that Purchase native Alben W. Barkley typically began his railroad journeys back to Washington, D.C., while he was the Vice President of the United States.The station continued to serve both as seed showroom and transportation hub well into the twentieth century,[2]: 3 but by the 1970s the railroad had ceased using the depot.[2]: 6 The second Illinois Central depot at Bardwell was typical of small-town railroad stations constructed in the late nineteenth century.[2]: 5 After the railroad ceased using the depot, local residents proposed its conversion into a library and museum in the 1970s,[2]: 6 partly because all other historic Illinois Central stations between Cairo and Fulton, Kentucky had been demolished by 1976.
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