Evansville Union Depot / Union Station, built in 1882 on Main Street, just beyond 8th, at the site of today's Civic Center.
Built for the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad, this passenger depot was accompanied by a freight depot at 8th & Locust, shops and a yard.
Building was razed for construction of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Depot in 1907.
(Unknown photographer(Life time: 1920), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
EVANSVILLE AND TERRE HAUTE RAILROAD
Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad
The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company was Evansville, Indiana's first railroad company. It was first chartered in 1853 by William D. Griswold, a lawyer in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was renamed Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad in 1877. It went on to be consolidated without railroads of the region into the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. Chauncey Rose was a key player in financing its construction.
The Vincennes railroad was originally chartered as the Evansville & Illinois to connect with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad at Olney, later at Vincennes January 21, 1849. It was extended to Terre Haute, Rockville, and Crawfordsville. The section from Vincennes to Terre Haute, 58 miles built under WD Griswold and Chauncey Rose, was opened to through traffic on November 23, 1853 and completed in 1854. Rose donated his stock in the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad to the Evansville and Crawfordsville to finance its construction.
