The Central Ohio Railroad arrived here in 1853 and called the place Kirkersville Station, but stationmaster James Outcalt later renamed the town Outville after himself. As rail traffic increased in Ohio, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a successor company, built this rural depot in 1899. After 1940, the depot was closed, then sold and moved from town in 1963. The Harrison Township Trustees arranged for its return to Outville in 1993. Today it is the only depot of its type remaining on this line and one of only a handful of original railroad buildings still existing between Columbus and Pittsburgh. Built in the Queen Anne, Stick/Eastlake architectural style, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.