Thompson's Station Train Depot

Thompson’s Station was named for Dr. Elijah Thompson, who donated the land on which the village was built. Farmers drove animals and products down gravel roads to the depot for shipment to distant markets, and the area became known as the German Millet Capital of the World because so much of that grain was grown there. A depot stood here before the one built in 1866, and it was apparently destroyed during the Battle of Thompson’s Station.

Thompson's Station, Tennessee · United States