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Daniel Harmon Brush founded Carbondale in 1852 along the right-of-way of the Illinois Central Railroad. The railroad became the center of the town's activity, bisecting what would become the Town Square. Railroad facilities there included the 1854 freight and passenger depot built by Brush, a second passenger depot built about 1860, and a third passenger depot constructed after Monroe Street was vacated in 1903. Designed by Illinois Central Railroad architect Francis Bacon, the 1903 depot was still in existence and became the city's first designated historic landmark in 1991.

Carbondale, Illinois · United States