Historical Marker
Katy Depot
Historical marker location:
Hillsboro, Texas
( North Covington Street, just north of courthouse square, Hillsboro)
Marker installed: 1981
This depot was built to serve the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Rail Line, which reached Hillsboro in 1881. Completed in 1902, the station features elements of the Eastlake, Victorian, and Prairie styles. Early MKT trains carried materials for the growing town and brought early residents and such notables as presidents Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry Truman. The building was moved here from the original site in 1978.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1980.