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Old Depot Museum, Selma, AL

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Old Depot Museum

Former railroad depot in downtown Selma, now a history museum covering the region from prehistory through the Civil Rights era.

Selma, AL

About Old Depot Museum

This Selma museum occupies a red brick depot from the late 1800s with Romanesque Revival styling, built on the ground of a Confederate naval foundry that Union forces destroyed during the 1865 battle. Exhibits trace Dallas County and Black Belt life from Native American times through the Civil War and into the Civil Rights years. Outdoor displays add antique railcars and a Victorian firehouse with a historic fire bell, a steam fire pump, and an American LaFrance fire truck.

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