President Street Station Train Shed (1974)

ID: 804 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HAER MD,4-BALT,25--6 ~ Creator: Jack Boucher ~ Date: 1974
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President Street Station Train Shed (1974)

View of the east end of the President Street Station train shed--built 1913.

This file appears in: President Street Station

By Eli Pousson
On April 19, 1861, just one week after the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces marked the beginning of the Civil War, a train carrying Union volunteers with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment pulled into the Philadelphia, Wilmington and…