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platform and railroad roadway once stood. Additionally, lumber storage buildings and grain elevators, erected between 1879 and 1881, are situated north and east of the site. Despite some loss of its defining features due to neglect and deterioration, the depot still maintains its fundamental integrity as a late nineteenth-century combination railroad passenger station and freight depot.
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