Lloyd Depot: Florida's Oldest Surviving Brick Train Station
Near Tallahassee, Florida
The small brick building standing in the village of Lloyd is the oldest surviving brick railroad station in Florida. Built in eighteen fifty-eight by the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, it served as a critical shipping hub for Jefferson County's cotton planters, who loaded their harvest onto trains bound for Jacksonville on the Atlantic or Pensacola on the Gulf. The depot was known variously as Bailey's Mill Station and Number Two Station before the town took its current name.
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers and war materials moved through here. The railroad line was later absorbed into the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which donated the building to the Jefferson County Historical Society in nineteen sixty-six when local service ended. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in nineteen seventy-four.
