Historical Marker Number: 11478

Marker Title: Site of End of the Line Station
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Index Entry: End of the Line Station
Address: Front Ave. at 23rdSt.
City: Orange
County: Orange
Year Marker Erected: 1981

Marker Text:

The original charter for a rail line through the Orange area was granted to the Sabine and Galveston Railroad and Lumber Company in 1856. About the same time the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad Company was building a line west from the Mississippi River. The Louisiana Legislature later endorsed a plan to join Texas in the completion of the trade route between the states. The two companies were reorganized as separate divisions of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. The Texas division completed construction to this site before the Civil War. Since the rail line

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