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Union Station is a former railroad station at East 4th Ave. and State St. in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County,
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...
. The station was originally at the union of the
Cotton Belt The Cotton Belt is a region of the Southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 18th century into the 20th century.
and Iron Mountain railroads, and now houses the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Society museum. It is a single-story brick building, with a hip roof whose long eaves are supported by iron columns and half-truss brackets. The station was built in 1906 by the Iron Mountain Railroad. It had been a stop on the St. Louis Southwestern's '' Lone Star'' (Memphis-Dallas), and also on the railway's St. Louis-Dallas trains. Ownership reverted to the city in 1955. The station was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1978.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, ...


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Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Society
Pine Bluff History museums in Arkansas Museums in Jefferson County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Pine Bluff Tourist attractions in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Transportation in Jefferson County, Arkansas
Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combin ...
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1906 Former railway stations in Arkansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arkansas {{JeffersonCountyAR-NRHP-stub