[7] The depot was the site of a raid that Confederate Army Captain John S. Mosby led on St. Patrick's day in March 1863.

[10] Mosby and his men surprised the Union Army picket guarding the station and captured officers, soldiers and horses with no Confederate casualties.

[10] The railroad was an integral part of Herndon's agricultural history as large dairy farms surrounded the village.

[6] The last major assignment for the railway was hauling sand to be used in the concrete mix for runways at Washington Dulles International Airport.

[4] The Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior added the building to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1979.