[1] On February 20, 1860, the State of Alabama granted a charter to incorporate the Tuskegee Railroad.

[2] In 1860, 500 enslaved Africans worked building the railroad under lease agreements with plantation owners who collected pay for the slave's labor.

[4] The Tuskegee Railroad was melted down by Confederates for armaments for the American Civil War.

Trains were salvaged and warehouses were built where the depot was demolished after some of the property was sold.

[5] Ralph Ellison wrote The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience about a jazz musician playing a street performance in the Great Depression.