| The Louisville & Nashville Railroad depot in Ocean Springs was the focal point of the town's social and economic activity, playing a vital role in the prominence of the town as a resort community and commercial producer of citrus fruit, pecans, shrimp and oysters. The only remaining building of a former railroad complex which included roundhouse, pumphouse, park, and bandstand, the Ocean Springs depot is an important example of a typical small-town station constructed by the L& N Railroad in the early 1900s. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot was decommissioned on April 20, 1965. The depot was listed on the National Register on 31 December 1979, and it was later included as element #438 of the Old Ocean Springs Historic District Boundary Increase, which was placed on the National Register on 2 June 2014. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 7 December 1995, in response to a resolution from the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce, owners of the property. The building is mentioned in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 355, in the introductory text for Ocean Springs). |