Bunkie Depot Museum

The 1911 depot at West Main and Oak was built for a segregated South: the ground floor held separate waiting rooms for white and Black passengers. The National Register nomination, certified in February 1991, calls it the only resource left to represent railroading in Bunkie, which the Texas and Pacific effectively created in 1882. From 1911 to 1940 cotton compresses and cottonseed oil companies set up along the tracks. A bay window on the trackside upper story was added after 1915, and the building was remodeled in 2001.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 13 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 14 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 21 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 29 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• Bunkie Post Office — steps away
• Cleco Originated in Bunkie, LA — steps away
• How Bunkie Got Its Name — steps away
• Rays Ferry 1816 — 2.3 mi