Niota Depot

When the soldiers left, the brick station went back to railroad work. The East Tennessee and Georgia line built it as Mouse Creek Station, and Southern Railway, which took it over in 1894, kept it in use until 1972, when the City of Niota acquired it and made it the city hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1975. In 2012 the state awarded a $156,800 transportation enhancement grant to repair its stone and brick foundation and restore the baggage room doors, and the work began in 2017.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sequoyah Birthplace Museum — 19 mi
  The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' museum on Tellico Lake, near the town where Sequoyah was born, telling how he built the Cherokee syllabary and what the Tellico Dam drowned.
• Fort Loudoun State Historic Park — 19 mi
  A reconstructed 1756-57 British fort on the Little Tennessee River in Overhill Cherokee country, besieged in 1760 and surrendered on August 9 of that year.
• Fort Southwest Point State Historic Park — 24 mi
  A reconstructed 1797 federal fort on a knoll at the meeting of the Clinch and Tennessee rivers, headquarters of Cherokee agent Return J. Meigs, a state park since July 2026.

More markers nearby

• Harry Thomas Burn 1895-1977 — steps away
• John Tyler Morgan — 4.3 mi
• Tennessee Wesleyan College — 5.6 mi
• Battle of Athens — 5.6 mi