Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham RR

According to Judy Borden's book: "In 1887, the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad was built, as was customary in that day, on land donated by local residents. Rader Armstrong, Mary Bucy's great grandfather, and Thomas William Johnson, grandfather of Cecil Johnson and great grandfather of Carroll Mitchell, donated a half interest in forty acres of land to the rail company to get them to route the line through Plantersville. The line rn along the foot of the ridge bordering the Town and Tulip Creek bottom west of the town. A little depot was built at the bottom of the hill where the railroad crossed the dirt road to Verona."