Old Depot Museum

The Museum's exhibits range from items as large as a railroad boxcar to those as small as the black pins worn by the 19th century ladies in their mourning dress. They include the original land grant, issued by President James Monroe to the Selma Town and Land Company, a desk used by Alabama Governor, Benjamin Meek Miller, and the one-horse carriage used by a Selma millionaire to ride all the way from here to New York City during the 1840's. Here are mementoes of the men and women who helped make Selma the "Queen City of the Black Belt"...Confederate Generals like John Tyler Morgan and Edmund Winston Pettus (who later served together in the United States Senate): pioneering physicians like Dr. Albert Gallatin Mabry, who founded the Alabama Medical Association in 1847 and led the fight for mental health services; and early Black leaders such as Benjamin Sterling Turner, the ex-slave who became Selma's first Congressman during Reconstruction.

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