Depot Visitors Center

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Location: 125 N Rowlett Street, Collierville, TN 38017

Visitor Center Hours:Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Town Square Map: Click here to view.

Staff Contact: Ashley Carver, (901) 457-2776 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Services

The Depot Visitors Center has information on all there is to do and see in Collierville and the surrounding area. If you are hosting a wedding, family reunion, or other special event involving out-of-town guests, contact the Depot Visitors Center for free Visitor Welcome Bags, brochures, and maps. Bag requests must be placed 48 hours in advanced of your desired pickup date.

Friends coming into town and want to arrange something special? Did you just move to Collierville and want to learn more about the Town's history? Contact the Depot Visitors Center for customized walking tours of Town Square.

Hospitality Partners

Collierville's Depot Visitors Center offers the official Collierville Event Guide, as well as a variety of other resources to our local hospitality partners free of charge. Please share them with your visitors. If you have visitors that need additional Collierville information, please send them our way. Call (901) 457-2776 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Special Events

Model Train Displays will be inside the Depot Visitors Center on:

- December 7 & 14, 2019 from 10am-4pm

Gift shop

The Depot Visitors Center has unique items for purchase to remember your time in Collierville. Frisco 1351 t-shirts are available in sizes Youth Small to Adult 2X in three colors.

HISTORY

Collierville’s history arguably starts with the railroad coming to Collierville in October 1852, two years after the Town’s first incorporation. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad opened up new trading markets for Collierville and stimulated the growth of agriculture in this area.

The first train depot was built in 1854, just east of today’s Town Square Park. After it was destroyed in the Civil War, the depot operated from a boxcar, then from a small depot built in the area of Center Street. In 1886, a one story building was built in its place with two large waiting rooms that served as a combination passenger and freight station. By the 1940s, it was badly deteriorated and too costly for the declining numbers of passengers and freight service. Southern Railroad decided to relocate the depot in La Grange, TN, 25 miles east of Collierville. The La Grange Depot was cut in half, placed on two flat cars, and transported to Collierville. It was opened on October 3, 1944. In 1976, Southern Railroad donated the Depot to the Town of Collierville.