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This small depot served passengers traveling on the Fairhaven and Southern Railway (F and S), founded in 1889. The first F and S train arrived at this depot from Fairhaven, WA, on 12/24/1889. Sedro at this time was something of a boom town, inhabitants drawn here in the late 1880s and early 1890s by the expansion of the local coal industry. Coal had first been found here in 1878, but mining activity heated up in the late 1880s; it was at this time that Nelson Bennett (1843-1913), a railroad building contractor who later made money in the town of Fairhaven as a developer, put together a consortium of local investors to build a line from Fairhaven to the coal town of Sedro in 1888-1889.

This small depot featured a hipped and gabled roof and was ringed by a tall platform for passenger use.

PCAD id: 17992