Milledgeville Old Train Depot
Milledgeville, Georgia

Sure, it’s called the “Old Train Depot” now, but close your eyes and you can almost see it as it was in it its nineteenth century glory days, new and fresh and teaming with activity. Milledgeville was the state capital then, the railway was the mode of transportation, and everyone who was anyone found himself traveling into Milledgeville, Georgia at one time or another, especially once the Civil War started. Jefferson Davis. Alex Stephens. Why even…

… William Tecumseh Sherman himself
passed right by it on his way through town.

Now fast forward a hundred and forty years or so. The capital’s long since moved to Atlanta, the days of rail transportation are gone and the car is king, and years of neglect and decay have left the Old Train Depot degraded and desolate, both its structure and its infrastructure all but unsalvageable. That’s where Garbutt Construction comes in. Along with architects Bradfield, Richards, Rhodes & Associates and the facilities staff at Georgia College and State University,

Garbutt Construction stepped in to save this vital depository of state history and local lore.

Today the Georgia College and State University students provide the depot with a different kind of foot traffic—the kind that happens on a treadmill—and “train” has taken on an entire new meaning in this state of the art fitness and lifestyles center.