Credits: editor’s collection (left); photo by editor (right).
The Illinois Central rail station and this private home had their own stories to tell. The depot was built in 1903 to replace an earlier station that was destroyed in an 1896 train wreck. That’s agent C. E. Roseman on the platform. He and his wife lived in the house at the right. It stood until 1999 when the grain elevator company tore it down in an expansion project. Agent Roseman didn’t live in Randolph in 1880, and therefore wasn’t part of this next story.