Sparks Depot

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Five men and a dog, pictured circa 1907, stand on the platform of the train depot in Sparks, an incorporated city in Cook County. The town was established as a train stop at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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