Fort Payne Depot Museum

The Fort Payne Depot Museum is housed in one of the most architecturally distinctive buildings in Alabama — a stunning Richardsonian Romanesque structure built in 1891 from locally quarried pink and white sandstone. The building served as a depot for the Alabama-Great Southern Railroad for 85 years.

Today the depot houses a fascinating museum of local and regional history, featuring artifacts, photographs, and exhibits telling the story of Fort Payne and DeKalb County from the Cherokee era through the Civil War and industrial growth. Also celebrates Fort Payne’s identity as the “Sock Capital of the World”.