Tunnel Hill Depot Among the events at Tunnel Hill's antebellum depot during the Civil War was a speech by Jefferson Davis and a very brief visit by Andrews' Raiders in the locomotive General as it was being chased by the Texas on what was then the Western & Atlantic Railroad. For years the building was incorporated into a ConAgra feed mill (see 2003 photo below). Today it stands free but vacant and a bit worn. Fortunately the community plans to rehabilitate it once some other projects are completed and funding is in hand. Down the tracks is the 1850 tunnel, the oldest railroad tunnel in the southeastern US. Beside it, a newer tunnel handles the heavy traffic of CSX's Atlanta-Chattanooga line. A ca. 1905 photograph of this depot is online at the Vanishing Georgia website. Tunnel Hill is a town of 1,200 people in Whitfield County in northwest Georgia.   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home