Local artists Joe Kilday and Mike Durham collaborated on the train mural (19′ x 30’9″) located on the side of the Laughlin, Nunnally, Hood and Crum law office. It represents the first train that ever came to Greeneville, which was actually green. The mural also represents the founding of Greeneville and shows some of the 17 train hotels that popped up along the railroad tracks, including what is now known as the General Morgan lnn. The railroad and railroad hotels were the heart of Greeneville’s economy in the mid 19th century. The rails reached Greeneville on March 20, 1858, and the first depot was built at a cost of about $4,000. It served the community until 1905, when the current depot at the end of Depot Street was built.
The mural was sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Commission’s FY13 Arts Build Communities grant and was managed by Greene County Partnership.
