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Apr 8, 2015 · The city of Zachary technically exists because a man named Darel Zachary donated part of his land to the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1880s for a train depot, one of many that sprang up...
Zachary is a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Much of the land which the city of Zachary now occupies was part of a 160-acre farm owned by Darel Zachary. In the 1880s, Zachary sold his land to the Illinois Central Railroad, who built a track and a depot on it.
In the 1880s, Darel Zachary donated part of his farm in East Baton Rouge Parish (about 16 miles north of Baton Rouge) to the Illinois Central Railroad, which built a depot on his former property and effectively established the city. A fire in 1903 nearly destroyed Zachary, but many of its historical buildings remain intact.
Darel Zachary owned much of the land where the City of Zachary now lies. He sold a strip of land 50 feet wide by 650 feet long, to the LNO&T Railroad for the sum of ONE DOLLAR and the promise from the Railroad Company that they would build a depot there.
Apr 12, 2017 · The land for the depot was sold in 1894 to Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad for $1 by Darel Zachary and became a center and focal point of the town’s development.
Although several families settled in this area as early as the latter part of the eighteenth century, the community of Zachary was not established until 1884 when the Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railroad located a station on the farm of Confederate veteran Darel Zachary.
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Jan 22, 2024 · Zachary. Much of the land which the city now occupies was part of a 160-acre farm owned by Darel Zachary (1827-1907). In the 1880s, Zachary sold his land to the Illinois Central Railroad, who built a track and a depot on it in 1894 (it still stands today!).
