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201 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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N38° 53' 36.7" W77° 0' 36.7"
(38.893527777778, -77.010194444444)
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The Washington Depot or New Jersey Avenue Station was a train station located in Northeast Washington, D.C., a block north of the Capitol. The train station was also called the B&O Depot as it was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It operated from April 1851 until Union Station on October 26, 1907. During the American Civil War, the New Jersey Avenue Station was the major embarkation site for hundreds of thousands of Union troops. President Abraham Lincoln arrived there to be sworn in as President in 1861. It was from that station that his body along with his son "Willie" Lincoln began its long journey to his final resting place in Illinois after he was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
