Open every Sat. From 10am - 3pm. (except holiday weekends)

• If you are traveling west on I-20 toward Birmingham from the Alabama Welcome Center, the Heflin-Ranburne exit (Exit 205) is exactly 7.5 miles from the center. Turn right from the exit ramp and go approximately 4.5 miles on Highway 46 until it connects with Highway 78. You will begin heading west into downtown Helflin. The Depot is on your right and approximately 50 yards from the junction of HWYs 78 and 46 (next to the Heflin Fire Department).
• If you are traveling east toward Atlanta and the Alabama-Georgia State Line. exit at the Heflin-Hollis exit (Exit 199). Turn left from the exit ramp onto Highway 9 and go exactly 1.5 miles north to Highway78. Turn right and proceed exactly one mile through downtown Heflin. The Depot will be on your left and just past the Heflin Fire Department.

• The East Alabama History Museum presents events at the Museum on a regular basis. Our most recent concert was held Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 7pm. Our guest was Galen and Melissa Barrow who are gospel singers and was followed by Matthew Perry Williams and Sean Bennett who are American Folk Musicians. Please check out our web site for future events at the museum in the Old Historic Heflin, Ala. Depot Station.

Larry Stephens and the Bands

Galen and Melissa Barrow, gospel singers

Matthew Perry Williams and Sean Bennett, American Folk Musicians

• LARRY STEPHENS, Director of the Museum, is a reference librarian at Georgia Highlands College in Rome, Georgia. A life-long history buff, he taught high school Social Studies for several years in the Atlanta area before making the switch to librarianship. A former Civil War re-enactor, he has also self-published a number of books on Confederate troops operating in Georgia and East Alabama. His most recent work, “Bound for Glory,” documents the story of his Confederate ancestors in the 30th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Larry’s great-grandfather, John Shaw, was once a resident of Cleburne County, and many of his Stephens ancestors lived in nearby Randolph County