The Heart of Pegram Community Life

Sitting near Pegram’s city park and not far from the railroad tracks that used to run in front of it, the Depot Community Center is the heart of the town of just over 2,000 people. Sitting next to it, the red caboose is a fun reminder of what riding on the rails used to be.

Originally built in 1898, the whole town once centered around what was happening at the station, and the town was originally named Pegram Station after it. Before trains came through, it was a stagecoach stop between Charlotte and Nashville. The building was taken over by the town as a men’s club in 1954 as a way to preserve and restore the historic structure. There was also a women’s auxiliary that used the building in the later 1950s before the two merged to become the Pegram Community Club.