Conceptual photo of proposed new depot unveiled at meeting
By Dale Welch
dale@hilltopexpress.net
  A conceptual photo of how the new Monterey Depot replica will look was unveiled along with blueprints at last week’s Monterey Depot Historical Society meeting at the Monterey Municipal Building.The plans were presented by Ken Hall, Society president and Mike Connor, on the building committee.
  The society meeting came only a few days after the Monterey Board of Aldermen approved a reappraisal of the depot property by Miller Company, in Knoxville, a Tennessee Department of Transportation certified appraiser, for $1,500. In that same meeting,  aldermen also approved a title search on the property. Both requirements were needed for the $320,000 TDOT grant the town has applied for to build the replica depot museum and a “transportation museum.”
  At the society meeting, Alderwoman Vicki Henley told members that the grant was written as a “transportation museum” idea because she had “eight or ten categories” to pick from and it was the only one that really fit the project. She said that there wasn’t anything in the grant that stipulated that it had to be so much a percentage air travel, etc. But, it was a way to represent a true history of the Monterey area because of the different ways people traveled through, such as the Indians and early white pioneers, and the roads such as Avery Trace and Walton Road and including the railroad.
  “It will be a way,” Henley said, “to present a picture of this area.”

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