Casey Jones Day is April 30th!
Posted April 30th, 2009: Today is Casey Jones Day! On April 30th, 1900 Casey Jones took his famous last ride from Memphis into Mississippi where he died a heroic death in a train wreck in Vaughn saving the lives of all his passengers on board. It was immortalized in song by Wallace Saunders with "The Ballad of Casey Jones" and the rest is history making Casey Jones the world's most famous railroad engineer. Our Museum is currently under construction but we promise it will be worth the wait when we reopen in June. Be watching our progress! We are commemorating the day at the Old Country Store in the Ice Cream Parlor with a free child size ice cream cone per person who mentions this website blog today on Casey Jones Day and we will have materials on hand to pass out on the Museum. Thank you!
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