LVRR Willard Landing Depot

 historical layer / disappeared object, former train/railway station

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Site of a former large multi-freight depot operated by the LVRR at the terminus of the Willard-Hayts Corners branch line. Originally the site of the station, shops and offices of the Hayts Corners, Ovid & Willard Railroad, under LVRR ownership the depot and freight yards were expanded to take advantage of connecting steamboat services on Seneca Lake at Willard Landing. At its maximum size, the depot and yard moved coal, lumber, dairy and agricultural products and grain through the facility, as well as hundreds of passengers on three dedicated trains daily.

With the Willard State Asylum cutting back its needs for LVRR service in the 1930s and steamboat operations on Seneca Lake all but ceased, LVRR elected to close the branch line from Willard to Ovid in 1936, and the depot and yards were sold off and demolished.