LANSING — A 1904 train depot in Southwest Michigan has arrived on the National Register of Historic Places.

The National Park Service made the designation of the restored Vicksburg Union Depot in Vicksburg, south of Kalamazoo.

The National Register is the official roster of America’s greatest historical sites that are deemed worth preserving, and the brick-and-stone depot’s designation is for places “associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.”

The last Grand Trunk Western passenger train stopped at the depot in 1972, and freight service was discontinued two years later, according to the Vicksburg Historical Society, which operates the site. At its busiest, 16 passenger trains and 50 freight trains stopped or passed the depot daily.

The village of Vicksburg owns the building which now houses the local historic museum. The land was part of the Potawatomi Nottawaseppi Reservation.

While the depot is still in its original location two blocks from downtown Vicksburg, four buildings have been moved to the historic village: a farmhouse and a one-room school from the mid-1880s, the former Brady Township Hall built in the early 1900s and a barn with farm outbuildings.