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In 1863, during the Civil War, Pennsylvanian Herman Haupt, a noted bridge designer and the superintendent of Union military railroads, commissioned John Devereux, the railroad superintendent in Alexandria, to build a siding on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad on this site, later known as Devereux Station. The siding at Devereux Station served as a major supply point where trains were loaded with wood for burning in the Union's U.S. Military Railroad locomotives. When a passenger station was built in 1868, the name was changed to Clifton Station. The station spurred the development of Clifton as a commercial and resort community, with its greatest growth occurring between 1890 and 1920. Although the station was removed in 1958, the town continues to thrive and remains noted for its late-19th-century architecture.

The Clifton Caboose was built in 1949 for the Norfolk & Western Railroad. In 1982 the Norfolk & Western Railroad merged with the Southern Railway and was then called the Norfolk Southern. The caboose was received by the Town of Clifton in 1992 and will remain on permanent display.

Text © 1999 Dianne Harrah, Drawing © 1999 Bill Harrah