Like most Illinois towns of the 1850s, the original town of Fairbury was centered around a depot ground.

A powerful searchlight had pierced the dimness of the depot grounds, and gunshots echoed throughout the deserted area.

The historical society tried to preserve the old depot grounds in the past, but to no avail.

A line terminal, with waiting hall built on the depot grounds, was built here in 1927.

The project was finished with the opening of a terminal loop on the depot grounds on 5 December 1972.

The original town consisted of four blocks on the north side of the depot grounds.

It was centered instead on a depot ground.

A depot with depot grounds was established just south of the Original Town.

He argued that although the plat did say "depot grounds" he had never actually dedicated the land to the railroad or to public use.

Like these other towns, Chatsworth was centered a long narrow depot grounds rather than a public square.