This Italianate-style cottage is located beside the historic Sturdivant Hall in Selma, AL. It was built in 1859 for Mr. and Mrs. Clement Billingslea White. Mrs. White was the former Martha Todd of Lexington, Kentucky, and a half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln. Mr. White was not a military person so the [...]
The Dale Masonic Lodge organized at Dale Town (later Prairie Bluff) in 1827. When the town declined in the 1840’s, members voted to move the lodge to Camden. The Dale Masonic Lodge building was built in 1848. Union troops camped in the lodge while passing through Camden in 1865. This building is located at the [...]
Marion Military Institute (MMI) traces its origins back to 1842 with the creation of Howard College in Marion, Alabama by the Alabama Baptist Convention. From 1863 to 1865, two buildings on the Howard College campus served the Confederacy as Breckenridge Military Hospital. These were Lovelace Hall (or the Old South Barracks) which was built in [...]
This home was constructed by John Huntington ca. 1835. The basement of the house served as Confederate headquarters for General Nathan Bedford Forrest. General Forrest left accounts of the war written on the basement walls. This home is included in the West Marion Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is [...]
This cemetery has the graves of Gainesville’s earliest settlers, including founder Moses Lewis. There are also graves of over 200 unknown Confederate and Union soldiers who were brought to Gainesville by boat and train from battlefields to be nursed in hospitals housed in the hotel, school house, and homes. Located in the cemetery is a [...]
Originally organized as St. Michael’s Parish, the church became St. Wilfrid’s in 1853. This is the third building on this site. It was built in 1908. The cemetery behind the Church contains 77 graves of soldiers who died at the Breckenridge Hospital on Howard College campus. The soldiers were originally buried behind the campus. The [...]
This house, built in the 1830′s, was the home of Alabama’s First Civil War Governor, Andrew Barry Moore. It is located on the north side of Green Street approximately 0.6 mile west of the Perry County Courthouse (GPS coordinates N32.634778,W87.329083). This house is included in Marion’s Green Street Historic District listed on the National Register [...]
The Clarke County Historical Museum opened in 1986 as a project of the Clarke County Historical Society. It is located at downtown Grove Hill, AL in the Alston-Cobb House which was built in 1854. The museum contains a treasure of southwest Alabama history. One of the most popular exhibits is the fossils of the Zeuglodon, [...]
The building was built in 1843 to serve as the Presbyterian Church. It served in that role until the end of the Civil War. At that time it was confiscated by federal troops as their headquarters. It served as the Marengo County Courthouse through Reconstruction. The county seat returned to Linden in 1869 and the [...]
This Greek Revival building is one of Selma’s most historic. It was built in 1847 by Selma’s Masonic Lodge #27 as a school for orphans and children of Masons. Through the years, it has also served as a Confederate hospital, the Dallas County Courthouse, a military school, and the Vaughan Memorial Hospital. The building was [...]
At the site of this monument, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his troops were paroled by Gen. Canby thus being the last troops east of the Mississippi to do so. The date was May 15, 1865. The Ellis home stood on this site. When it burned years later, explosions rocked the town and startled the [...]
Founded in 1835, this was one of the earliest colleges for women in the United States. It was the first of four colleges established in Marion, AL. This building was erected in 1850. It contained the art studio of Nicola Marschall, a German-American artist, who designed both the first official Confederate flag and the grey [...]
