Hildreth-Compton-Simmons House at Jefferson, AL (c. 1848)
Dr. James A. Hildreth, son of the Revolutionary War Veteran, Reuben Hildreth, built this home. He bought the property where this home is located on May 28, 1845. The house was built by the master carpenter, Rafe Chase, well before the Civil War. A date of 1848 was found underneath a gutter when it was [...]
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Jefferson Methodist Church at Jefferson, AL (1856)
This church was dedicated on the first Sunday in June, 1856 by the Reverend Phillip Phillips Neely, minister from Marion, Alabama. It was built on two acres of land deeded by John D. Catlin, May 30, 1842, to Daniel E. Ellis, James Turner, David Compton and John Besteder, trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church known as [...]
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Jefferson Baptist Church at Jefferson, AL (ca.1860)
This is the Jefferson Baptist Church at Jefferson, AL in Marengo county. The church was established as Mt. Pleasant Baptist in 1820 and is among the oldest in the Demopolis area. Buried in church cemetery are John Gilmore, Reuben Hildreth and John Sample – Revolutionary War veterans who founded Jefferson and helped establish this church. [...]
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