White-Force Cottage at Selma, AL (built 1859)
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 [...]
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Magnolia Grove at Greensboro, AL (ca. 1840)
Magnolia Grove, an excellent example of temple-style Greek Revival architecture, was built around 1840 as a town house by Isaac and Sarah Croom, whose plantations were about 20 miles south of Greensboro near Faunsdale. The main house and three dependencies are preserved on 15 acres. The house is a two-story masonry structure, built with bricks [...]
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Bluff Hall at Demopolis, AL (1832, modified 1840s)
Overlooking the Tombigbee River, Bluff Hall exemplifies two major architectural trends in the Antebellum South. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter, Sarah Serena Glover, and her husband, Francis Strother Lyon. The Lyons used Bluff Hall as a townhouse; they also resided at Bermuda Hill, their plantation near Arcola. The [...]
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Strother’s Antique Implement Park at Gastonburg, AL
Several years ago, Claude Strother set a piece of old farm equipment beside a windmill in Gastonburg, Alabama. Later he added another piece. He has continued adding pieces over the years and now this has become quite an impressive collection of mule-driven and steel-wheel farm equipment dating to the early part of the 20th century. [...]
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The Safe House Black History Museum at Greensboro, AL (recently renovated by Auburn Rural Studio)
On the night of March 21, 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought refuge from the Ku Klux Klan inside a small, shotgun-style home in the depot neighborhood of Greensboro, AL. (This occurred just two weeks prior to the assassination of Rev. King in Memphis, TN.) Mrs. Theresa Burroughs, a close friend of the King [...]
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The Alabama Rural Heritage Center at Thomaston, AL (A Rural Studio Project)
The Alabama Rural Heritage Center is located on Hwy 25 at Thomaston, Alabama in the renovated Home Economics Building of the old Marengo County High School. Students at Auburn University’s Rural Studio at Newbern, AL designed this facility and handled its construction. This is a non-profit Center whose mission is to preserve native arts and [...]
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The Alabama River Museum near Franklin, AL
The Alabama River Museum is part of the Monroe County Heritage Museums. It is located on the east bank of the Alabama River at the Claiborne Lock and Dam in Monroe County (GPS coordinates N31.615500,W87.548306). The Alabama River Museum has a collection of ancient fossils and Native American artifacts found in Monroe County which provides [...]
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The Old Monroe County Courthouse at Monroeville, AL (home of To Kill A Mockingbird)
The Old Monroe County Courthouse, completed in 1904, was designed by the prominent Southern architect Andrew Bryan. The courthouse gained national fame when Monroeville’s own, Harper Lee, in 1960 published the Pulitzer prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In her book To Kill a Mockingbird, the fictional town of Maycomb is modeled on Monroeville, AL [...]
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Bird’s Farm at Forkland, AL
Many motorists driving along Highway 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw have done a double-take when they see Bird’s Farm for the first time. Bird’s Farm is a large field beside Highway 43 that contains many amusing and imaginative creations, most of which were made with large bales of hay. The hay bale creations include a [...]
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Grove Hill, AL Cultural Arts Center
The Grove Hill Cultural Arts Center opened in 2008 and it is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Grove Hill Arts Council. The Arts Center exhibits the work of local artists. Classes are also conducted at the Arts Center by local artists in oil and acrylic painting, drawing, and stained glass. The Arts Center recently [...]
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Sturdivant Hall at Selma, AL (ca. 1853)
Sturdivant Hall is one of the state’s outstanding tourist attractions. Completed ca. 1853, this mansion is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival neo-classic architecture in the South. It was designed by Thomas Helm Lee for Edward T. Watts. Sturdivant Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1973. [...]
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The Pine Hill Depot Museum at Pine Hill, AL
The railroad started running through Pine Hill, AL in 1888. Pine Hill’s original depot was destroyed in 1896 when a train jumped track and crashed into the building. The next depot was built in 1905 at a cost of $2096. This depot was moved to Pine Hill’s Town Park. Displayed beside the depot is an [...]
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