Most of Akron’s adults commute to Tuscaloosa or Greensboro for work which leaves the children to entertain and look after themselves for an extended p …
The Akron Presbyterian Church was organized on July 6, 1919. The meeting was at the Akron Methodist Church which is where the Presbyterians met until …
This is a historic plantation house located in south Hale County at Gallion. It was built around 1820 as a two-by-two log cabin. By the 1840s, two ad …
This beautiful two-story, home was built circa 1900. Features of the house include a complex roofline, corner tower with a conical roof, central doubl …
Dr. Gaston Drake, a planter and local physician, purchased this property in 1849 and had a house built on it. The house was destroyed by fire before …
This is a charming one-story Victorian cottage with Eastlake details that’s located on Greensboro’s Main Street. This house was built around 1890. Fea …
Emory School, also known as the Tunstall School, is a historic Rosenwald School building located in rural Hale County, AL about midway between Greensb …
There may be no home in the Black Belt with more history attached to it than this one. It was built in 1828 – 1829 by John Gayle, a South Carolina nat …
Once an elegant downtown hotel, the Greensboro Hotel remains a local landmark. Impressive brickwork is its most significant feature. Brick-arched door …
The Greensboro Opera House was built in 1903 on the site of an earlier opera house. The original, built in the 1890′s, had burned the preceding year. …
Presbyterians were among the earliest settlers of Greensboro, AL. In 1823, the first Presbyterian church was organized in Greensboro by Rev. James Hil …
Hale County had a legal obligation to provide an animal shelter for the county but had no resources to build it. In 2005, Hale County representatives …
Hale County was created in 1867 with most of it being taken from Greene County. Greensboro was selected as the county seat. Greensboro citizens had …
This building is located on Main Street at downtown Greenboro near the courthouse. It dates back to the 1870s and served in the late 1800s as a law of …
This beautiful house was built around 1845 by a prosperous Greensboro merchant tailor named Philip Happel. This two-story home has both upper and low …
The Harvey house, also referred to as Seven Pines, was built circa 1848 by Col J. G. Harvey, long-time editor of the Alabama Beacon. This house has a …
The Newbern Methodist congregation selected the present site and completed this church in the fall of 1884. (Prior to this time, they held their serv …
This two-story Queen Anne style house was built circa 1900. Features of the house include a hip roof with gables, front facing gable with one story ba …
This two-story Victorian home was built circa 1900. Features of the house include a hip roof with gables, five bay facade with recessed side wing, cen …
This house was originally built circa 1840 as a one story Italianate cottage. The second story and Victorian details were added to the house around th …
Originally built as a small, one-story dwelling, the house was later enlarged into the present two-story, Greek Revival structure. A merchant, Robert …
In 2004 the Lions Club, the City of Greensboro, Hale County, the Riding Club and the Greensboro Baseball Association formed a joint committee to manag …
This was the only house known to have been built in this area during the Civil War. It was constructed in 1861 as a residence for Nathaniel T. Lupton, …
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 …
Magnolia Hall, also known as the McCrary-Otts House, is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro. It is listed on the National Register of Hist …
Originally an I-house, this structure served as a school for Miss Adeline Morse, a New England schoolteacher. Judge W.C. Christian purchased the struc …
Called “The Big Apple of the 14th Century” by National Geographic, Moundville Archaeological Park was once the site of a powerful prehistoric communit …
The Newbern Baptist Church was organized in 1848. The following year, the congregation built this two-story church. The upper floor has a large meetin …
The Newbern Fire Station was designed and constructed by four fifth year architecture students at Auburn University’s Rural Studio. This 4,000 sq. ft. …
This is the oldest church in Newbern and one of the oldest Presbyterian Churches in this part of Alabama. The Newbern Presbyterian Church was organize …
The Noel-Ramsey home (also referred to as the Old French House) is the oldest home in Greensboro. Constructed between 1819-21 by Thomas and Anne Hurte …
The Oak Grove School is a historic two-room Rosenwald School that was built to serve the local African-American community. The school was constructed …
The Old Hale County Jail served Hale County from its completion in 1908 until 1999, when it was replaced by the modern Hale County Corrections facilit …
John Straiton, a graduate of Emory University, was Greensboro’s most prolific builder during the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is responsible for the …
This two-story, vernacular Victorian house was built circa 1890. Features of the house include complex roofline and massing, central double leaf entra …
Southern University was founded in Greensboro by the Methodists in 1856. This school prospered during the 1800s. In 1918, it merged with Birmingham So …
Established in 1993 by architects Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee and D. K. Ruth, Rural Studio is a part of Auburn University’s School of Architecture. The Ru …
This home was built circa 1890 by Governor and Mrs. Thomas Seay. Thomas Seay was a native of Hale County. He began his political career in 1874 when h …
This 2 ½ story house, with its complex roof line and façade arrangement, is one of the most detailed dwellings in Greensboro. The first floor features …
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