The Lincoln Normal School was a historic African American school in Marion, Alabama. Lincoln Normal was founded in 1867 by freed slaves as a school fo …
This house was built in the early 1840s as the home of Napoleon Lockett and his wife, Mary. Mrs. Lockett is credited for the creation of the first Con …
This Greek Revival style house was built in 1854 by E. H. Bernhard and his wife, the former Eugenia Howard Lockhart. It has a central portico balcony, …
This home, built circa 1856, was owned and probably constructed by David Lockhart. It has plain woodwork and mantels, simple pine stair rail and newe …
Marion Military Institute (MMI) traces its origins back to 1842 with the creation of Howard College in Marion, Alabama by the Alabama Baptist Conventi …
The Marion Presbyterian Church was organized on July 30, 1832. The present building was constructed in the 1870’s using Norman-style architecture and …
Methodists had their beginnings in Marion in 1819. Prior to the construction of the present church building, the Methodist congregation used the Maso …
This Colonial Revival house was built by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas McCorkle. Construction began on the house in 1906 and it was completed in 1908. This is a …
This home was originally built as a small Victorian cottage by William T. Miree and his wife, Paralee Richardson Miree, around 1880. Their daughter, M …
This home, built in the 1840s, is the only Gothic style house in Marion. Constructed in cruciform pattern, the two-story house has a central wide por …
West of Marion, AL in the community of Folsom is one of Alabama’s last active plantations, one which has been in the same family since the early 1800s …
This historical marker located in front of the Perry County Courthouse in Marion. Following is the text on this historical marker: Side 1: MUCKLE”S RI …
This , two-story, Greek Revival house was built circa 1848 for Mark A. Myatt, who was a merchant and planter. The home has a three-bay façade. The cen …
This building was built circa 1832 as a law office. It was the first YMCA building in the South to be owned by a local chapter. Additionally, the buil …
Built in 1907 to replace the frame depot building, which was destroyed by fire. Interest in railroads began as early as 1834 in Marion. The building i …
Reputedly, this was Uniontown’s original post office. This structure was originally attached to the Houston house that was built before January 1, 18 …
This two-story farmhouse, built circa 1834 by Joel Parish, his wife, Emma Curby, and their children, is one of the oldest buildings in Perry County. …
In recent years, Bald Eagles have nested in a giant loblolly pine near the entrance to this 600-acre park. The park contains four oxbow lakes, formed …
In 1867, the black members of the Uniontown Methodist Episcopal Church South withdrew and established their own church. For a short time, they met in …
Reverie is a historic Greek Revival mansion that was built circa 1858. The house was photographed and recorded by the Historic American Buildings Surv …
This house was originally a one-story home built circa 1834 by Captain Samuel Madison Scott at Scott’s Station, just west of Marion. Captain Scott’s w …
This two story-frame dwelling was built about 1860. It has an end chimney, nine over nine double hung windows, and a single bay entrance with a full h …
The Siloam Baptist Church was established in 1822. During the mid-19th century, it was Alabama’s most influential Baptist congregation and one of the …
Originally a two-story brick building. this structure had a major renovation in 1905. Ceramic tile was applied over the former brick façade, and the c …
The Episcopal Church in Marion was established in 1838 under the name of St. Michael’s Parish (not to be confused with the slightly later St. Michael’ …
This house was built circa 1852 by Dr. Henry Talbird, second president of Howard College. It was sold in 1856 to Isaac Billingsley and his wife, Ann J …
The Camellias is a beautiful antebellum home located just south of Marion, AL. It gets its name from the many camellia bushes located on the front la …
This historic Uniontown mansion was boarded up and abandoned in the mid-1990s after the remains of a boy who had been reported missing nine years earl …
Founded in 1835, the Marion Female Seminary was one of the earliest colleges for women in the United States. It was the first of four colleges establi …
Built circa 1910, this old jail is a major landmark in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights movement. It was involved in many events that occurred in Ma …
This small store contained the post office that served the Sprott, AL community for over 100 years – from 1881 until it was closed in 1993. The post o …
Perry County was created by an act of the Legislature of the newly formed State of Alabama on December 13, 1819. The first courthouse, a log cabin, wa …
“Twin Magnolias”, also referred to as the Myatt-Hancock house, is thought to have been built around 1845. It originally had a Greek Revival style cons …
As early as 1843, the Methodists of Uniontown had purchased a lot on Water Street and a church had been erected before the summer of 1844. This buildi …
This Victorian-style home was built prior to 1884 by Moses and Flora Marx on a lot they purchased in June 1879. An affluent Jewish family, they owned …
James Lewis Price, a native of Richmond, Virginia, began construction on this Greek Revival house in 1836, completing it in 1840. Price and his wife, …
This house was built circa 1901 for John Henry (Harry) and Fannie B. White. It combines the picturesque qualities of late Victorian architecture with …
This Greek Revival style home was built about 1838. Attached to the house is the building which once served as headquarters of the Alabama Baptist Sta …
Located adjacent to the town square, Zion United Methodist Church was a focal point for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The night march that …
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