This small one-room church was built circa 1848. The outside of the building is clad with wooden clapboards made of true 1″ x 6″ hand-hewn lumber. The …
Judge and Mrs. Johnathan Newberry Stanford owned this home in the mid-1880s. He served as Judge of Probate for Wilcox County from 1907-1917. The hou …
Antioch Baptist Church, which opened in 1885, is one of the oldest African-American churches in Wilcox County. It sits on a rise on the outskirts of …
The Arlington Methodist Church was built circa 1887 using lumber from George Lynch’s mill near Kimbrough, AL. George Lynch built the church building, …
Located in front of this church is a historical marker. Following are the details provided on this marker: “This building was constructed c. 1849 as a …
This home, known as “River Bluff House,” was built around 1847 for William King Beck, a nephew of William Rufus King, Vice-President of the United Sta …
This house, commonly referred to as “The Beck Place”, is a two-story frame building constructed circa 1850-60 in a vernacular interpretation of the Gr …
This historic building located in Camden’s downtown historic district served as the law office for Colonel Franklin King Beck. Colonel Beck, who comma …
The Bethea-Strother house, also known as “Pleasant Ridge”, is the only brick antebellum residence remaining in Wilcox County, and one of the few extan …
The Bethel Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church was established as the old Lebanon ARP Church near Hamburg in the early 1820s. In 1856, a yellow fe …
Bethsaida Baptist Church was founded in 1831 at a site very close to the present building. Elder Hawthorne was the first pastor, and some of the found …
Black Belt Treasures is a non-profit organization developed to showcase and promote the artists of the Alabama Black Belt region. Since opening its ga …
The Canton Bend United Methodist Church congregation was organized on December 12, 1897. In 1910, Percy Smith and Irvin Smith deeded land for the chur …
This two-story, plantation home was built circa 1850. The house design is attributed to local builder William T. Mathews. This house has an unusual st …
This home was constructed in the late 1830’s or early 1840’s by either Addison Scarbrough or Edmond Hobdy. Mr. Hobdy built several homes in the area d …
Alabama has many beautiful rivers and lakes and the US Army Corp of Engineers has several parks and campgrounds that allow you the perfect opportunity …
The Dale Masonic Lodge organized at Dale Town (later Prairie Bluff) in 1827. When the town declined in the 1840s, members voted to move the lodge to C …
This two story Queen Anne style house was built in 1903. It contains a hipped roof with two cross gables, a wraparound porch with paired or cluttered …
Dry Fork is a historic plantation home located in the Sedan community near Camden, AL. This is one of the oldest documented homes still standing in Wi …
This is the oldest documented structure in Camden. It was built for Thomas Dunn who was one of the earliest settlers of this area. It is believed that …
This church congregation was organized in 1845. The original church building was erected in 1856. It burned on September 17, 1869 and the present bu …
The original church building was constructed in 1857 on the present site of land. The current building was completed in 1882 and was an active church …
Furman, AL is a small community located is eastern Wilcox County. On May 13, 1999, the “Furman Historic District” was placed on the National Register …
It’s believed that this dwelling was built in the late 1820s. The house’s modified I-frame architecture, the absence of a center hallway, and federal …
The Presbyterians originally built in the area a hewn-log house for a church. It was replaced with a frame building in 1830. The present Greek Reviva …
This is one of several “Sears, Roebuck & Co.” homes that were shipped by railroad to Wilcox County in the early 1900’s. They came as modular secti …
The Hawthorne House, also known as the Col. J. R. Hawthorne House, is a historic plantation house located in east Wilcox County in the community of Pi …
The Horn-Jones-Sadler law office was built around 1846. It is a one-story, shotgun structure with a gabled end portico. The building contains Victor …
Arthur Pendleton Bagby, who served two terms as Governor of Alabama (1837 and 1839) and later as a U. S. Senator, moved to Camden in 1853. He contrac …
During the early 1840s, the county seat underwent a name change from Barboursville to Camden. During this time, local dentist Benjamin Thompson purcha …
This historic antebellum home is one of the finest examples of neoclassical architecture in Alabama. It is located in Wilcox County near the community …
The McDowell House, also known as Liberty Hall, was built during the early 1850s for John Robert McDowell by W. W. Robinson. This two-story Greek Revi …
Millers Ferry Campground, also known as East Bank, is a beautiful park that is maintained by the US Army Corp of Engineers. It is located on the Will …
This building was Wilcox County ‘s third county jail. It was constructed in 1889 by L. Y. Tarrant for $4800. In 1960, jail operations were moved to a …
This “coastal cottage” is thought to have been built in the 1830s by Stephen and Juliet Palmer and possibly modified by Dabney Palmer around 1860. It …
This beautiful home was built around 1895 by James Nicholas Perdue (1860-1930) and his wife, Katie Jones Perdue (1861-1933). The home is a two-story f …
Pine Apple is a scenic community located on the east side of Wilcox County. The historical marker that’s shown is beside Hwy 10 on the west edge of Pi …
Founded by circuit riders as the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the first minister was Rev. A Gillis. Several additions have been made to the 1872 …
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 int …
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