RuralSWAlabama

Beaver Creek Baptist Church in south Marengo County, AL (organized 1885, present church building completed 1894)

The Beaver Creek Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1885 and their first services were held in the Pope schoolhouse which was located a short distance southwest of the present church site. The present church building was completed in 1894. It …

Syd Etheridge House at Beaver Creek, AL (built ca. 1901; relocated & enlarged ca. 1906)

This was the home of Syd and Aletha Etheridge. When Syd and Aletha married in 1901, they started with a small, two-room, dogtrot log cabin. Three of their children were born while they lived in this small cabin. Around 1906, they disassembled and moved …