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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24I1_behind-the-big-house_Orrville-AL.html
Two story brick slave quarters like the
one before you were not typical, but they
could be found in wealthy towns like
Cahawba.
Stephen Barker built these quarters in
1860 on the northern edge of town.
As you can see in the photograp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24I0_the-duke-of-cahaba_Orrville-AL.html
Look around you. There are hundreds
of pecan trees growing nearby. All were
planted by Clifton Kirkpatrick, a.k.a.
The Duke of Cahaba." (Note: Cahawba
lost its "w" by the late 19th century.)
In 1889 Samuel and Sarah Kirkpatrick
move…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24HJ_cahawba-circa-1500_Orrville-AL.html
Two Ghost Towns?
Long before Cahawba was built as
Alabama's first state capital, there was
another village at this location. Just like
Cahawba, it thrived for about 50 years,
then disappeared.
About the year 1500 a group of Native
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24HH_who-lived-here_Orrville-AL.html
This house, the Fambro / Arthur home,
takes its name from two of its owners.
One was a judge, the other was a former
slave.
The Fambro Family
A. Judge W. W. Fambro built this house
in the early 1840s. He may have created
his home…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FF_memorials-for-prisoners-of-war_Orrville-AL.html
These are not graves.
These are markers to memoralize
the Federal soldiers who died in the
Cahawba Military Prison during the
Civil War. The men within the prison
called it "Castle Morgan."
No one knows where in Cahawba these
men we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FE_methodist-church_Orrville-AL.html
These ruins were once a place of worship for members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Built in 1849, it was the first single denomination church in Cahawba. An earlier church for the common use of all denominations was erected about 1840. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EJ_whitt-cemetery_Orrville-AL.html
Whitt Cemetery has been placed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register by the Alabama Historical Commission
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EH_anna-gayle-fry-house_Orrville-AL.html
Home site of the author of "Memories of Old Cahaba," whose family lived here from the Capital's earliest days as landowners and lawyers, giving her a rich legacy of town history. Married to a doctor, she moved to Galveston, Texas, and returned her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FQZ_cahawbas-changing-landscape_Orrville-AL.html
In 1818, Alabama's first governor carved the capital city of Cahawba out of the wilderness. In less than 50 years, Cahawba grew from a frontier capital full of log cabins to one of America's wealthiest communities, with some of the finest mansion…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FQK_footprint-of-a-church_Orrville-AL.html
St. Lukes Episcopal Church was built at Cahawba in 1854 but was dismantled and moved sometime after 1884 but
before 1888. It was reassembled fifteen miles away in a rural community called Martin's Station. The raised outline before you indicates …