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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYB_site-of-alabamas-statehouse_Orrville-AL.html
This structure collapsed in 1833 and its fallen remains were reportedly heaped into a railroad embankment. Consequently, we have no picture of the Statehouse that was drawn by someone who actually saw the building. Any modern picture you see of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY8_cahaba-first-state-capital_Orrville-AL.html
This stone marks the site of Cahaba, selected November 21, 1818 as the first permanent capital of Alabama. The seat of goverment remaining here until removed to Tuscaloosa by the Legislature, January 1825.
On December 13, 1819, it was fixed as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMES0_kirk-view-farm_Orrville-AL.html
In 1866, shortly after the Civil War and a severe flood, the county seat was moved from Cahaba to Selma. Residents rapidly abandoned the town. Many homes were dismantled and reassembled elsewhere.
Despite this trend, returning Confederate veter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEMV_the-beloit-industrial-institute_Orrville-AL.html
Marker Front:The Beloit Industrial Institute was founded in 1888 by Industrial Missionary Association, an area subdivision of the American Missionary Associations. The President of the Association, Dr. Charles B. Curtis, was a Presbyterian mission…