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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCM_first-presbyterian-church-of-prattville-alabama_Prattville-AL.html
Organized 1846 by Pastor Wm. H. Mitchell, this congregation succeeded Millenium Hope Presbyterian, 2 mi. E. of town. Pastor Jas. K. Hazen (1861-77) married Mary Ticknor, niece of town founder, Daniel Pratt. They led in establishing orphanage, now …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCL_doster-road-artesian-well-house_Prattville-AL.html
Prattville is often referred to as "The Fountain City" for the numerous free-flowing artesian wells found here. A 1933 edition of the Prattville Progress noted that there were more than 400 of these artesian wells in Prattville and its immediate v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCK_wilson-pickett-jr_Prattville-AL.html
A native of Prattville, Wilson Pickett was raised singing gospel in local churches. Upon moving to Detroit as a teenager, he began to blend gospel-style with rhythm and blues, resulting in some of "the deepest, funkiest soul music" to come from th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCI_sidney-lanier-prattville-male-and-female-academy-site_Prattville-AL.html
Side 1Sidney Lanier1842-1881The poet and musician, born in Macon, Georgia, was Academy principal in 1867-68. He married Mary H. Day of Macon in December 1867. In Prattville, they lived at the Mims Hotel and later in Dr. S.P. Smith's home.
Follo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCH_saint-marks-episcopal-church_Prattville-AL.html
Saint Mark's was organized in 1859 as a mission of the Diocese of Alabama. Services were first held at the Presbyterian Church and in the old Court House. In December 1876, the congregation purchased an old wooden frame chapel from the Methodists …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCG_happy-hollow_Prattville-AL.html
Known as Fair Road, Sixth Street from Northington Street to the big curve was called "Happy Hollow". The road went to the Fair home place but also curved right, into Warren Circle. Here stood a small frame church where the congregation's enthusias…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCF_pratt-gin-factory_Prattville-AL.html
Once the world's largest plant manufacturing cotton gins.
Founded 1833 by Daniel Pratt, the greatest industrialist of Alabama prior to 1860. Pratt's many industries were of great aid to Confederacy during Northern blockade.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCE_indian-springs-post-office-thomas-hill-house-union-baptist-meeting-house_Prattville-AL.html
Indian Springs Post OfficeLocation of considerable Community activity in the early nineteenth-century Autauga County
Thomas Hill HouseSite of first Court after Autauga became a County
Union Baptist Meeting House1830s forerunner of First Bapt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CCC_buena-vista_Prattville-AL.html
This antebellum plantation house was completed by Capt. William Montgomery, a contemporary of Prattville's founder, Daniel Pratt.
This "Deep South" architecture reflects the Federal style with the later addition of a Colonial Revival facade tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIMC_pratt-homesite_Prattville-AL.html
Daniel Pratt, Prattville's founding father,constructed an imposing home and gardenwithin a quarter-mile of this site onAutauga Creek, near his industrial complex.The large home was designed and erected byPratt himself, a noted architect / builder.…