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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7R_crocherons-row_Orrville-AL.html
A "row" was a 19th century shopping mall. The word was used whan building or block had several similar storefronts arranged in a straight line or row.
This celler marks the spot where David and Nicholas Crocheron built a large 2 story brick row…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7Q_the-duke-of-cahaba_Orrville-AL.html
In 1889, Samuel and Sarah Kirkpatrick moved to Selma, leaving their farm and house in the capable hands of their son Clifton (1863-1930). He turned the abandoned remains of Alabama's first capital into a showcase farm of diversified, scientific ag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7O_orrville-united-methodist-church_Orrville-AL.html
Frank Orr and his brother, William, settled Orrville in the early 1800's with a very strong religious group of people. A church was soon organized and a place of worship was built on this site in 1846. The church was known as the Methodist Episcop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4Z_st-lukes-episcopal-church_Orrville-AL.html
St. Luke's was consecrated in 1854. It was an outstanding example of the Gothic Revival style, popular at the time. The contractor closely followed designs in a widely circulated book, Rural Architecture, published in 1852 by the celebrated archit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4E_the-crocheron-columns_Orrville-AL.html
The Crocherons were from Staten Island, New York. Richard Conner Crocheron arrived in town about 1837 to help run the family store.
He traveled north for his bride in 1843 after building her this brick home. The back wall adjoined the brick sto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZM_major-hiram-solon-hanchett_Orrville-AL.html
On January 20th, 1865, Major Hanchett lead a daring, but unsuccessful escape from the military prison that was located on this spot.
He was then moved to the dungeon of the county jail, located on First North Street. In March the other Union So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZL_castle-morgan-jesse-hawes_Orrville-AL.html
The Union soldiers held captive in Cahaba's Civil War Prison, called the place Castle Morgan in honor of a daring Confederate raider. In 1888 Jesse Hawes published a book about his imprisonment in Castle Morgan. He drew this diagram from memory.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZK_a-prison-chimney_Orrville-AL.html
This engraving of the Union Prison at Cahaba was published in 1877 by Benson J. Lossing. The stockade had already been removed, so the details of the brick structure are visible.
The artist apparently was in a boat in the Alabama River, behind …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZJ_civil-war-prison_Orrville-AL.html
In 1858, the railroad company graded away an Indian mound that stood here. A brick warehouse was built in its place. From 1863 - 1865 the Confederate government used this warehouse to hold captured Federal Soldiers. You are standing on a pile of b…
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…