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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261X_columbia-cemetery_Columbia-AL.html
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The Columbia Cemetery was started in the 1830s on land given
by Rev. Edmund Talbot. It postdates the abandoned Omussee
Creek Church Cemetery located a mile SW of here. A "public
Meeting house," which served as the Columbia Baptist C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261U_omussee-creek-mound-and-mississippian-period-societies_Columbia-AL.html
Near where you stand lies Omussee Creek Mound, the southernmost
platform mound along the Chattahoochee River, occupied
approximately 1300 to 1550 A.D. as part of an important
Native American settlement. This region of southeastern Alabama an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261T_omussee-creek-mound-and-the-ancestors-of-the-creek_Columbia-AL.html
We do not know the exact date that residents of the community of which Omussee Creek Mound was a part abandoned the mound, but by around 1550 it was definitely in decline. Many believe this may have been part of a broader, regional depopulation du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261S_the-chacato-people_Columbia-AL.html
The original builders of the Omussee Creek mound
had abandoned the site by around 1550, but the
area continued to be occupied by Native American
groups well into the early nineteenth century. As early as
the 1630s, Spanish missionaries fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261O_dothan-municipal-light-and-water-plant_Dothan-AL.html
Municipal
Light & Water Plant
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1991
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM260Y_dothan-dixie-standpipe_Dothan-AL.html
One hundred feet tall and sixteen feet in diameter, this structure embodies the significance of "pure and plentiful" water resulting in the city's early growth and development as the hub of the Wiregrass region. Through the careful stewardship of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y0E_first-missionary-baptist-church-historical_Dothan-AL.html
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In 1889, Georgia Baptists led by Reverend W. M. Carter organized the New Hope Baptist Church in the village of Poplar Head. Reverend Robert Nelson was called as the first pastor. In 1907, newly-elected trustees incorporated its successor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SQR_boyhood-home-of-rev-bob-jones_Dothan-AL.html
Near this spot was the boyhood home of Rev. Bob Jones, (1884-1968), D.D., L.L.D., internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University. The eleventh child of W. Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones, he was three months old when the fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E6K_the-steamboat-era_Dothan-AL.html
There were few roads in the Wiregrass in 1800s - and the roads that were here were little more than twin rutted paths. The main transportation in the region was the steamboats on the Chattahoochee River on the east, and, to a lesser degree, the bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E6E_ashford-centennial_Ashford-AL.html
Ashford was incorporated on June 22, 1891. Citizens, friends, and families of Ashford gathered here on June 22, 1991, to remember Ashford's durable and progressive history. This commemoration also affirmed their faith in Ashford's future by placin…