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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29FV_marengo-county-confederate-monument-a-war-memorial_Demopolis-AL.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DW7_office-of-joel-desaker-jones_Dixons-Mills-AL.html
Born January 15, 1861 - Died June 28, 1948Marengo Co. Surveyor, Historian, and JournalistAuthor of Democrat Reporter Newspaper Column "Old Times""He was a Baptist, A Mason, A Surveyor, an Old Timer"Epitaph by Joel D. JonesSponsored by Linden Wood,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVI_jefferson-baptist-church_Demopolis-AL.html
established asMt. Pleasant Baptistby Elder James Yarbrough in 1820with 27 charter members.By 1834 it had 150 members.Church among the oldest in Demopolis area.
Buried in church cemetery are John Gilmore, Reuben Hildreth and John Sample—Re…
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Built on two acres of land deeded by John D. Catlin, May 30, 1842, to Daniel E. Ellis, James Turner, David Compton and John Besteder, trustee of Methodist Episcopal Church known as Asbury Meeting House.
This early Greek Revival building was ded…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVG_old-marengo-county-courthouse_Linden-AL.html
Constructed 1848 and served as theseat of county government until 1903.October 9, 1890 Rube Burrows, the nations most notorious Train Robber, was slain here by Sheriff Jefferson D. Carter.
1903-1915 Linden Public School1915-1947 Linden Baptist …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVF_history-of-linden-alabama_Linden-AL.html
(side 1)The Alabama Territorial Legislature established Marengo County in 1818. The "Town of Marengo" was then surveyed near the center of the county to serve as county seat. In 1824 lots were sold, and early French immigrants named the town Hohen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVE_shiloh-baptist-church_Dixons-Mills-AL.html
The original building was located about three miles east of the present site near the village of Shiloh. It was used as a union church until it became a Baptist Church in 1842. A new building was erected at the present site and the first bodies we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVD_bethel-hill-missionary-baptist-church_Thomaston-AL.html
Following the Civil War and emancipation, newly freed African Americans, who had worshiped in the Bethel Church in McKinley while enslaved, established their own Bethel Church in a wooden house at the rear of the current church site. In the mid-18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVC_bethel-baptist-church-cemetery_Thomaston-AL.html
Constituted June 6, 1821 from the fruits of labor of the venerable Solomon Perkins, For four years after their constitution they enjoyed almost a continual revival. Home of Miss Willie Kelly, a missionary to China from 1894 to 1936. This church wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVB_history-of-the-town-of-thomaston_Thomaston-AL.html
(side 1)About 1830, settlers from the Carolinas and Virginia came to this area in search of fertile land. They staked their claims to adjoining plantations adjacent to what became Thomaston. In 1890, Dr. Charles Brooks Thomas bought the plantation…