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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22UG_livingston-state-college_Livingston-AL.html
Chartered in 1840 as Livingston Collegiate Institute (1835: Female Presbyterian Academy planned). In 1883, by work of Julia Tutwiler, Alabama legislature made its first grant of funds to a girls school. In 1907: State Normal school. In 1929: becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RAZ_line-32-degrees-28-north-latitude_Cuba-AL.html
Northern boundary of British W Florida 1764 - 83, Spanish E Florida 1783 - 95 Mississippi Territory 1798 - 1804, Washington County 1800 - 12, Clarke County 1812-15 Southern boundary of British Illinois 1764-83, United States 1783-95. Line fixed in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QS3_sumter-county-confederate-monument_Livingston-AL.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QS2_livingston-ala_Livingston-AL.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRZ_town-of-emelle-alabama_Emelle-AL.html
This community honors Emelle Dial, whose father Joseph Dial gave land to the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad with the provision that the station be named for his daughter. The daughter is said to have been named for her two aunts, Emma an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRY_sumter-countys-covered-bridge_Livingston-AL.html
1860 Captain W. A. C. Jones of Livingston designed and built the bridge of hand-hewn yellow pine put together with large pegs, clear span 88 feet, overhead clearance 14 feet, and inside width 17 feet, across the Sucarnoochee River on old State Roa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRX_sumter-county_Livingston-AL.html
1736: First settlement by French at Ft. Tombecbee.
1830: U.S. got Choctaw Indian lands by Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.
1832: County created by Act of State Legislature — named for Gen. Thomas Sumter, "The Gamecock," South C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRV_livingston-alabama-livingstons-bored-well_Livingston-AL.html
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Livingston, Alabama
Prior to the signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek on September 27, 1830, this site belonged to the Choctaw Nation. Early settlers to the area came from the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. In 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OOF_history-of-york-the-coleman-center_York-AL.html
History of York
Legend has it that York began at a blacksmith shop called Old Anvil, located at a crossroads a few miles northwest of the present city. Circa 1833, early settlers of a site located east of modern-day York on the old Livingston-G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OOE_line-32-28-north-latitude_York-AL.html
Northern Boundary of:
British W. Florida 1764-83
Spanish W. Florida 1783-95
Mississippi Territory: 1798-1804
Washington County 1800-12
Clarke County 1812-15
Southern Boundary of:
British Illinois 1764-83
United States 1783-95
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