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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16O1_george-corley-wallace-lurleen-burns-wallace-governors-of-alabama_Clayton-AL.html
George and Lurleen Wallace spent much time at Memorial Hall with their involvement in community events and the education of their children. They served 17 years as Governor and were the only husband and wife to serve as Alabama's Governor. Wallace…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16MZ_jere-locke-beasely_Clayton-AL.html
Jere Locke Beasley was born in Tyler, Texas on December 12, 1935. At a young age, Beasley and his family moved to Clayton, Alabama very near the Pratt's Station Community in which great-great-grandfather had settled in 1819. He served as the 22nd …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15DT_fort-browder-15th-alabama-infantry_Midway-AL.html
Fort Browder Approximately one mile south-southwest of here stood Fort Browder, a small wooden fortification built in 1836 for protection in the last war with the Creek Indians and named for Isham Browder, a prominent local planter. In 1861, the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15DS_election-riot-of-1874_Midway-AL.html
Near here is old Spring Hill, the site of one of the polling places for the November 3, 1874 local, state and national elections. Elias M. Keils, scalawag and judge of the Circuit Court of Eufaula, was United States Supervisor at the Spring Hill b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15BL_providence-methodist-church-schoolhouse_Midway-AL.html
In 1832, Rev. John Wesley Norton located near Batesville and established the Providence Methodist Church and School which thrived for many years until his death in 1862. Located four miles south, only the Providence Cemetery remains where Rev. Nor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15BK_union-baptist-church-cemetery_Clayton-AL.html
Church founded in 1835 and rebuilt in 1947. Union Baptist Church is the second oldest Baptist church in Barbour County.In memory of Reverend John L. Dowling.Loving husband and father.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15AU_history-of-clayton-alabama-claytons-architectural-heritage_Clayton-AL.html
(Front):County Seat of Barbour CountyClayton, the county seat of Barbour County is located geographically in the center of the county. The town was located at the headwaters of the Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers on the historic road from Hobdy's Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15AR_louisville_Louisville-AL.html
One of the oldest towns in southeast Alabama was settled in 1817 by Daniel Lewis who established a trading post and named the community "Louisville" after the first capital of Georgia, his hometown. By 1820 four stores, a Methodist congregation wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15AG_grace-episcopal-church_Clayton-AL.html
This church had its origins in a mission station established by the Rev. J. L. Gay in 1844. On May 10, 1872 the mission was formally accepted in the Diocese of Alabama as Grace Church. Construction of a church building began in 1875 on a lot owned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15AF_miller-martin-townhouse_Clayton-AL.html
John H. Miller built this Gothic Revival townhouse in 1859. He and his wife moved from Orangeburg, South Carolina to Barbour County in the early 1830s, settling in an area which would become known as the Tabernacle community. He later purchased a …