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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15H3_aberfoil-community_Union-Springs-AL.html
The town of Aberfoil was incorporated January 26, 1839, in then Macon County, with the first election for councilors conducted and managed by Lewis Stoudenmire, Charles G. Lynch, Thomas Scott, David Hudson, and A. J. and E. A. Jackson. Aberfoil wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15H2_indian-treaty-boundary-line_Union-Springs-AL.html
The Treaty of Fort Jackson of August 9, 1814, by Major General Andrew Jackson on behalf of the President of the United States of America and the Chiefs, Deputies and Warriors of the Creek Nation, established a boundary line between the Mississippi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15H1_indian-treaty-boundary-line_Union-Springs-AL.html
The Treaty of Fort Jackson of August 9, 1814, by Major General Andrew Jackson on behalf of the President of the United States of America and the Chiefs, Deputies and Warriors of the Creek Nation, established a boundary line between the Mississippi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15FP_trinity-episcopal-church-red-door-theater_Union-Springs-AL.html
Trinity Episcopal Church was established in Union Springs by Rev. DeBerniere Waddell in 1872 as a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama with seventeen communicants and an annual budget of $412.50. Until 1879 services were held monthly in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15FM_log-cabin-museum-old-city-cemetery_Union-Springs-AL.html
Log Cabin MuseumEarly settlers of this area cleared land and built their first homes of logs in the early 1830s. This cabin was built by Reuben Rice Kirkland (1829-1915) about 1850. He and his first wife had ten children while living in the log ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15F6_bullock-county-courthouse-historic-district_Union-Springs-AL.html
The Bullock County Courthouse Historic District in Union Springs consists of 47 structures along three blocks of Prairie Street. Focal point of the district is the 1871 courthouse which is one of the finest post-bellum courthouses in the state and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15F5_union-springs-alabama_Union-Springs-AL.html
In the early 1800s, settlers coming from the Carolinas and Georgia received land grants and some purchased land from the Indians. The settled and cleared the forest for new farms and plantations in what would become a newly formed State of Alabama…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15F2_first-baptist-missionary-church-1875_Midway-AL.html
The Macedonia Baptist Church, located between the communities of Midway and Mt. Coney, was constructed by freedmen after the American Civil War, replacing the brush arbors used by the area's antebellum slaves as sites for religious worship. Four s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15E6_old-merritt-school-midway-community-center_Midway-AL.html
Margaret Elizabeth Merritt of Midway sold two acres for $5 to the state of Alabama in 1921 as a site for an elementary school for African-American children. Built in 1922 with matching Rosenwald funds, the Midway Colored Public School featured oak…
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St. James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church founded by Reverend Jack McMillan, a former slave of Midway's Daniel McMillan. Initially meeting outdoors under a brush arbor, ex-slaves and their children constructed a wood-frame church building soo…
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