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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5L_cottonwood-alabama_Cottonwood-AL.html
In April 1903, the Town of Cottonwood was incorporated, making it the first town established in Houston County. The town's name may have come from either Mr. Wood, an influential land owner, or from the softwood trees growing in the area. General …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5K_first-baptist-church_Dothan-AL.html
In November 1887 nine charter members organized the First Baptist Church of Dothan. In 1888 the Church erected a one room frame structure at 205 South Saint Andrews Street. A beautiful Gothic brick building in the SE corner of Main and Oates St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5J_headland-presbyterian-church_Dothan-AL.html
Side 1Organized on July 8, 1897 by the commission of South Alabama Presbytery. From the original seventeen members, J.D. Jones, N. M. McDonald, and I. M. Barton were elected ruling elders and Dr. Charles Sporman, D. R. Redding, and W. R. McDonald …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5I_the-waddell-house_Dothan-AL.html
Side 1This quaint turn of the century farmhouse originally stood on an 80 acre farm, located 2 miles west of the Houston County Courthouse. The house was built by Bud Bush of heart pine lumber from the sawmill owned and operated by Lesker H. Wadde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5H_shelley-general-store_Dothan-AL.html
Side 1William Lafayette Shelley (1868-1953), son of Mark Shelley and Mary Jane Ronie Shelley, was a progressive farmer and entrepreneur in the Tumbleton community of Henry County, Alabama. "Papa Billy", as he was known by family, impacted the reli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5E_mallalieu-seminary_Kinsey-AL.html
Side 1Organized in 1882 at nearby Rocky Creek Methodist Church for educational purposes. This school, which occupied approximately seven acres surrounding this marker, was supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church North. This school was first kn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5D_liberty-baptist-church_Pansey-AL.html
The church was organized in 1867 under a brush arbor very near the present sanctuary. The brush arbor was replaced by a log building and services were conducted in the log building until approximately 1895. It was in 1895 that Liberty Baptist Chur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5C_gordon-baptist-church_Gordon-AL.html
Side 1Baptists of Gordon first erected a brush arbor church, Hope Arbor, circa 1819. On May 16, 1867 James Pynes gave one acre and timber to build a church in the town center. Pynes, William Wood and John T. Davis, Building Committee, signed the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5B_gordon-cemetery-early-gordon-leaders_Gordon-AL.html
(side 1)Gordon Cemetery Mr. William Wood (b. 22 Mar. 1826, d. 15 Oct. 1885), a prominent Gordon businessman, donated one acre of land located north of the town center adjacent to the old river road, now U.S. Highway 95, from his large plantatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E5A_purcell-killingsworth-house_Columbia-AL.html
This house, also known as Travelers Rest, was completed in 1890 by William Henry Purcell (1845-1910) a prominent Columbia businessman and politician. Purcell had many business interests including a steamboat landing on the Chattahoochee River. Thi…
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