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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O7T_mooresville-alabama-mooresville-stagecoach-inn-and-tavern_Mooresville-AL.html
(Side 1) Mooresville, Alabama Incorporated November 16, 1818 Mooresville Post Office, c.1840, is the oldest operational post office in the state of Alabama. It has served the community form the same building since its construction of sawmill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KBZ_round-island-baptist-church_Athens-AL.html
Side A A church older than the county and state. First meeting house built in the fall of 1816, on Indian land, a few miles south of there along Round Island Creek. The first Govt. Land sales were in Feb. 1818 after treaties with the Chickasaws i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GHE_cotton-hill_Athens-AL.html
A grand two story brick house built in the Federal style with a double tier pedimented Palladian portico. The house displays architectural features brought to Limestone County by early settlers from Southside Virginia, and adjacent North Carolina.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EHN_old-new-garden-cemetery-new-garden-cumberland-presbyterian-church_Elkmont-AL.html
(Side A)Old New Garden Cemetery This cemetery is one of the oldest in Limestone County and is listed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register. Many of the areas earliest settlers are buried here including Patsy Elmore, widow of a Rev. War vete…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DJJ_limestone-county-tornado-memorial_Athens-AL.html
Primary markerThe bricks in these walls were once part of the homes of Limestone Countians. Each one represents a dream, and the loss of that dream on April 27, 2011, when seven tornadoes hit Limestone County and 62 struck in Alabama, killing 247 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DCD_athens-alabama_Athens-AL.html
In 1818, Robert Beaty and John D. Carriel, co-founders of the town of Athens, donated ground for all public buildings, including $8,000 toward the erection on this site of a log court house. Among their donations were the springs which supply A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DCC_courthouse-and-poor-farm-fence_Athens-AL.html
A section of the fence that surrounded the 'Court House' ground until 1916. When construction of the present building was planned, the fence was moved to the County Poor Farm on Elkton Rd. This section donated to the people of Limestone County …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DCB_trinity-school-cistern_Athens-AL.html
This cistern is the last remnant of Trinity School located here 1865-1907. The cistern was used to store rainwater collected from the roof. No physical evidence remains of the Ross Hotel, the Chapman Quarters, and other buildings on this block,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DBH_coleman-family_Athens-AL.html
Wealthy and influential Virginia family settled here in 1820's. Daniel Coleman (1801-1857) built his stately home a block west about 1826. During the Civil War, home as occupied by Yankee troops who took Elizabeth Coleman's teeth for their gold co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DAS_pleasant-hill_Athens-AL.html
FrontBuilt abt. 1849 by Rev. Robert Donnell, a native of North Carolina, and his second wife Clara Lindley Donnell. He was greatly inspired by the Great Spiritual Revival of 1800 and became a Presbyterian circuit rider, one of the "flaming fires,"…
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