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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W4_the-opening-of-the-second-phase-of-the-second-creek-war_Louisville-AL.html
The Second Creek War began in May of 1836 when a portion of area Creeks, angry at their treatment in the wake of the Treaty of Cusseta and in desperate circumstances, struck out against American settlements. A series of small battles occurred thro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W3_the-battles-of-hobdys-bridge-and-pea-river_Louisville-AL.html
The battles of Hobdy's Bridge and Pea River were the result of the desperate attempt of Creeks to avoid removal to the West by fleeing to Florida along trails bordering the Pea and Conecuh Rivers. The battles marked the last large-scale confrontat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VX_louisville-and-old-alabama_Louisville-AL.html
Louisville is one of the oldest communities in southeastern Alabama. Locąted within territory ceded by the Creeks in the Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) ending the Creek War, the area was first settled by Americans as early as 1817. Many of its…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23UX_louisville-world-war-ii-memorial-a-war-memorial_Louisville-AL.html
In memory of
these men who
gave their lives
in World War II
Jim A. (Jack) Bradley
Amuel Buren Canant
James Edward Hagler
Foy Glenn Hartzog
David Lamar Smith
William Arden Stephens
George Robert Self, M.M.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OLM_barbour-countys-little-scotland-pea-river-presbyterian-church_Louisville-AL.html
Barbour County's "Little Scotland"
In the 1820's before the Creek Indian Cession, Scot immigrants from Richmond County, North Carolina, settled this area of west Barbour County. Few other regions outside the motherland of Scotland hav…
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/HM1587_the-old-county-court-house_Louisville-AL.html
Near this site stood the old Pike County court house which was the county seat of Pike from 1822 to 1827. It also served as the temporary county seat of the newly created Barbour County in 1833, until Clayton was selected. Louisville was settled b…