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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2829_pottery-shops-in-rock-mills-the-potters-of-rock-mills_Roanoke-AL.html
Pottery Shops in Rock Mills
After the Civil War, the establishment of the textile industry led to the growth of Rock Mills and subsequent potteries became established in town. By 1900, potteries here produced utilitarian wares covered in the t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2821_pottery-making-families-of-randolph-county-early-pottery-shops-of-randolph-county_Roanoke-AL.html
Pottery-Making Families of Randolph County
During the 1830s, pottery-making families moved directly from the Carolinas and Georgia. Most came from the Edgefield District of western South Carolina, which boasted an important pottery-making center.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2820_wedhadkee-yarn-mills_Roanoke-AL.html
Near this site soon after Threat of Cusseta 1832, Peter A. Hogg built a grist mill on Wehadkee Creek, named for local Indian tribe. Settlement first called Prothro's Mill for James Prothro, who, with John McPherson, obtained a U.S. land patent in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7KF_lebanon-christian-church_Roanoke-AL.html
Founded March 31, 1864 by evangelist Moses Park. William Terry Kirby, Sr. and Nancy T. Greer Kirby donated four acres of land adjacent to their home for the church site. Services were first conducted at a brush arbor on the property, which later b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7KD_roanoke-doll-factory_Roanoke-AL.html
Ella Gannt Smith, artist, inventor, manufactured in this building the famous Roanoke Dolls. The dolls, completely handmade, featured a head molded of plaster of Paris enclosed in a tight cotton fabric cut and stuffed to resemble body, hands and le…