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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261X_columbia-cemetery_Columbia-AL.html
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The Columbia Cemetery was started in the 1830s on land given
by Rev. Edmund Talbot. It postdates the abandoned Omussee
Creek Church Cemetery located a mile SW of here. A "public
Meeting house," which served as the Columbia Baptist C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261U_omussee-creek-mound-and-mississippian-period-societies_Columbia-AL.html
Near where you stand lies Omussee Creek Mound, the southernmost
platform mound along the Chattahoochee River, occupied
approximately 1300 to 1550 A.D. as part of an important
Native American settlement. This region of southeastern Alabama an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261T_omussee-creek-mound-and-the-ancestors-of-the-creek_Columbia-AL.html
We do not know the exact date that residents of the community of which Omussee Creek Mound was a part abandoned the mound, but by around 1550 it was definitely in decline. Many believe this may have been part of a broader, regional depopulation du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM261S_the-chacato-people_Columbia-AL.html
The original builders of the Omussee Creek mound
had abandoned the site by around 1550, but the
area continued to be occupied by Native American
groups well into the early nineteenth century. As early as
the 1630s, Spanish missionaries fro…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E58_old-columbia-jail-columbia_Columbia-AL.html
(side 1)Old Columbia Jail
Erected sometime in the early 1860's, the Old Columbia Jail is today one of the last wooden jails still standing in Alabama. Originally, there were two cells, each measuring 10 x 15 feet. Interior walls are studded eve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E54_columbia-alabama_Columbia-AL.html
Founded in 1820, Columbia was originally located about a mile south, near where the Omussee Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River. It served as the county seat of Henry County from 1826 to 1833. Bordering the State of Georgia and the Chattahooc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E53_columbia-methodist-episcopal-church-south_Columbia-AL.html
Side 1History suggests that, in the early 1820's, circuit riding preachers from the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in the newly settled town of Columbia. Assigned to the Early County Mission in Georgia, these m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E51_columbia-baptist-church_Columbia-AL.html
Side 1This church was constituted in 1835 following the withdrawal of six people from Omussee Baptist Church in a dispute over the role of missions. The first pastor Edmund Talbot, who served the Church until 1853, donated that land and had the ch…