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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7O_orrville-united-methodist-church_Orrville-AL.html
Frank Orr and his brother, William, settled Orrville in the early 1800's with a very strong religious group of people. A church was soon organized and a place of worship was built on this site in 1846. The church was known as the Methodist Episcop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4Z_st-lukes-episcopal-church_Orrville-AL.html
St. Luke's was consecrated in 1854. It was an outstanding example of the Gothic Revival style, popular at the time. The contractor closely followed designs in a widely circulated book, Rural Architecture, published in 1852 by the celebrated archit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4E_the-crocheron-columns_Orrville-AL.html
The Crocherons were from Staten Island, New York. Richard Conner Crocheron arrived in town about 1837 to help run the family store.
He traveled north for his bride in 1843 after building her this brick home. The back wall adjoined the brick sto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZM_major-hiram-solon-hanchett_Orrville-AL.html
On January 20th, 1865, Major Hanchett lead a daring, but unsuccessful escape from the military prison that was located on this spot.
He was then moved to the dungeon of the county jail, located on First North Street. In March the other Union So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZL_castle-morgan-jesse-hawes_Orrville-AL.html
The Union soldiers held captive in Cahaba's Civil War Prison, called the place Castle Morgan in honor of a daring Confederate raider. In 1888 Jesse Hawes published a book about his imprisonment in Castle Morgan. He drew this diagram from memory.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZK_a-prison-chimney_Orrville-AL.html
This engraving of the Union Prison at Cahaba was published in 1877 by Benson J. Lossing. The stockade had already been removed, so the details of the brick structure are visible.
The artist apparently was in a boat in the Alabama River, behind …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEZJ_civil-war-prison_Orrville-AL.html
In 1858, the railroad company graded away an Indian mound that stood here. A brick warehouse was built in its place. From 1863 - 1865 the Confederate government used this warehouse to hold captured Federal Soldiers. You are standing on a pile of b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYB_site-of-alabamas-statehouse_Orrville-AL.html
This structure collapsed in 1833 and its fallen remains were reportedly heaped into a railroad embankment. Consequently, we have no picture of the Statehouse that was drawn by someone who actually saw the building. Any modern picture you see of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY8_cahaba-first-state-capital_Orrville-AL.html
This stone marks the site of Cahaba, selected November 21, 1818 as the first permanent capital of Alabama. The seat of goverment remaining here until removed to Tuscaloosa by the Legislature, January 1825.
On December 13, 1819, it was fixed as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEW7_rickwood-field_Birmingham-AL.html
Built by local industrialist A. H. "Rick" Woodward, this park opened on August 18, 1910. It is the oldest surviving baseball park in America. Rickwood served as the home park for both the Birmingham Barons (until 1987) and the Birmingham Black Bar…