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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRU_george-downer-field_Aliceville-AL.html
Named in honor of George Noonan Downer, Sr. who rendered exemplary community service for more than 50 years. Gov. John Patterson was dedicatory speaker on Nov. 7, 1961. Mr. Downer was born at Cooksville, Miss., July 31, 1888. Served 30 years as Pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRT_pleasant-ridge-presbyterian-church_Aliceville-AL.html
By appointment of Tuscaloosa Presbytery, November 18, 1848 Rev. J. L. Kirkpatrick and Rev. C. A. Stillman organized a Presbyterian Church at Pleasant Ridge, Alabama. There were thirteen charter members. Services were held in a home near site o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRF_aliceville-prisoner-of-war-camp_Aliceville-AL.html
During World War II, the United States Army interned 6,000 German prisoners of war here on a 400 acre site, employing 1,000 American military and civilian personnel. Major Karl H. Shriver commanded Corps of Engineers forces which began constructio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRE_alabama-tennessee-northern-railroad-depot_Aliceville-AL.html
The Carrollton Short Line Railroad, authorized by the legislature in 1897, connected the Mobile & Ohio Railroad at Reform with the Pickens County seat. John Taylor Cochrane of Tuscaloosa, working with Carrollton citizens, completed that line in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRD_r-j-kirksey-high-school_Aliceville-AL.html
Summerville Industrial High School, the first high school for African Americans in the southern part of Pickens County, was moved to this site in 1958, becoming Robert Jackson Kirksey High School. The new name honored a long-term member of the sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP3H_aliceville-first-baptist-church_Aliceville-AL.html
Aliceville First Baptist was founded in 1823 as the Enon Baptist Church. The original church site was located in the Garden Community west of Aliceville. In 1904, the membership made the decision to move their congregation to the newly established…
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On a wooded spot near where Garden Cemetery is located stood Enon Baptist Church, constituted in August 1823, by Lemuel Prewitt and Henry Petty on land donated by Parks E. Ball.Sometime after 1849 the meeting place was moved about one mile west on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP3E_in-memory-of-james-mccrory_Aliceville-AL.html
who departed this lifeNovember 24th 1840 Aged 82 years, 6 monthsand 9 days. The deceased was a soldierof the Revolution and was atThe battles of Germantown,Brandywine and GuilfordCourt house, and was one ofWashington's life guards atValley Forge a…
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