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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20PC_the-auburn-guards_Auburn-AL.html
On this spot February 16th 1861
The Auburn Guards
the first company to be thus honored
were reviewed by
Jefferson Davis
enroute to his inauguration as
President of the Confederacy
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1URF_the-crescent-historical_Auburn-AL.html
Front
The Crescent was an exclusive train of Southern Railway (SR) and Alabama affiliates, Western Railway of Alabama (WRA), Atlanta & West Point Railway (AWPR), and Louisville & Nashville Railway (LNR). Excepting SR, these lines provided pas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LC5_the-bottle_Auburn-AL.html
Built in 1924 and billed as the "the world's largest bottle", The Bottle (also know as the "Twist Inn") was built by John F. Williams, owner of the Nehi Bottling Company in Opelika, Alabama. A wooden replica of a bright orange Nehi soda bottle, it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IJT_auburn-1865-present-the-loveliest-village_Auburn-AL.html
Side 1
Auburn
1865~Present
Only one house was built in the village in the decade after the Civil War, and though the state took over the bankrupt college in 1872, the institution received no state appropriation until 1883. Nevertheless, in 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IJS_city-hall_Auburn-AL.html
Side 1
In 1846, Auburn's founder, Judge John J. Harper deeded the property on this corner to Simeon Perry, as town agent for two of the earliest public schools in Auburn. A member of the settlement party, Perry laid out the original boundaries of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXS_pine-hill-cemetery_Auburn-AL.html
(Side 1)Pine Hill was established in 1837 and is the oldest cemetery in Auburn. Judge John J. Harper, Auburn's founder, donated almost six acres to the new town to be used as a community burying ground for white settlers and their slaves. The orig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXD_coast-salish-totem-poles_Auburn-BC.html
Eagle with Salmon, Orca, Bear with SalmonThis Totem Pole, carve in Contemporary Coast Salish style by master carver Doug LaFortune of the Tsawout First Nation, was dedicated on September 9th, 2004 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of The But…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXC_the-auburn-guards-reviewed-by-jefferson-davis_Auburn-AL.html
At the Auburn train depot on February 16, 1861, Jefferson Davis reviewed the Auburn Guards, the first Confederate military company thus honored. Davis was en route to his inauguration as President of the Confederacy. The Auburn Guards were compris…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXA_baptist-hill_Auburn-AL.html
(Side 1)Auburn's first separate black community cemetery offers a rich source of the city's black heritage. Much of the history is oral but it is known that a white man gave most of the land in the early 1870's. The four acre cemetery contains ove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EX7_ebenezer-baptist-church_Auburn-AL.html
(Side 1)This simple frame structure was built by newly freed black men and women before 1870. The property on which the building stands was given to a member of the Ebenezer congregation in 1865, the year the War Between the States ended, by a whi…