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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EX3_scott-yarbrough-house_Auburn-AL.html
(Side 1)Colonel Nathaniel J. Scott, from Harris County Georgia, built this house, which he called Pebble Hill, on 100 acres in 1847. With its pyramidal roof and symmetrical lines, the frame house reflects the Greek Revival architecture popular in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EX2_dillard-lawson-house_Auburn-AL.html
Built by Auburn merchant A.L. Dillard in 1894, the home was once part of the old Scott Plantation. It was one of the first homes in Auburn to have an indoor bath and electricity. An unusual feature of the house is the gray stone, for which Dillard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EX0_the-baughman-honour-stiles-house_Auburn-AL.html
Designed by William Dryden Baughman and built by Fred Burk in 1929, the house was not finished due to the Great Depression. Because of its two-story turret and French Norman Style, it became known as "The Castle." In 1949, the home was sold to arc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EWZ_auburn-united-methodist-church-founders-chapel_Auburn-AL.html
In 1836 Judge John Harper with 34 other Methodists from Harris County, Georgia settled here. They built a log structure on this site, the first church and school in Auburn. In 1856 church leaders inspired the Methodist Conference to open East Alab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EWX_robert-wilton-burton_Auburn-AL.html
(Side 1)Near this site once stood "Four-Story Cottage," the home of Robert Wilton Burton. A one-story house with wide porch and bay window, Burton built it in 1885 with proceeds from the sale of four stories to children's magazines. Born in Camden…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EWT_cary-hall_Auburn-AL.html
(Side 1)Dr. Charles Cary, a native of Iowa and graduate of Iowa State in 1887, came to Auburn in 1892 and taught the first class of veterinary medicine at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He has been called the Father of Veterinary Medicine in the S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EWN_founders-oak_Auburn-AL.html
This post oak started growth in 1850 and was 6 years old when East Alabama Male College was established. It was 33 years old when the Alabama Agricultural Station was established, 91 when the nation entered World War II, and over 100 when this sit…