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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24I1_behind-the-big-house_Orrville-AL.html
Two story brick slave quarters like the
one before you were not typical, but they
could be found in wealthy towns like
Cahawba.
Stephen Barker built these quarters in
1860 on the northern edge of town.
As you can see in the photograp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24I0_the-duke-of-cahaba_Orrville-AL.html
Look around you. There are hundreds
of pecan trees growing nearby. All were
planted by Clifton Kirkpatrick, a.k.a.
The Duke of Cahaba." (Note: Cahawba
lost its "w" by the late 19th century.)
In 1889 Samuel and Sarah Kirkpatrick
move…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24HJ_cahawba-circa-1500_Orrville-AL.html
Two Ghost Towns?
Long before Cahawba was built as
Alabama's first state capital, there was
another village at this location. Just like
Cahawba, it thrived for about 50 years,
then disappeared.
About the year 1500 a group of Native
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24HH_who-lived-here_Orrville-AL.html
This house, the Fambro / Arthur home,
takes its name from two of its owners.
One was a judge, the other was a former
slave.
The Fambro Family
A. Judge W. W. Fambro built this house
in the early 1840s. He may have created
his home…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FF_memorials-for-prisoners-of-war_Orrville-AL.html
These are not graves.
These are markers to memoralize
the Federal soldiers who died in the
Cahawba Military Prison during the
Civil War. The men within the prison
called it "Castle Morgan."
No one knows where in Cahawba these
men we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24FE_methodist-church_Orrville-AL.html
These ruins were once a place of worship for members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Built in 1849, it was the first single denomination church in Cahawba. An earlier church for the common use of all denominations was erected about 1840. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EO_turning-point_Selma-AL.html
By early 1964, the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) efforts to organize for voting rights had reached a turning point. In July 1964 Judge James Hare, pressured by Selma law enforcement to qu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EN_a-grassroots-movement_Selma-AL.html
For centuries, Selma was a city where the rules of race
were enforced by humiliation and fear. But Selma gave
birth to one of the greatest grassroots campaigns in
history—the voting rights movement. The Selma to
Montgomery march was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EM_sanctuary-to-stage_Selma-AL.html
The shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson in nearby Marion, Alabama, transformed Brown Chapel from a sanctuary into a staging area for the Selma march, In a passionate sermon SCLC worker James Bevel suggested making a pilgrimage to the State Capitol to h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EL_george-washington-carver-neighborhood_Selma-AL.html
The George Washington Carver neighborhood served as base camp for the votings rights movement during the tumultuous weeks of March 1965. These blocks of brick two-story homes—the city's first and largest federal housing project for blacks, b…