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Auburn Train Station
In February 1861, president-elect Jefferson Davis rode a train from his plantation in Mississippi to Atlanta and then to Montgomery, Alabama for his inauguration as president of the Confederacy. On February 16, at the Auburn train depot,…
Auburn Public School
In 1899, Auburn Mayor Charles Little and the town council appropriated bonds of $6,000 to build a large public schoolhouse. The 74x58 ½ foot building included a 40x70 foot auditorium on the top floor. Amenities included wood and coal pot-bellied…
Auburn Post Office (City Hall)
The land on which this building is situated was owned by Judge John Harper, the founder of Auburn. In 1846, Harper deeded the land to Auburn Academy agent Simeon Porter for the purpose of building Auburn's first schools. The site served as the home…
Auburn Methodist and Baptist Schools
Judge John Harper led a party of Methodists to the future site of Auburn, Alabama in late 1836. The next year, members the new community collaborated to erect a log Methodist church, located on the corner of modern-day East Magnolia Street and South…
Auburn Masonic Female College
In the early 1850s, Colonel Nathaniel Scott petitioned Auburn’s local Masonic lodge (Auburn Lodge #76) to sponsor a female educational center in town. In 1853, Auburn Masonic Female College became the town’s first women’s educational…
Auburn Junior High School
From 1931 to 1966, Auburn’s white middle (and elementary) school students operated under the aegis of Auburn High School at 332 East Samford Avenue. During this period, the sub-institution was known as Auburn Grammar School. When Auburn High School…
Auburn High School
In 1931, the institution that would come to be known as Auburn High School opened on Samford Avenue at the site of present-day Samford Middle School. From 1931 to 1959, the institution was known as Lee County High School. Until 1966, the entire…
Auburn Female Institute
Auburn’s first post-Civil War public school, possibly founded as early as 1870, was actually a women’s school. Auburn Female Institute was located on Tichenor Avenue. Under Principal George W. Duncan, Auburn Female Institute offered instruction…
Auburn Depot
The Auburn Train Depot was built in 1904, based on a Victorian railroad design by Auburn University architecture student Ralph Dudley. Two previous stations serving the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, located on the same site, had been destroyed…
Athens-Limestone Public Library
The Athens-Limestone Public Library solved two problems very creatively with their 2014 move to the old Kroger building at 603 South Jefferson Street. The old library (located near Julia Newman School) was approximately 10,000 square feet and the new…
Athens Presbyterian Church
Athens First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1829. After meeting an interdenominational building, the church was built on Washington Street.
The building was badly damaged during the Civil War and the Presbyterians met at the First Baptist…
The building was badly damaged during the Civil War and the Presbyterians met at the First Baptist…
Athens Intermediate School
Based on the findings of a committee appointed in 1995, a recommendation was made to build a new intermediate school for the fifth and sixth grades. In August 2002 a transition was made for all fifth and sixth graders to begin their classes in the…
Arts Alive Festival
Since 1986, the city of Florence has hosted an annual two day festival dedicated to highlighting the local area’s rich art culture known as Arts Alive. Each year, the event has is organized through the hard work and efforts of a volunteer…
Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2417
Arkal Automotive USA
This manufacturing company produces automotive components. It is the first US based manufacturing operation for the Israeli owned Arkal company. This business opened in 2012 and still operates today. The Auburn branch of Akral is located at 2490…
Appleby Jr. High School
National Register of Historic Places - F.T. Appleby Junior High School – originally Coffee High School – 319 Hermitage Drive Florence, AL
Nomination still listed with the state and on the NPS data base –building destroyed in the 1980s. Now…
Nomination still listed with the state and on the NPS data base –building destroyed in the 1980s. Now…
Antioch Methodist Church
This early Lee County Methodist church was built in 1837.
Annual Historical Fair: Syrup Sopping Saturdays
Annual festival celebrating local food, music, and crafts.
http://www.leecountyhistoricalsociety.org/fair/index.html
http://www.leecountyhistoricalsociety.org/fair/index.html
Anna Rosenbaum
Anna Block Rosenbaum, a native of Lithuania, was born on April 8, 1889, and was brought to the United States at the age of six months.
She married Louis Rosenbaum in 1910 and they had one son, Stanley. After living in Denver, Colorado, Casper,…
She married Louis Rosenbaum in 1910 and they had one son, Stanley. After living in Denver, Colorado, Casper,…
Andrew Freear
Andrew Freear, the Wiatt Professor of Architecture at Auburn University, became the Director of the Rural Arts Studio in Newbern, West Alabama in 2002.
Freear, who is from Yorkshire, England, was educated at the Polytechnic of Central London and…
Freear, who is from Yorkshire, England, was educated at the Polytechnic of Central London and…
American House, 1840 (Stone-Young-Baggett House)
This image is a watercolor painting of an American house located on the Stone-Young Plantation (also known as the Stone-Young-Baggett House) in Montgomery, Alabama done by Brendon A. Bond sometime between 1940 and 1942. The mansion was built in…
Amen Trail
There are a total of nineteen churches that make up the Amen Trail in Morgan County. This trail allows you to visit churches that are over 100 years old and still maintain active faith communities.
http://decaturcvb.org/item/walking-tours-trails
http://decaturcvb.org/item/walking-tours-trails
Alvin Rosenbaum
Alvin Rosenbaum, who was born on January 14, 1945, has worked as a research scholar, conducted tourism and opportunity studies and workshops, and is the author of several books, including: A White House Christmas, The Complete Home Office:Planning…
Alumni Gymnasium
Irritated by the state’s flat refusal to fund a gymnasium for Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tom Bragg, the president of the Auburn Alumni Association, solicited funds from Auburn graduates all over the country. In February 1916,…