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Title
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Alabama Places and Spaces
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Description
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Creator
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Auburn University
Keith S. Hebert
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Auburn University
University of North Alabama
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Shelby Springs Hotel & Confederate Cemetery
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Shelby Springs; Mineral Springs; Hotel; Resort; Hospital; Cemetery; Civil War
Description
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Shelby Springs Resort Hotel is believed to have been built sometime around 1839 providing accomodations to tourists coming to avail themselves of the mineral waters.
<p>In about 1856 Mr. Jasper J. Norris of Selma leased the property consisting of 2,700 acres of wooded land, including the springs, hotel and cottages. During the Civil War, the facilities were used as a training center for the young Confederate soldiers. In 1862 Shelby Springs was known as Camp Winn. Several students in the University of Alabama Cadet Corps were sent there to drill troops for the Army. In 1863, the Confederate Army as a hospital and a soldier's home used the hotel and cottages. Father Leray and the Sisters of Mercy staffed the hospital after fleeing Civil War destruction in Vicksburg, Mississippi. They brought with them by train many wounded and sick Confederate soldiers.</p>
<p>The Shelby Springs Confederate Cemetery became an extension of an existing cemetery located on a ridge overlooking the springs.</p>
Copied from the Shelby County Historical Society Quarterly magazine, dated March 2002: Shelby County Reporter, Thursday, June 10, 1976 Letter to the Editor: With very much interest I read the letter in the "Reporter" about the old cemetery located near, at that time, the old Summer Resort at Shelby Springs. Fifty years ago the Nelson Realty Co. purchased the Shelby Springs and their plans were to build a big Hotel and Club House to be named the "Yamakita Club" but somehow it never materialized. Then a man named Irby procured it and from that the present owner acquired the property, Howard Hall. Since the last two owners acquired it, there were no more good times, such as picnics et cetera at Shelby Springs. People for miles around would come there especially on the 4th of July ball games et cetera, plenty of water of which there were five kinds, three artesian springs of sulphur water. It was meeting place for all the neighbors. Gone is all that now, an iron fence surrounds the old springs "lot" as it was called, but let us get back to the cemetery, it was known as the Old Soldiers Grave Yard. I personally knew of two old civil war veterans buried there, I.C. Miller and his brother William "Bill" then their sisters Miss Nancy Miller and Mrs. Marian [Mary Ann, second wife of Felix James] Seale ... John Roche Gould, 3329 Oakhill Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35216. More about <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alshelby/ShelbySprings.html" target="_blank">Shelby Springs Hotel</a> More about <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alshelby/cemSSConfederate.html" target="_blank">Shelby Springs Confederate Cemetery</a> <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2187952" target="_blank">Findagrave.com listings for Shelby Springs Confederate Cemetery</a>
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Liz Clayton, Shelby County Historical Society
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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Text
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English
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Text
Cemetery
Civil War
Hospital
Hotel
Mineral Springs
Resort
Shelby Springs
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Title
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The Chapel
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<a href="http://wp.auburn.edu/auburnmagazine/haunted-1030-p-m/" target="_blank">Auburn Magazine</a>
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Alabama Places and Spaces
Subject
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Description
An account of the resource
Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Creator
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Auburn University
Keith S. Hebert
Contributor
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Auburn University
University of North Alabama
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Title
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The Chapel
Subject
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Lee County, AL; Civil War; Auburn, AL; Religion; Langdon Hall; Auburn Presbyterian Church; Slavery; Reese, Edwin; Old Main Hall
Description
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Founded as the Auburn Presbyterian Church in 1851, “the Chapel” was built by local slaves belonging to one of Auburn’s first residents, Edwin Reese. Like Langdon Hall and Old Main Hall, it served as a makeshift hospital from July 1864 through the end of the Civil War. It is currently the oldest building in Auburn still standing on its original site and the second oldest building overall. It is still in use today as a multi-faith chapel.
Creator
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Joshua Shiver
Publisher
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
Date
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2014-12-4
Contributor
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Joshua Shiver
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<a href="http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/nrhp/text/73000351.pdf" target="_blank">Floyd D. Warner, Auburn Players Theater: National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form</a>
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JPEG and Text
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English
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Still Image and Text
Auburn
Auburn University Chapel
Civil War
Hospital
Texas Hospital