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Old Main
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<a href="http://diglib.auburn.edu/auburnhistory/oldsouth.htm" target="_blank">Auburn University Digital Library</a>
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Old Main
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Alabama Places and Spaces
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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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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Old Main Hall
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Education; Lee County, AL; Auburn University; East Alabama Male College; Button, Stephen Decatur; Civil War; General Lovell Rousseau; Morrill Act; Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College; Old Main Hall; William J. Samford Hall
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After the state awarded East Alabama Male College its charter on February 7, 1856, the Board of Trustees set about securing funds to build an administrative and educational building. The trustees initially allocated $25,000 for the facility, but the building that came to be known as Old Main Hall required an expenditure of approximately $60,000 to complete. Stephen Decatur Button, a nationally prominent architect, designed and built the four-story Italianate-style academic building.
Old Main Hall was the primary building of the East Alabama Male College from 1856 until 1887. During the Civil War, EAMC suspended operations like so many of the country’s other academic institutions. As faculty, staff, and students left school to join the Confederate war effort, the EAMC shuttered its doors from 1861 to 1864 when Old Main Hall, Langdon Hall, and the Chapel were converted into makeshift hospitals for wounded soldiers arriving from Atlanta. In 1864, Texas’s state legislature paid to convert Old Main Hall into a convalescent hospital that they dubbed Texas Hospital. The ramshackle hospital housed over four hundred Confederate soldiers, many of whom never saw their homes again and were buried in nearby Pine Hill Cemetery.
Old Main also acted as a parade ground where soldiers from nearby Camp Beauregard and Camp Johnson marched and drilled during the war. In July 1864, Major General Lovell H. Rousseau and his force of approximately 2,500 Union cavalrymen raided the cities of Auburn and Opelika where they destroyed thirty-five miles of railroad tracks, the local post office, and Pebble Hill. In an effort to defend the city, sixteen-year old John Hodges Drake and approximately thirty or forty convalescents from the Texas Hospital offered some token resistance to Rousseau's raid, to little avail. The Federal cavalrymen left the bedridden and newly minted prisoners alone and did little damage to civilian property.
In fall 1866, students returned to attend classes in a building ravaged by the elements and war. In the early morning of June 24, 1887, a fire broke out in Old Main Hall’s lower basement chemistry lab. The ensuing conflagration consumed the entire building. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, the students met for classes in the Chapel. In 1888, the school erected a new administration building, William J. Samford Hall, on Old Main Hall’s original foundation. Old Main Hall’s cornerstone is still visible at the base of the northeast corner of Samford Hall. Old Main Hall’s building originally occupied the space that is now 182 South College Street, Auburn University.
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Taylor McGaughy, Joshua Shiver
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Image Source: http://www.auburn.edu/communications_marketing/150/lecture.html
Text Source: Ralph Draughon, Jr., Delos Hughes, and Ann Pearson, Lost Auburn: A Village Remembered in Period Photographs (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2012), 9-11.
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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2014-11-21
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Taylor McGaughy, Joshua Shiver
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English
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Auburn
Camp Beauregard
Camp Johnson
Civil War
Old Main
Rousseau's Raid
Texas Hospital
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Confederate Monument at Pine Hill Cemetary
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<a href="http://diglib.auburn.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0loguesms--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=loguesms&cl=CL1.2&d=HASH740daf48b4a29c4d0c033b" target="_blank">Auburn University Digital Library</a>
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Alabama Places and Spaces
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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An account of the resource
Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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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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Pine Hill Cemetery
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Lee County, AL; Civil War; Cemeteries
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Pine Hill Cemetery has over 1,100 graves and contains a mass grave of at least ninety-eight unidentifiable Confederate soldiers who died in the makeshift hospitals in Auburn. In 1893, the Ladies Memorial Association erected a monument over the spot believed to be the site of the mass Confederate grave. An additional seventy-one Union and Confederate soldiers are buried in marked graves through the cemetery.
The cemetery is located in Auburn at Armstrong Street and Hare Street.
Coordinates: 32.6006903, -85.4777268
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Heather Scheurer, Joshua Shiver
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http://alabama.hometownlocator.com
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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2014-12-4
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Heather Scheurer, Joshua Shiver
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<a href="http://www.auburnheritageassoc.org/historic-markers.html#pinehill" target="_blank">Auburn Heritage Association: Historic Markers</a>
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Auburn
Civil War
Pine Hill Cemetary
Texas
Texas Hospital
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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
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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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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The Chapel
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Lee County, AL; Civil War; Auburn, AL; Religion; Langdon Hall; Auburn Presbyterian Church; Slavery; Reese, Edwin; Old Main Hall
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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.
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Joshua Shiver
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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2014-12-4
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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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Auburn
Auburn University Chapel
Civil War
Hospital
Texas Hospital
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Farmers Week 1929
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<a href="http://diglib.auburn.edu/auburnhistory/roaring20s.htm" target="_blank">Auburn University Digital Library</a>
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Langdon Hall 1893
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<a href="http://www.eng.auburn.edu/about/history/post-civil-war-1889.html" target="_blank">Auburn College of Engineering</a>
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Langdon Hall 1892
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This is how Langdon Hall looked before it was moved to campus and the exterior bricked and the steeple removed.
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon_Hall" target="_blank">Langdon Hall Wikipedia</a>
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Community and Culture
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Langdon Hall
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Lee County, AL; Civil War; Auburn Masonic Female College; Langdon Hall; Auburn, AL; Civil War; Secession; Yancey, William Lowndes; Stephens, Alexander; Toombs, Robert; Brownlow, William G. "Parson"; Union Army; Langdon Hall; The Chapel; Old Main Hall; Pine Hill Cemetery; Auburn University; Langdon, Charles
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Originally built as the Auburn Masonic Female College chapel in 1846, the building that became known as Langdon Hall stood on the corner of Gay and Magnolia Street near the current site of Auburn Bank. As the oldest building in Auburn, it served as the political nerve center of eastern Alabama for most of the 19th century. Boasting the largest auditorium in eastern Alabama, it was the scene of countless lectures and political debates leading up to the American Civil War. In 1860, it was the site of a major debate on secession between future Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens, future Confederate Secretary of State Robert Toombs, anti-secessionist William G. "Parson" Brownlow, and fiery orator and politician William Lowndes Yancey.
In July 1864, as Major General William T. Sherman's army bore down upon Atlanta, soldiers wounded in its defense were evacuated to surrounding communities. A contingent of soldiers from Texas were moved to the city of Auburn and housed in Langdon Hall, the Chapel, and Old Main Hall, which were converted into makeshift hospitals. After the war, Auburn's annual Confederate Memorial Day celebration typically began at Langdon Hall before eventually terminating at Pine Hill Cemetery. In 1883, it was moved from its original location to its present spot on Auburn University's campus where it has been used as classroom space ever since. Just six years later, it was renamed Langdon Hall after prominent Alabama politician, war veteran, and Auburn trustee Charles Langdon.
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Joshua Shiver
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Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
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2014-12-4
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Joshua Shiver
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Auburn University Libraries: <a href="http://www.lib.auburn.edu/arch/buildings/langdon_hall.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Langdon Hall</a>
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Auburn Masonic Female College
Auburn University
Charles Langdon
Civil War
Langdon Hall
Lee County
Texas Hospital