Roosevelt’s Barnesville Speech

On August 11, 1938, as many as 50,000 people gathered in the stadium of Gordon Military College for an address by President Franklin Roosevelt dedicating the Lamar Electric Cooperative, a project of the New Deal's Rural Electrification Administration (REA). As ...

Bluff Hall

Situated on historic White Bluff

overlooking the Tombigbee River,

Bluff Hall was built in 1832 by

slaves of Allen Glover for his

daughter, Sarah Serena, and her

husband, Francis Strother Lyon.

Lawyer and planter, F. S. Lyon, served in both the

Confederate and the United States congresses.

Frequent ...

Lamar Electric Membership Corporation Incorporating Board of Dir

REA Project 75 was chartered in February 1937 and was energized August 11, 1938, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became Lamar Electric Membership Corporation. This day, January 23, 2005, as we change the name to Southern Rivers Energy, the ...

World War I / Between the Wars

World War IOn April 6, 1917, less than six years after Great Lakes was opened, the U.S. declared war on the Central Powers. By August, the number of trainees grew from 618 to 50,000. Vast tent cities sprang up to ...

Battle of Culloden

On April 19, 1865, a part of Wilson`s Federal Raiders, moving toward Macon, encountered the "Worrill Grays" near this spot. The "Grays," numbering less than 200 men, fought a magnificent battle, greatly outnumbered. After a two-hour battle they finally yielded ...

Alabama's Own

Front

CPL. Sidney E. Manning

World War I

Medal of Honor

One of Gen. Pershing's

Immortal Ten

This monument dedicated

to all that have served in

the Armed Forces of the

United States of America

that this glory shall not

perish from the Earth

Right Side

American Legion

Fred H. Jones - Post 167

Post ...

Bulloch Hall

Built in the early 1840's by Major James Stephen Bulloch. His second wife, married in 1832, was Martha Elliott. Their second daughter, Martha (Mittie) Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt married here in 1853. Their son Theodore Roosevelt was the 25th President ...

Ninth Massachusetts Battery

Ninth Mass. Battery

Capt. Bigelow

July 3d and 4th, 1863.

Two guns

Lieutenant Milton Comdg.

Only officer and guns

effective after engagement

on Trostle's farm, July 2nd, 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Lieut. Leonard Martin Commanding

July 2 Arrived on the afternoon with the Corps and held in reserve.

July 3 Brought up to Ziegler's Grove in rear ...

Flomaton, Alabama

Front

As railroads were reconstructed following the Civil War, a junction of north-south and east-west lines was established along the Alabama-Florida border near the confluence of Big Escambia Creek and the Conecuh-Escambia River. A settlement followed which became knows as Reuterville, ...