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Social and Cultural Opportunities Marker
Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: October 13, 2009
Caption: Social and Cultural Opportunities Marker
Additional Description: (top) The Cotaco Opera House Company was incorporated September 16, 1889 to build one of the first opera houses in the state of Alabama. Shown here later as the Payne Theatre, it still stands on Johnston Street. (bottom) In 1904, as a means of attracting and keeping workers happy, the L&N built a YMCA on the southeast corner of Second Avenue and Gordon Drive at an estimated cost of $24,000.
Submitted: March 18, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p196959
File Size: 0.313 Megabytes

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