Luverne in Crenshaw County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Luverne Historic District

Crenshaw County

Photographed by Susan Van Den Bosch, April 29, 2021

1. Luverne Historic District

Inscription. The historic properties within the Luverne Historic District represent seventy years of history from the 1880s to the late 1940s. This district includes the first commercial businesses in downtown and middle to upper middle-class homes. These resources reflect the developments in Luverne as a railway hub in the southern sector of the state, its residential growth, and the effects that the Great Depression had on small towns in Alabama. The Luverne Historic District displays the relationship between society and commerce as houses are in close proximity to commercial and historically industrial areas of Luverne.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places January 14, 2005

Erected 2019 by Alabama Historical Commisssion.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers. A significant historical date for this entry is January 14, 2005.

Location. 31° 42.727′ N, 86° 15.819′ W. Marker is in Luverne, Alabama, in Crenshaw County. It is on U.S. 331 north of 9th Street, on the right when traveling north. Located at Douglas Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office

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area: Luverne AL 36049, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and in the Black Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Douglass House (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); St. John Missionary Baptist Church (approx. ¼ mile away); The Bricken Building (approx. ¼ mile away); Crenshaw County Courthouse (approx. 0.3 miles away); Crenshaw County Training School (approx. 0.6 miles away); Rutledge Primitive Baptist Church (approx. 2½ miles away); Rutledge (approx. 3 miles away); New Providence Primitive Baptist Church Site (approx. 5.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Luverne.

Luverne Historic District Marker looking north on US-331. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, September 7, 2025

2. Luverne Historic District Marker looking north on US-331.

Luverne Historic District Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Hilton, September 7, 2025

3. Luverne Historic District Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on September 7, 2025. It was originally submitted on May 3, 2021, by Susan Van Den Bosch of Almond, Wisconsin. This page has been viewed 822 times since then and 58 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on May 3, 2021, by Susan Van Den Bosch of Almond, Wisconsin. 2, 3. submitted on September 7, 2025, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama. • Mark Hilton was the editor who published this page.