Dothan in Houston County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Boyhood Home of Rev. Bob Jones

Photographed by David J Gaines, April 19, 2016

1. Boyhood Home of Rev, Bob Jones Marker

Inscription. Near this spot was the boyhood home of Rev. Bob Jones, (1884-1968), D.D., L.L.D., internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University. The eleventh child of W. Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones, he was three months old when the family moved to Brannon Stand in 1884, where he lived until his father's death in 1900. Four years after his conversion at the age of eleven, Bob Jones held his first revival under a brush arbor two miles from here.

The only structure remaining today from his boyhood home is the brick water well, located on Edinburgh Way just inside the Highland Oaks Golf Course entrance.

Erected 1995 by Bob Jones University, Wheelless Development, Ltd., and the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Education • Religion & Religious Structures.

Location. 31° 14.405′ N, 85° 29.601′ W. Marker has been damaged. Marker is in Dothan, Alabama, in Houston County. It is on West Main Street (U.S. 84) west of Bocage Drive, in the median. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Dothan AL 36305, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and in the Wiregrass.

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 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 location, measured as the crow flies: Boiled Peanuts (approx. 3.2 miles away); Town of Midland City

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(approx. 5.4 miles away); Town of Taylor, Alabama (approx. 5.7 miles away); First Missionary Baptist Church (approx. 5.7 miles away); First Baptist Church (approx. 5.8 miles away); Freemasonry Veterans Memorial (approx. 6 miles away); Houston County Veterans Memorial (approx. 6 miles away); Houston County (approx. 6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Dothan.

Photographed by David J Gaines, April 19, 2016

2. Boyhood Home of Rev, Bob Jones Marker

Marker was found on ground and temporarily propped against the pole. image. Click for full size.

Photographed by James L.Whitman, January 30, 2022

3. Marker was found on ground and temporarily propped against the pole.

Credits. This page was last revised on January 31, 2022. It was originally submitted on June 21, 2016, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. This page has been viewed 1,972 times since then and 89 times this year. Last updated on January 30, 2022, by James L.Whitman of Eufaula, Alabama. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 21, 2016, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. 3. submitted on January 30, 2022, by James L.Whitman of Eufaula, Alabama. • Mark Hilton was the editor who published this page.