Lowndesboro, AL—Enraged whites, jealous over the business success of a Negro are believed to be the lynchers of Elmore Bolling. Bolling, 39, was found riddled with shot gun and pistol shots 150 yards from his general merchandise store. It is . . . — — Map (db m184279) HM
The Lowndesboro School is among the oldest surviving Reconstruction-era
African American schoolhouses in the United States. It was founded in 1867
by Dr. Mansfield Tyler, an educator, minister, and member of the Alabama
House of . . . — — Map (db m245992) HM
Frances Lewis II (1768-1837), a planter, was the first soul to
be interred in this family cemetery. Lewis was born a British
subject in the Colony of Virginia and migrated to Alabama in
the 1820s. The fathers of both Frances Lewis II and his . . . — — Map (db m245991) HM
Settled before 1820 by planters from South Carolina and Virigina. First called McGill's Hill, it was incorporated, 1832, as Lowndesboro in honor of William Lowndes. There was a brief skirmish here between Forrest's troops and Wilson's raiders, April . . . — — Map (db m70933) HM
Lowndesboro, Alabama
Lowndesboro developed from a small community of early settlers to a thriving township in the 1830’s. The settlers’ plantation interests were maintained in the lowlands along the Alabama River, while they built their . . . — — Map (db m70934) HM
In Honor of
Our Confederate Soldiers
1861 1865
Jno Alexander • Wm. Alexander • Wm. H. Alexander • Ed Alexander • Capt. M.F. Bonham • Maj. Bright • Capt. T.B. Brown • Alberta Caffee • Irvin Crocheron • J.P. Caffee • Jim Crocheron • Jno. . . . — — Map (db m85472) WM
Organized in 1850 as Shiloh Baptist Church on the Pritchett
Plantation, later known as the R.D. Spann Place on Highway
21, North, 3 miles north of Hayneville. Primitive later added
to the name. Building originally constructed of logs, then
a . . . — — Map (db m217245) HM
In memory of our sister Viola Liuzzo who gave her life in the struggle for the right to vote... March 25, 1965 Presented by SCLC/WOMEN Evelyn G. Lowery, National Convener - 1991 - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Joseph E. . . . — — Map (db m85461) HM
