Crenshaw County was established from five existing counties in 1866. The first courthouse and county seat were originally in Rutledge. The county seat moved to its present location after the 1893 election. The first courthouse at this location . . . — — Map (db m183474) HM
In 1904, Alabama industrialist Frazier Michel
Douglass, Sr. hired a carpenter from Alexander
City, Alabama to build the Douglass House. The
house is a two-story Queen Anne Victorian and
might be the only home of this architectural type
in . . . — — Map (db m163677) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m172462) HM
In the late 1800s, Benjamin R. Bricken,
Crenshaw County's first attorney-at-law, built
the Bricken Building, a landmark in the field
of law in this county. Between 1893 and 1933,
the Bricken Law Firm occupied the building
Then, Ben H. Lightfoot . . . — — Map (db m163730) HM
