In April 1886, railroad prospectors were traveling up the Butahatchie Valley in Lamar County, Alabama, Moscow beat, and securing right of way for a railroad to be built that would connect Birmingham, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee. In November . . . — — Map (db m96472) HM
Farmer Confederate Soldier Legislator
Member U.S. House and Senate
Thirty Three Years
Father of Federal Aid to Good Roads
Author making Warrior
longest canalized river in the world
Active in
development of Muscle Shoals and other . . . — — Map (db m96473) HM
Built in 1888, this was the first house constructed within the original city limits of Sulligent after incorporation. It was the family home of William W. and Tallulah Henson Ogden. One of the founders and chief promoters of Sulligent. Mr. Ogden was . . . — — Map (db m96471) HM
Just 150 yards to the south was located the old
Hale and Murdock Furnace the only ironworks
in Alabama to escape Union attack during the
Civil War.
Built in 1859 by Harrison Hale and Abraham
Murdock, manufacturers and merchants from
Columbus, . . . — — Map (db m302618) HM
In memory of Lamar County's honored dead
Korea
Bowen, Elzie Ray
Hays, Robert A.
Mixon, Herman L.
Pickens, Freddie F.
Reed, Cecil
Rushing, Larry W.
In memory of Lamar County's honored dead . . . — — Map (db m96851) WM
In 1928, the county constructed a two-room schoolhouse with Ms. Ruby C.
Todd, a Jeanes Supervisor of Negro Schools, serving as teacher. The school
provided a 7th through 12th grade education for Black students. In 1935,
the school added five new . . . — — Map (db m302617) HM
Side 1
In Memory of Lamar County's Honored Dead
World War One and Two
Allen, Othar J. Conner, Herbert C.
Atkins, A. Lincoln Conner, James Box
Avers, Cicero Cox, William Lloyd
Baughn, Claudie Cowart, Milo K. . . . — — Map (db m96852) WM
