On land donated by Ed Crosby, a group of African American community leaders had a well dug in January 1955 to provide the people of Gordonville with running water. The Well, the first black-owned water system in Alabama. Initially had just four . . . — — Map (db m207412) HM
The church, founded in 1893, played important
roles in the 1960s voting rights struggle in
Lowndes County. The second building constructed
in c. 1959 hosted community meetings and voter
registration activities. The Lowndes County
Freedom . . . — — Map (db m285535) HM
Founded in 1820 by settlers from the Edgefield, Abbeville, and Colleton Districts of South Carolina on property purchased from the U.S. Land Office at Cahaba. Officially named Hayneville in 1831 to honor South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne. . . . — — Map (db m68004) HM
Johnathan Daniels was murdered near
this spot, then Cash's Store, on
August 20, 1965.
He gave his life in the fight for
integration of the churches
and universal voter registration.
At the time, he
was a divinity student at
The . . . — — Map (db m147604) HM
Lynching in America
Between the end of the Civil War and the close of World War II,
white mobs killed thousands of Black Americans in racial terror
lynchings, and committed widespread violence that traumatized
millions more. The Lowndes . . . — — Map (db m235867) HM
(front)
1861-1865
The Soldier Dead
of Lowndes
(left side)
No men died there
with more glory.
Yet many died,
And there was much glory.
(right side)
To
Devotion and Valor. . . . — — Map (db m68342) WM
In the 1820s, Hayneville was known as "Big Swamp." In 1830, after being chosen as the county seat of Lowndes County, it was named Hayneville for Robert Y. Hayne, governor of South Carolina and a U.S. senator. The incorporation of Hayneville as a . . . — — Map (db m305560) HM
On August 20, 1965, Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a 26-year-old
Episcopal seminarian from Keene, New Hampshire, was shot dead
at point blank range here. He was a graduate of Virginia Military
Institute and was attending Episcopal Theological School, . . . — — Map (db m147601) HM
Lowndesboro, ALEnraged 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
Reverend Mansfield Tyler (1826-1904), who was born enslaved near Augusta,
Georgia, organized First Missionary Baptist Church of Lowndesboro in the
late 1860s. He led 137 Black and five White members of Lowndesboro Baptist
Church to establish . . . — — Map (db m304065) 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 1830s. 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
Lynching in America
Thousands of black people were the victims of lynching and racial violence in the United States between 1877 and 1950. The lynching of African Americans during this era was a form of racial terrorism intended to . . . — — Map (db m97983) HM
Enslavement & Racial Terror
The enslavement of black people in the United States was a brutal,
dehumanizing system that lasted more than 200 years. Between 1819
and 1860, Alabama's enslaved population grew from 40,000 to 435,000.
According . . . — — Map (db m154554) HM
Threatened by the potential four-to-one advantage of the black vote, whites retaliated by ousting black families from white-owned lands. The African American families who lived here paid dearly to earn their right to vote. Crowded into canvas tents . . . — — Map (db m112400) HM
Since the federal registrars came in August of 1965, thousands and thousands of Negroes have registered to vote. White plantation owners have retaliated by mass evictions. In December 1965, over forty families either left the county, moved in . . . — — Map (db m112405) HM
Monday, March 22, 1965, on the second day of the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, protesters passed this site in late afternoon. At that time the four-lane highway in front of you was only two lanes, and for safety reasons the number of . . . — — Map (db m112375) HM
Six miles North, on December 23, 1813,
General F.L. Claiborne's army defeated
the Creeks and destroyed the Holy
Ground Indian Village. One American
was killed and 33 Creeks. William
"Red Eagle" Weatherford escaped by
leaping on horseback into . . . — — Map (db m60714) HM
One of the significant battles of the Creek War of 1813-14 occurred near here on December 23, 1813. The 3rd Regiment, U.S. Infantry forces under the command of General F. L. Claiborne attacked a band of Creek Indians. Called "Holy Ground" by Creeks . . . — — Map (db m116890) HM
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. . . . — — Map (db m112403) HM
While helicopters buzzed overhead, National Guard soldiersordered by President Lyndon Johnson to protect the marcherslined U.S. Highway 80, alert to the potential of violence by angry whites. Marchers walked mile after tired mile, while black . . . — — Map (db m112384) HM
The roots of this house of worship date to 1868 when 26 African American members of Mount Gilead Church left to form their own congregation. The present building was constructed in 1901, with several enlargements and renovations throughout the . . . — — Map (db m104068) HM
For African Americans in the 1960s, being kicked off white-owned lands for trying to register to vote no isolated incident. Just as had happened here in Lowndes County, blacks in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Greene County, Alabama, were driven from . . . — — Map (db m112389) HM
In December 1965, a city of tents appeared on this site. The temporary shelters were homes for evicted black sharecropper families. These farmers worked and lived their lives on white-owned farms in Lowndes County. But when they dared to register to . . . — — Map (db m112371) HM
