On Tarrant Huffman Road at Marshall Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Tarrant Huffman Road.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church began burying here in the mid-1800s. On June 2, 1970, New Grace Hill Cemetery, Inc., a subsidiary of the Booker T. Washington Insurance Company in Birmingham, purchased this cemetery and officially named it Zion Memorial . . . — — Map (db m35602) HM
On South Main Street (U.S. 43) at East 8th Avenue, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street.
The Alabama Territorial Legislature established Marengo County in 1818. The “Town of Marengo” was then surveyed near the center of the county to serve as county seat. In 1824 lots were sold, and early French immigrants named the town Hohenlinden . . . — — Map (db m72971) HM
On Franklin Street at Old Greensboro Road, on the left when traveling east on Franklin Street.
May 1844 - Episcopalians in Uniontown and Marengo County united to form Union Parish. The parish was admitted to the Diocese of Alabama on May 2, 1845. After the donation of this site in 1847, ladies of the congregation diligently worked to raise . . . — — Map (db m70065) HM
On Coats Avenue east of Martin Luther King Jr Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Edd Shields was born into slavery on June 15, 1853, on the Steele plantation in Wilcox County. At age 4, his owner brought him to Marengo County where he remained enslaved until age 12. From 1867-1873, he worked as a farmer, and was educated by . . . — — Map (db m306130) HM
On North Walnut Avenue at East Capitol Street, on the right when traveling north on North Walnut Avenue.
Robertson Banking Company
Founded 1870
In 1870, Daniel Fowler Prout established the first bank in Demopolis
since the Civil War Maj. John Royal Robertson soon joined the venture.
In 1872, a one-story brick headquarters for Prout and . . . — — Map (db m286973) HM
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