Near County Road 100 0.3 miles east of Center Road, on the right when traveling west.
Founded in 1889 by Mathew Freeman, who was born into slavery in 1854 and died in 1930. Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery played an important role in Newtonville, Fayette County, and surrounding communities. He was a trailblazer and . . . — — Map (db m289192) 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
On Woods Prairie Cemetery Lane 0.4 miles north of State Highway 71, on the left when traveling north.
Zadock Woods (d. 1842), veteran of the War of 1812 and one of Stephen F. Austin's old three hundred colonists, brought his family to settle in this area in 1828. He built a fortified home on land deeded to his son, Montraville, and established a . . . — — Map (db m195933) HM
On County Road 12 2.2 miles east of State Highway 171, on the left when traveling west.
Freeman Lake is named for Joseph Freeman (1919-2005), a
community leader and activist who saw a need in Newtonville,
Fayette County, and surrounding communities for a place
for recreational activities in the segregated south. The
lake was a . . . — — Map (db m289191) HM
Near North Main Street (Business U.S. 27) north of Wardlaw Street East, on the right when traveling north.
Named for John Brown
Gordon, a Confederate
general, Georgia governor
and U.S. Senator, this
school stands, as a silent
monument to the citizens
whose legacies made
La Fayette a historically rich
community. Originally
named “Chattooga . . . — — Map (db m142951) HM
On West 4th Street at Poplar Street, on the right when traveling east on West 4th Street.
Dr. Clay E. Simpson, Sr., native of Notasulga, Alabama and his wife Mary E. Simpson, native of Fayette County, Kentucky, served the Owensboro community for many years. As a Family Physician, Dr. Simpson made numerous house calls and delivered . . . — — Map (db m160137) HM
Near East North Loop Road 0.2 miles west of Wurzbach Parkway.
Jefferson (Jeff) Davis Smith, son of Henry M. and Fanny (Short) Smith, was born in Kendall County, Texas. Jeff, age 9, and his brother Clint, age 11, were kidnapped by Lipan and Comanche Indians while herding sheep near their home in 1871. Jeff . . . — — Map (db m177107) HM
On Temple Avenue South at Columbus Street E, on the left when traveling north on Temple Avenue South.
In honor of the living and in loving memory of our honored dead whose principles of right as a sacred heritage we bequeath to our children through all generations - lest we forget, lest we forget
In Memory of the Soldiers of the Southern . . . — — Map (db m256522) WM
On Walnut Street (U.S. 90), on the right when traveling east.
William L. Menefee, born ca. 1796 in Knox County, Tennessee, served in the Tennessee Militia in the War of 1812. He studied law and was admitted to the bar sometime prior to 1824 when he moved to Alabama. In 1830 he and his wife Agnes (Sutherland) . . . — — Map (db m130391) HM
On Depot Street just north of Front Street, on the right when traveling north.
Town of Berry Established 1883
Thompson Berry settled in this area in the 1840s. Berry devoted
most of his time to raising cattle and farming. As time passed, he
became the owner of a gin and gristmill and several thousand
acres of land . . . — — Map (db m163759) HM
On Old Stage Coach Road 0.3 miles west of Alabama Highway 13, on the right when traveling south.
According to the inscriptions on the cemetery's
headstones, the first burial in Tidwell Cemetery,
located beside the Byler Road, was Sarah Tidwell,
born and died in 1862. The home of Sarah's family,
including her brother, Peter Tidwell, born in . . . — — Map (db m310105) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
