On Alabama Route 15 0.2 miles south of County Road 6636, on the right when traveling north.
Creek Indians ceded this land in the Treaty of Fort Jackson
on August 9, 1814. Pike County was established from portions
of Henry and Montgomery Counties on December 17, 1821.
The county was named in honor of Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
an . . . — — Map (db m159024) HM
On North Main Street (Alabama Route 51) 0.6 miles south of West Street, on the right when traveling south.
Louisville is one of the oldest communities in southeastern Alabama. Locąted within territory ceded by the Creeks in the Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) ending the Creek War, the area was first settled by Americans as early as 1817. Many of its . . . — — Map (db m111642) HM
On Tennille Road (County Route 4421) at County Route 4418, on the right when traveling south on Tennille Road.
In 1824, Jonathan and Sarah Williams and their sons Simeon and Elisha, and their daughter Elizabeth and her husband Richard Bowden migrated from North Carolina to Pike County, Alabama. Methodist circuit rider Rev. Daniel C. McDane organized the . . . — — Map (db m223793) HM
On County Route 19, on the right when traveling south.
Samuel Sellers (1788-1857) of North Carolina arrived with his large family at Three Notch Road on January 29, 1835. Here, in what was then the Missouri Beat, Pike County, the first post office in the area was established, 2.5 miles west of . . . — — Map (db m61061) HM
On North 1st Avenue (State Highway 78) just south of Evergreen Street, on the right when traveling south.
He was a lawyer, a judge, and politician who served as the third Governor of the State of Oklahoma from 1915-1919. He moved to Durant in 1896 and served as the first town attorney in 1899. Williams helped draft the State’s Constitution, served as . . . — — Map (db m286678) HM
Near Stella Street at Clarmont Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Governor William Calvin Oates
Born in Pike County into a poor Alabama family in 1835, Oates practiced law in Abbeville when the War began. Elected Captain of the "Henry Pioneers," Co. G, 15th Alabama Infantry. He saw service in Jackson's . . . — — Map (db m86116) HM
On U.S. 29 at County Road 19, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 29.
Built by U.S. Army engineers over the summer of 1824, Three Notch Road has served as Bullock County’s major transportation route throughout its history. It was constructed to facilitate military communication between Pensacola in Florida and Ft. . . . — — Map (db m89638) HM
On Salem Road 0.1 miles west of County Road 7702, on the right when traveling west.
Pike County was created by an act passed on December 7, 1821, by the Third Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama. It included part of what is now Barbour, Bullock, Crenshaw, Henry, Macon, and Montgomery Counties, and covered . . . — — Map (db m188387) HM
On County Road 2290 0.8 miles north of Little Oak Road (County Road 2238), on the right when traveling north.
A veteran of the War of 1812, Major William Burt Allred and his wife, Jane O. Park Allred, moved from Newton County, GA to Pike County, AL in 1839. Construction began on their new home in 1840 and was completed in 1843. The home is one of the . . . — — Map (db m72056) HM
Barbour County On this site in 1833 was erected the first Barbour County Court House, a round log building 20 feet square. The first county seat was located at Louisville which had previously served as the county seat of Pike. This old Pike . . . — — Map (db m81857) HM
On Alabama Route 51, on the right when traveling south.
One of the oldest towns in southeast Alabama was settled in 1817 by Daniel Lewis who established a trading post and named the community “Louisville” after the first capital of Georgia, his hometown. By 1820 four stores, a Methodist . . . — — Map (db m60768) HM
On U.S. 82 at County Road 35, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 82.
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Built by U.S. Army engineers over the summer of 1824, Three Notch Road has served as Bullock County’s major transportation route throughout its history. It was constructed to facilitate military communication between Pensacola . . . — — Map (db m89637) HM
On 1st Avenue 0 miles north of 10th Street, on the left when traveling north.
A Pike County, Alabama native of African-American descent, Dr. Brewer was born November 16, 1894. His office was located at 1025 1/2 First Avenue. Brewer emerged as a chief spokesman for the Civil Rights of the Negro and was described by Roy Wilkins . . . — — Map (db m10975) HM
Near Montgomery Street at State Street, on the left when traveling north.
Scores of people lost their lives in the struggle against racial injustice. Here are the portraits of 32 people whose deaths profoundly impacted those who organized, boycotted, and marched in Montgomery, Alabama.
[Left to Right - . . . — — Map (db m304155) HM
On U.S. 82 at County Road 79, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 82.
In 1828, Reverend John Wesley Norton left his native South Carolina with his family and a wagon train of followers, crossed into the Creek Indian Nation and just into the edge of what was then Pike County, settling near the present town of . . . — — Map (db m78123) HM
On North Main Street (Route 93) 0.2 miles north of 7th Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
(Front): First Presbyterian Church in Pike County Organized largely by members of Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church near Camden, South Carolina. — — Map (db m36516) HM
On County Road 5 north of County Road 28, on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
South Alabama Electric Cooperative’s Goshen Substation provided the first electric energy to rural Pike County. The station was energized at 11:26 A.M. on April 4, 1938. The first 86 miles of electric lines served 170 members.
The cooperative . . . — — Map (db m284359) HM
On South Montgomery Street 0.2 miles east of Glenwood Road, on the right when traveling south.
To All The American Servicemen and Women Of Pike County, Alabama Who Paid The Supreme Sacrifice in Wars for Their Country and for The Freedom We Now Enjoy Each Day. The Price of Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
World War I Korea . . . — — Map (db m231991) WM
Born in Henderson, Alabama in 1850, Fletcher Jackson Cowart began his working career as a public school teacher. He later served superintendencies for both the Pike County and the Troy City schools. He was editor of the Troy Messenger and a . . . — — Map (db m38934) HM
On East Church Street 0.1 miles north of Love Street, on the right when traveling south.
To all the American servicemen and women of Pike County, Alabama who paid the supreme sacrifice in wars for their country and for the freedom we now enjoy each day. The price of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
World War I • World War . . . — — Map (db m267681) WM
On Gardner Bassett Road (County Road 55) east of Browns Mill Creek Road (County Road 7757), on the right when traveling east.
Born February 21, 1940, John Lewis was raised on this rural Pike County land
by his parents, sharecroppers Eddie and Willie Mae Lewis. In December 1957,
while a student at American Baptist College in Nashville, Lewis applied for
admission to . . . — — Map (db m258082) HM
On East Church Street 0.1 miles north of Love Street, on the right when traveling south.
In the weeks following the Selma to Montgomery March, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) planned a widespread southern voter registration campaign. Anticipating passage of the new Voting Rights Act, the Summer Community . . . — — Map (db m267680) 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.
