Pottery-Making Families of Randolph County
During the 1830s, pottery-making families moved directly from the Carolinas and Georgia. Most came from the Edgefield District of western South Carolina, which boasted an important pottery-making . . . — — Map (db m118124) HM
Incorporated on January 25, 1843
Was at one time
one of the
largest cities in Alabama
with a population of
near 5,000
With the coming of
the California gold rush
in 1849
the city became
a dormant municipality
later to . . . — — Map (db m95077) HM
Church organized the founding year of the
Southern Baptist Convention. In 1876 a handsome
structure replaced the original unpainted building
on the site of the present chapel. In 1902 a
brick structure was erected. The Church hosted
the Alabama . . . — — Map (db m235574) HM
Founded March 31, 1864 by evangelist Moses Park. William Terry Kirby, Sr. and Nancy T. Greer Kirby donated four acres of land adjacent to their home for the church site. Services were first conducted at a brush arbor on the property, which later . . . — — Map (db m11732) HM
Randolph County Training School (RCTS) was chartered on
September 15, 1919 as a public school for African Americans. It
opened in the fall of 1920 with 73 students. The original two-story
wood structure was built with contributions from black . . . — — Map (db m235575) HM
Ella Gannt Smith, artist, inventor, manufactured in this building the famous Roanoke Dolls. The dolls, completely handmade, featured a head molded of plaster of Paris enclosed in a tight cotton fabric cut and stuffed to resemble body, hands and . . . — — Map (db m11730) HM
Pottery Shops in Rock Mills
After the Civil War, the establishment of the textile industry led to the growth of Rock Mills and subsequent potteries became established in town. By 1900, potteries here produced utilitarian wares covered in . . . — — Map (db m118795) HM
Near this site soon after Threat of Cusseta 1832, Peter A. Hogg built a grist mill on Wehadkee Creek, named for local Indian tribe. Settlement first called Prothro's Mill for James Prothro, who, with John McPherson, obtained a U.S. land patent in . . . — — Map (db m118127) HM
One mile north, on the east bank of the Tallapoosa River, was located Louina, named for an Indian woman who operated a trading post. Settled in 1834, it became chief business center in Randolph County with the countys first newspaper, schools for . . . — — Map (db m92503) HM
Wadley is located on the west bank of the Tallapoosa River in southwest Randolph County. It was born circa 1901 with the advent of the new Atlanta-Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad and named for George Dole Wadley who was vice president and general . . . — — Map (db m206681) HM
Created December 18, 1832, from Creek Indian Cession and named for U.S. Senator John Randolph of Virginia.
Wedowee, the county seat, is named for the chief of a Creek Indian village which once occupied this site. First court was held near . . . — — Map (db m235568) HM
An opponent of secession, he fled north in 1862. Returning after the Civil War, he was elected first governor under the Constitution of 1868 and served one two-year term. He was one of three Republican governors. — — Map (db m19015) HM
White
Rubin J. Butler Jesse Cummins Sanford Carter John Ror Carlton Mathew Floyd Sanford Gray Hoyt G. Kidd Maning Lashley W.L. Mostella Charley G. Moses Davis A. Mickle Shelly J. Pool Charley G. Park Rube Parish Robert . . . — — Map (db m235570) WM
Irvin Harrington Ayres Ray V. Bailey Cleveland D. Beck Elmer L. Belcher, Jr. Bonnie L. Benefield Harvey R. Bennett Oliver J. Bowen Willie D. Burke R.J. Butler William C. Cars Donald Carson Collidge D. Cofield Claude B. Cook . . . — — Map (db m235572) WM
