Front Youngsville, Alabama was incorporated in 1872. The name was changed to Alexander City in March 1873. In 1892, when cotton was king, farmers and planters in the Alexander City area were producing an estimated 18,000 bales of cotton a . . . — — Map (db m45739) HM
Anticipating the construction of a railroad through the country hamlet of Youngsville, Griffin Young in 1860 hired W. H. Whatley to survey a portion of his property and lay it off in forty-eight town lots. In the plan two acres were reserved for use . . . — — Map (db m28544) HM
First Presbyterian Church was organized March 2, 1893. The church was made up of 17 members at the home of Robert Clinton Sandlin, who was installed as the First Ruling Elder. The church constructed their 1st building on this site in 1895. The . . . — — Map (db m28548) HM
Following a fire in June 1902 that destroyed the Methodist Episcopal Church of the North Alabama Conference, along with most of downtown Alexander City, the church leadership chose to relocate to this site.
Construction began in 1903 on the . . . — — Map (db m57995) HM
Indian farmer - merchant chose to resist whites' advance on Indians' lands. In Creek War he led Creeks at Battle of Horseshoe Bend. His warriors were beaten by Jackson's superior force but Menawa escaped. — — Map (db m66680) HM
Freedmen moving to the new market town of Youngsville in the early 1870s occupied homes along a street they called Needmore Street. They relocated their house of worship from near the present junction of South Central Avenue and Cherokee Road to . . . — — Map (db m45740) HM
In the summer of 1872 a few residents in the village of Youngsville gathered for a revival held on the hill later occupied by Mistletoe Bough. Alexander Citys First Baptist Church and the First United Methodist Church trace their origins from that . . . — — Map (db m28551) HM
The transformation of Youngsville from a country hamlet to a market town can be traced from the arrival of the railroad. The Savannah and Memphis Railroad was completed from Opelika to the east side of the Tallapoosa River at Sturdivant in 1872. . . . — — Map (db m28653) HM
Following the Creek Cession in 1832, settlers, mostly from Georgia and the Carolinas, occupied this section of the Creek Nation. Among the first settlers was James Young who purchased land a half-mile west near a trading post called Georgia Store. . . . — — Map (db m28658) HM
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Edward Bell High School
On this site Tallapoosa County Training School, later named Edward Bell High School, became the first high school for African Americans in Tallapoosa County, Alabama in 1931, with graduation of its . . . — — Map (db m92505) HM
The First Universalist Church of Camp Hill was the largest Universalist church in the southeastern United States in the first half of the 20th century. With roots in the European Enlightenment, Universalism was transplanted to the American . . . — — Map (db m92504) HM
Lyman Ward Military Academy was founded in 1898 as the Southern Industrial Institute by Dr. Lyman Ward, a Universalist minister from New York. Dr. Ward established SII to educate the poor children of Alabama, many of whom had few opportunities due . . . — — Map (db m25501) HM
In honor of those who served so gallantly
in World War II, 1941 — 1945
and
in memory of the following
who made the supreme sacrifice
Monroe Newman G.W. Henderson — — Map (db m95134) WM
This tablet is placed by
Tallapoosa County
in commemoration of the
one hundredth anniversary
of the
Battle Of Horseshoe Bend,
fought within its limits
on March 27, 1814.
There the Creek Indians, led by
Menawa and other chiefs, . . . — — Map (db m28751) HM
In 1941, the Carnation Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased
land in Dadeville to build a powdered milk plant on this site. Difficulties
securing the proper milk evaporating equipment delayed the opening of
the facility until November 1943. . . . — — Map (db m223977) HM
In 1912, Adam Hill Wilder opened a Coca-Cola bottling plant at
the corner of Cussetta and West streets. Wilder's plant produced
the beverage in 6.5-ounce glass bottles, filled one at a time by
machine. A case of thirty-four bottles cost 80’. For . . . — — Map (db m223953) HM
Called the United States Hotel until the 1890s,
the Dennis Hotel was owned by a Dadeville
family by that name for well over a century. It
began as a stage stop, and gained fame as the
living quarters for mid-19th-century humorist
Johnson Jones . . . — — Map (db m223969) HM
Dadeville First Baptist Church was organized on December 1, 1838. The initial congregation of nine community members. banding together to serve Christ, met first in a home and then in the Masonic Lodge. The first sanctuary, built in 1854 on . . . — — Map (db m95106) HM
Fletcher Farrington, after graduating from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), came to Tallapoosa County as a county agent for the Agricultural Extension Service in 1932. Concluding that soil erosion was the local farmers . . . — — Map (db m95105) HM
Alabamas first medical school.
Trained physicians who
rendered great service to
the State and Confederacy.
Closed by war
and death of its founder,
Philip M. Shepard, M.D. — — Map (db m28741) HM
Strategically located at the juncture of 19th-century roads
from Georgia and Tennessee, Dadeville was first charted in
1837. The next year, it was designated the seat of justice for
Tallapoosa County, one of a number of counties created in
1832 . . . — — Map (db m223964) HM
There on March 27, 1814 General Andrew Jackson commanding U. S. forces and friendly Indians, broke the power of the Creek Confederacy. — — Map (db m39812) HM
In August 1814, following Gen. Andrew Jackson's victory at the
Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the Creek Nation ceded its land in central
and south Alabama to the U.S. Government. On March 24, 1832, the
Creek Nation signed the Treaty of Cusseta, . . . — — Map (db m223956) HM
A 1907 act of the Alabama Legislature called for the
construction of a new public high school in each
county. Officials selected Dadeville as the location of
Tallapoosa County High School. Residents sought
private funds and used a bond issue to . . . — — Map (db m223975) HM
Honor Roll
In loving memory of the men of Tallapoosa County who made the supreme sacrifice.
"Korean Conflict"
25 June 1950 to 31 January 1955
Betts, Charles Jr.
Brooks, Jimmy
Bryant, Morris N.
Buckner, Ernest B. . . . — — Map (db m68063) WM
To the memory of
the men
of Tallapoosa County Alabama
who gave their lives in the
World War
Sanford E. Adams
Henry Lorenza Dabbs
Paul H. Harris
Amos D. Howle
Handley Mask
Clarence E. Newell
Allen Plant
Harmie E. Stevens . . . — — Map (db m68068) WM
Tallapoosa County honors its
sons who gave their lives in
World War II
Sacrifice Courage
Jack N. Adams Charles W. Allen Phillip H. Avery James F. Baker William C. Baxter Austin Belyeu Lois Blankenship Eddie . . . — — Map (db m68162) WM
The Rock Store
Built in the late 1890s by Wingfield Terrell Cosby, Sr., his wife Drusilla, and their seven children, the Rock Store was a Tallapoosa County institution for more than a half century. Local rocks crudely stacked and joined with . . . — — Map (db m223944) HM
Born and educated in Baden, Germany, and educated as a horticulturist, William Carl Roeck arrived in America in 1854 at the age of eighteen and engaged in extensive travels. He later enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving four years in the Second . . . — — Map (db m223945) HM
In 1898, nine area residents organized a Presbyterian church with Rev. B.F. Bellinger as organizational pastor. Worship services were held every fourth Sunday in the old Concord School or, weather permitting, under a bush arbor on the site. A . . . — — Map (db m95111) HM
Any officer or soldiers who flies before the enemy-shall suffer death.
With these harsh words, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson marched his soldiers 52 miles from the Coosa River to Horseshoe Bend and a bloody contest with the Red Sticks. His . . . — — Map (db m46674) HM
Having maintained for a few minutes a very obstinate contest, muzzle to muzzle, through the port-holes, in which many of the enemy's balls were welded to the bayonets of our musquets, our troops succeeded in gaining possession of the opposite . . . — — Map (db m46676) HM
Daviston, Alabama
Daviston, incorporated February 16, 1887, is believed to be the first incorporated rural town in Tallapoosa County. The first mayor was J.D. Dunn. Daviston was a natural evolution of the opening of Indian lands in 1832. Much . . . — — Map (db m92502) HM
...[The Creek] had erected a breast-work, of greatest compactness and strength-from five to eight feet high, and prepared with double rows of port-holes very artfully arranged...an army could not approach it without being exposed to a double and . . . — — Map (db m46677) HM
I ordered [Lt. Jesse] Bean to take possession of the Island below, with forty men, to prevent the enemy's taking refuge there...as many of the enemy did attempt their escape...but not one were landed-they were sunk by [Lt.] Beans command ere . . . — — Map (db m46389) HM
Here at 10:30 on the morning of March 27, 1814, General Jackson quickly emplaced his single battery, one 3-pounder and one 6-pounder. He immediately opened a lively but ineffective fire on the center of the sturdy log barricade. After his Indian . . . — — Map (db m51671) HM
Here on the Horseshoe Battleground General Andrew Jackson and his brave men broke the power of the Creek Indians under Chief Menawa March 29, 1814 — — Map (db m51673) HM
In memory of the
Soldiers and Indian allies
who died in combat with the
Upper Creek Indians during the
Horseshoe Bend Campaign in
the Creek War of 1813-1814
In memory of the
Upper Creek Warriors
who died in combat with
United . . . — — Map (db m64594) WM
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
The park offers activities designed to commemorate the events that occurred here on March 27, 1814. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend ended the Creek Indian War and added nearly 23 million acres of land to the . . . — — Map (db m46232) HM
Leading the charge on the Indian defenses, Major Montgomery fell while storming the log barricade, Horseshoe Bend was his first battle. But the 28 year old Tennessean already a distinguished lawyer, was among the most promising of Jackson's officers. — — Map (db m51667) HM
Completed in 1908, the bridge was the first to span the Tallapoosa River between Dadeville and New Site. It was named in honor of Nora E. Miller, who owned the land upon which the bridge was located. Dadeville builder W. H. Wynn and his son, Will, . . . — — Map (db m223949) HM
In 1811 Tecumseh, a Shawnee Indian tapped the growing resentment within the Creek Nation.
Treaties with the whites had always seemed to work against them. The U.S. Government had adopted a persistent policy to change Creek government and culture. . . . — — Map (db m95260) WM
[The] high ground which extended about mid-way from the breastwork to the river was in some manner open, but the declivity and flat which surrounded it was filled with fallen timber, the growth of which was very heavy, and had been so arrayed . . . — — Map (db m47498) HM
By dark, more than 800 Red Stick warriors were dead and at least 350 women and children were prisoners. Jackson's army suffered 154 men wounded and 49 killed. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend effectively ended the Creek Indian War. Five months later, . . . — — Map (db m51665) HM
In this meadow 350 women and children, sheltered in the village of Tohopeka, listened to the sounds of battle drifting back from the barricade 1,000 yards away. Alarmed, they watched as enemy Cherokee and Lower Creek warriors crossed the river, . . . — — Map (db m47469) HM
I never had such emotions as while the long roll was beating...It was not fear, it was not anxiety or concern of the fate of those who were so soon to fall but it was a kind of enthusiasm that thrilled through every nerve and animated me with . . . — — Map (db m46675) HM
Originally the name "Creek" referred only to
Muskogee Indians living near Ochese Creek in
central Georgia. Over time the name spread to
include all Muskogee people along the rivers of
present-day Georgia and Alabama. At one time
the region held . . . — — Map (db m223985) HM
On the morning of the battle, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jacksons Indian allies surrounded the lower portion of Horseshoe Bend.
The Cherokee were positioned across the river from where you stand; the Lower Creek were farther upriver to your left.
. . . — — Map (db m47446) HM
Built in 1735 by British from Carolina in futile attempt to gain trade of the Creek Indians from the French, located at Fort Toulouse, 40 mi. S. Okfuskee was the largest town in Creek Confederacy. — — Map (db m22232) HM
Jackson fortified position here during Creek Indian War (1813-1814). Although repeated attacks by the Red Sticks were repulsed, Jackson withdrew with the Indians pursuing. — — Map (db m45736) HM
In 1849, residents of Goldville began leaving the gold mining in northern Tallapoosa County for richer fields in California. A new location was found to the south. Stores, sawmills, and cotton gins were built. By 1857, “New Site” was . . . — — Map (db m92501) HM
On June 20, 1880, David M. Key, Postmaster General of the United States of America, appointed Thaddeus T. Webster as Postmaster at Thaddeus (now Reeltown), Alabama, which office he held with honor, ability and integrity until his death in 1889. His . . . — — Map (db m68033) HM
This land belonged to the Creek (Muskogee) Indians, who had lived in the Tallassee area for hundreds of years, until their removal in 1836. Benjamin Hawkins, the Creek Indian Agent for the U.S. government, visited the Creek Indians in 1798 in the . . . — — Map (db m67865) HM
Dedicated to the young men of
Tallassee who gave the ultimate
sacrifice in the Vietnam War
PFC Richard Clark
LT. Charles Davis
CW.O. Donald Estes
SGT. Joseph Johnson
CPL. Jimmy Hudson
CAPT. Davis Mathis
SGT. Calvin . . . — — Map (db m67916) WM
This stone placed at the
Great Council Tree
marks the site of
Tukabahchi
1686-1836
Capital of the Upper Creek Indian Nation. Here were born Efau Haujo, Great Medal Chief, and Opothleyaholo,
Creek leaders. Big Warrior . . . — — Map (db m67863) HM
