On Old Federal Road (County Road 8), on the right when traveling west.
Unmarked grave in Cubahatchie Baptist Church Cemetery. Half-blooded Creek Indian, planter, soldier, Indian agent,
and historian, Stiggins lived on a nearby farm fronting the Federal Road from 1831 until his death. There he wrote "A . . . — — Map (db m60534) HM
On Presbyterian Court (U.S. 80) 0.7 miles east of County Road 9, on the left when traveling east.
By this former Indian path
Matthew Parham Sturdivant
came in 1808 as
first official representative
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
in the territory of
the present State of Alabama,
a missionary from
the South Carolina . . . — — Map (db m78118) HM
On Auburn Street (U.S. 80) at Tysonville Road (County Highway 97), on the left when traveling north on Auburn Street.
(obverse)
Beginning in the mid-1930s during the Great Depression, the federal New Deal promoted Land Resettlement to move farmers across the nation off worn out soil to new farmland. The Resettlement Administration, and its successor the . . . — — Map (db m68000) HM
Near Old Federal Road (County Road 8) 0.1 miles west of Deer Run Trail, on the left when traveling west.
Shorter was originally called Cross Keys for the birthplace in South Carolina of an early settler, J.H. Howard. It was later named Shorter for former Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter. The town embodies the memories of the proud Creek Indian . . . — — Map (db m85463) HM
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