Rutledge was the first county seat of Crenshaw County and held that position from March 1867 to May 1893. Originally called Barber’s Cross Roads, it was briefly named Crenshaw; but June 10, 1867, it was changed to Rutledge in honor of Captain . . . — — Map (db m72053) HM
In 1904, Alabama industrialist Frazier Michel
Douglass, Sr. hired a carpenter from Alexander
City, Alabama to build the Douglass House. The
house is a two-story Queen Anne Victorian and
might be the only home of this architectural type
in . . . — — Map (db m163677) HM
Crenshaw County was established from five existing counties in 1866. The first courthouse and county seat were originally in Rutledge. The county seat moved to its present location after the 1893 election. The first courthouse at this location . . . — — Map (db m183474) HM
Crenshaw County Training School (CCTS) was a predominantly Black school
built in 1931 near Brookwood Street in Luverne. The last class to
graduate from that location was in 1949 when the present building was
constructed on Hall Avenue. The new . . . — — Map (db m283915) HM
In 1887, St. John Baptist Church was established under a brush arbor in
east Luverne. The congregation relocated to its present location when
George Foreman, a white resident, donated property to the church in 1893.
Years later, in 1937, a . . . — — Map (db m283917) HM
In the late 1800s, Benjamin R. Bricken,
Crenshaw County's first attorney-at-law, built
the Bricken Building, a landmark in the field
of law in this county. Between 1893 and 1933,
the Bricken Law Firm occupied the building
Then, Ben H. Lightfoot . . . — — Map (db m163730) HM
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