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Eufaula was the site of what may have been the last battle of the Civil War. On May 19, 1865, at Hobdy's Bridge near Eufaula a Confederate detachment attacked a 44-man detachment from companies C and F of the Union's 1st Florida Cavalry Regiment, resulting in one soldier killed and three wounded. [21]
/ Encompassing the 19th century nucleus of Eufaula, the district contains an especially heavy concentration of buildings erected during the five decades between 1870 and 1920. Within the boundaries lie the Central Business District (CBD) which is located east of Eufaula Avenue and stretches north to Church Place and south to Barbour Street.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
In the Southeast, the Musogee people (then known as Creek by European Americans) occupied a large territory including much of present-day Georgia and Alabama. By 1800, the Creek had a village named Eufala, located on Eufaula Creek, near what later developed as the present site of Talladega, Alabama. This was one of a group called their Upper ...
The Lower Creek Eufaula settled there by 1733, and quite possibly earlier than that. With more frequent contact with Europeans and later Americans, they had trade and adopted some European-style customs. The Creek Indian trailhead in Eufaula, named after Yoholo-Micco. In 1832, there was the only Upper Creek town listed on the
Alabama governors from Barbour County Name In Office Hometown John Gill Shorter: 1861–1863 Eufaula, AL William Dorsey Jelks: 1901–1907 Eufaula, AL Braxton Bragg Comer: 1907–1911 Spring Hill, AL Charles S. McDowell: July 10,11, 1924 Eufaula, AL Chauncey Sparks: 1943–1947 Eufaula, AL George Corley Wallace: 1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983 ...
One of only two antebellum octagonal houses built in Alabama and the only one to survive. 13: Sheppard Cottage: Sheppard Cottage: May 27, 1971 : 504 E. Barbour St. Eufaula: Built in 1837, Sheppard Cottage is the oldest known residence in Eufaula. The cottage still has original wood mantels, fireplaces, and oak flooring.
Buzzard Roost Creek: One of the first covered bridges in Alabama. Bridge burned down on July 15, 1972. Cane Creek: Calhoun: Ohatchee: 1886 N/A Cane Creek Bridge was destroyed by a flood in early 1936. Chamblee Mill: Blount: Blountsville: N/A 97 Blue Springs Creek: Bridge no longer extant. Chattahoochee River: Barbour: Eufaula: 1833 540 ...