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202-212 and 311 N. Beaty St., central Athens State University campus area roughly bounded by Beaty, Pryor, and Hobbs Sts. 34°48′20″N 86°58′00″W / 34.805556°N 86.966667°W / 34.805556; -86.966667 ( Athens State College Historic
There are about 15 families at the Caneyville Christian Community, living on a 200-acre (0.81 km 2) property. The members do not all have an Old Order background, but come from Amish, German Baptist Brethren, and "seeker" backgrounds. Caneyville established a daughter community near Brownsville, Kentucky, some 30 miles (48 km) away. [10]
Athens was the home of Governor George S. Houston, Alabama's first post-Reconstruction Democratic governor, who served from 1874 through 1878. Houston was noted for reducing the debts incurred to benefit private railroad speculators and others by his Reconstruction Republican predecessors. [ 14 ]
Memory Chapel Funeral Home (Poe's Memory Chapel) February 20, 2014: Union Springs: c. 1910: 12 Mt. Hilliard Methodist Church August 6, 1976: Union Springs: c. 1856: 13 Old Fitzpatrick Baptist Church September 25, 2008: Fitzpatrick: c. 1870s: 14 Old Fitzpatrick Post Office September 25, 2008: Fitzpatrick: c. 1908: 15 Old Merritt School: November ...
Bridge to Home started in late 2019, and was quickly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which prompted AAHS to keep families sheltered for longer than otherwise would have been the case.
[2] [1] A traditional funeral service consists of a viewing (sometimes referred to as a visitation), a funeral service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service. Direct cremation consists of the funeral home receiving the body, preparing it for the crematory and filing the necessary legal paperwork ...
Today's News Courier was created in 1969, when The Alabama Courier (founded 1892) and the Limestone Democrat (founded 1891) were acquired by Robert Bryan and merged. The combined paper was known in the 1980s as The Athens LC News Courier. Bryan sold his papers to Hollinger in 1997.
The Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Athens was founded in 1818 when Robert Beaty and John D. Carroll began selling tracts of land. The following year, the town was chosen as the county seat of the newly formed Limestone County.