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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, pastored by Martin Luther King Jr. and used as a base of operations during the Civil Rights Movement.. This is a list of Baptist churches in the U.S. state of Alabama that are notable because they are National Historic Landmarks (NHL), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage (ARLH), or are ...
The Thomasville Historic District is a historic district in the city of Thomasville, Alabama, United States. Thomasville was founded in 1888, along the then newly constructed railroad between Mobile and Selma. The city's business district suffered a major fire in 1899, with only one brick building surviving. [2]
Thomasville was founded in 1888 and incorporated on November 24 of that year. [6] The former community of Choctaw Corner, dating back to the antebellum period, was a settlement west of what would become Thomasville, but when the merchants there learned that a railroad was going to bypass their town to the east, they decided to move their stores to be near the railroad. [7]
O'Bryant may refer to: Hugh O'Bryant (1813–1883), the first mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States, serving from 1851–1852; Jimmy O'Bryant (1896–1928), American jazz clarinetist, often compared to Johnny Dodds; John D. O'Bryant (1931–1992), the first African American to be elected to Boston's School Committee in 1977
A new town, Thomasville, developed on the railroad. The people in the older community saw the potential of the new town as a railroad shipping point and were among the first people to move there. [2] The former town of Choctaw Corner slowly declined into nonexistence and was later enveloped within Thomasville's city limits.
Northern Methodist Episcopal Church of Clarksville, also known as Bryant Chapel AME is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 309 Smith Street in Clarksville, Pike County, Missouri. It was built in 1866 and remodeled in 1915, and is a one-story, rectangular, Greek Revival style brick church.
O'Bryan was born William Bryant at Gunwen farm, Luxulyan, Cornwall and was converted to Wesleyan Methodism. In 1815 he changed his surname to O'Bryan, wishing to assert his presumed Irish ancestry. On 18 October 1815 he founded, with 22 members, the Bible Christian sect later known as "Bryanites".
Al-Iman Academy of Mobile [53] Cottage Hill Christian Academy [54] Faith Academy; Government Street Christian School [55] McGill-Toolen Catholic High School; Mobile Christian School [56] St. Luke's Episcopal School [57] St. Paul's Episcopal School; UMS-Wright Preparatory School