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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]
The Seth Lore and Irwinton Historic District is a historic district in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as Lore Historic District; the registration document identified and described 72 specific buildings. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Barbour County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]
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 ...
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.
The Walter F. George Lake, named for Walter F. George (1878–1957), a United States senator from Georgia, is formed on the Chattahoochee River along the state line between Alabama and Georgia. It is also widely known by the name, Lake Eufaula – particularly in Alabama, where the state legislature passed a resolution on June 25, 1963, to give ...
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 ...
The Woodlane Plantation is a historic plantation with a mansion in Eufaula, Alabama, U.S.. It was established as a cotton and tobacco plantation in the 1850s for John W. Raines. [3] The mansion was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style, and its construction was completed in 1852. [3] By the 1880s, it was the home of Reuben Kolb. [3]