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The area consists of Union Hill School (a K-8 school), Union Hill Senior Center and New Canaan Baptist Church. It also hosts Station #2 of the Brindlee Mountain Fire Department, as well as Lecroy's, a popular restaurant up the road from the school. The broadcast tower for radio station WRSA Lite 96.9 is also located in Union Hill. A post office ...
Location of Morgan County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Morgan County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Established as a federal reservation in 1984, the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation is governed by a nine-member tribal council and provides police, fire, judicial, and social services. A "bingo hall" has been wholly owned by the tribal government since 1990, along with some small industrial plants and a restaurant and motel. [4]
The plateau is formed by a sandstone cap-rock overlying limestone. The main mountain sits south of Lacey's Spring and houses communities such as Union Hill and Morgan City as well as parts of Union Grove and spans into Arab also. U.S. Route 231 runs over Brindley Mountain. The highest point of Brindley Mountain rests in Morgan City. A shale ...
J. W. Comer was born on the Comer family's plantation in Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama. His father, John Fletcher Comer, died when John Wallace was 13 years old. [ 1 ] Wallace, as he was known in his family, was educated primarily in private schools and through the use of private tutors. in 1861, when he was 16, the Civil War broke out ...
The Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation named it as one of their "Places in Peril" in 1996. [2] In 2001 the City of Mobile and a private company invested more than $18 million to restore the local landmark with the developer taking advantage of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive program.
Steven C. Minkin Paleozoic Footprint Site, formerly the Union Chapel Mine, is a former coal mine that became an important fossil site in Alabama after an Oneonta High School science teacher discovered tracks in the rocks at the site while preparing for a school field trip. The mine belonged to a family member of one of the children in his class.
That evening the Confederate forces gained control of the town, and the Union forces had retreated within Fort Henderson. The Confederate forces began an artillery barrage on the morning of the 24th. In a personal meeting, Forrest convinced the Union commander, Colonel Wallace Campbell, that the Confederate forces numbered 8,000-10,000.