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The Luverne Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in Luverne, Alabama, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It then included 161 contributing buildings. [1] The district is roughly bounded by 1st St., 6th St., and by Legrande, Glenwood, Folmar and Hawkins Avenues. [2]
Crenshaw County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is located immediately south of the Montgomery metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,194. [1] Its county seat is Luverne. [2] Its name is in honor of an Alabama judge, Anderson Crenshaw.
Luverne is located at The town of Rutledge lies along Luverne's western border. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 15.7 square miles (40.6 km 2 ), of which 15.6 square miles (40.5 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.17%, is water.
Highland Home is an unincorporated community in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States. Highland Home is located on U.S. Route 331 , 16.6 miles (26.7 km) north of Luverne . [ 2 ] Highland Home has a post office with ZIP code 36041, which opened on July 15, 1837.
"A frame residence of eight rooms, one of the first homes of so pretentious forms in that country," [9] built by H. A. Tayloe, who co-owned it and was later bought out by brother George P Tayloe, who then passed it on to his son John William Tayloe, who designed Hawthorne (Prairieville, Alabama) and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh ...
The NHLs in Alabama comprise 3% of the approximately 1178 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama. Four historic sites in the state are managed by the National Park Service. One of these, the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, is also designated an NHL.
Turner's Fort, also known as Fort Turner, was a stockade fort built in 1813 in present-day Clarke County, Alabama during the Creek War (part of the larger War of 1812). [1] Turner's Fort, like many other forts built around the same time, was built in response to Red Stick attacks on settlers in the surrounding area.
The town was briefly named Crenshaw, but on June 10, 1867, it was changed to Rutledge in honor of Captain Henry Rutledge, Company H. 59th Alabama Infantry, CSA. [4] Rutledge was the first county seat of Crenshaw County and held that position from March 1867 to May 1893.