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York is a city in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. Founded around 1838 after the merging of two communities, Old Anvil and New York Station, the latter a station on a stagecoach line. The rail came through in the 1850s and later, the "New" was dropped from York Station in 1861.
This list of cemeteries in Alabama includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
He was a veteran and an active member in his community, participating in the Lion's Club, Centre Chamber of Commerce, and First Baptist Church. [2] Joseph "Joe" Shaw Jr., who was 17 when the paper first started, became assistant publisher of the Herald.
A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910. [2] The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 by 50 feet (12 m × 15 m), with a 40-foot (12 m) long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The ...
Originally known as the Woodall Hotel, the name was changed to Hotel Talisi in 1962. [3] The building also housed a restaurant on its first floor that was noted for its fried chicken and was a popular local venue for weddings and parties. [3] [4] On July 28, 1977, the building was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. [5]
Through the Great Depression to the 1970s, the hotel went into decline, saddled with debt and bouncing between owners. It ceased operating in 1950 and was later converted to a private residence and organ repair shop. [4] The hotel reopened in 2001, and underwent an extensive restoration in 2010–11. An antique store occupied the 1915 annex. [3]
The Yarbrough Hotel is a historic building in Huntsville, Alabama.The four-story structure was built of brick and reinforced concrete in 1922–25. The top three floors contain 75 rooms, while the ground floor features the hotel lobby and storefronts; as it did not have a ballroom or party rooms, it catered to businessmen. [2]
The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa, is a historic hotel in Mobile, Alabama. The current structure was built in 1908 as the Battle House Hotel . It is the second hotel by that name to stand in this location, replacing an earlier Battle House built in 1852, which burned down in 1905.