By Julia Watford Tye This small cemetery is located alongside State Highway 95 N in Henry County and is the final resting place of Washington Hamilton Peacock and his wife, Elizabeth Pennington, two pioneers who settled here soon after this area was declared the state of Alabama. They homesteaded on land located in the northeast part of the county…
1890 – 1998Tumbleton, Alabama by T. Larry Smith Presented today will be short brief synopsis of The History of the New Zion Freewill Baptist Church in Henry County, Alabama. No church records are available before circa 1922. Early church information is difficult to obtain and is an on-going process. Anyone with church information prior to 1922, please share it…
By Roberta Whiddon Childs In 1876, a group of people began meeting under a brush arbor in this community. I can just see those people in wagons or walking down dirt roads coming to Sunday meeting. They did this for five years. Tired of the wet and the cold, the little congregation decided to build a church in 1881….
By Linda Sowell The New Prospect Free Will Baptist Church began its existence in 1874 when a traveling preacher named Chesshire rode through and determined that this community south of Texasville was in need of a church. At the time, the area was thickly populated and the site had a cemetery known as the Cook graveyard which made it…
By Johnnie M. Anderson Mount Sinai Baptist Church is located about three miles west of Newville, Alabama. The church was organized as a slave congregation in 1659. Up until that time the slaves in that area met with their owners’ families for worship. The first church was a ‘brush arbor’ located somewhere between present-day Concord Church and Kirkland Crossroads…
PRESERVED Constructed in 1908, the Headland Presbyterian Church building was active until 1966. In 1983, Mr. Sporman Knowles donated the church building to Dothan’s Landmark Park, and the structure was moved to its present location in the Park and restored by citizens of Headland and friends of Landmark Park. The two-message historical marker is one of two markers chronicling…
Created on Dec. 13, 1819, by the Alabama Territorial Legislature which met in Huntsville, Alabama. She was the largest county in Alabama and the first county along Alabama’s east side and covered all of the Wiregrass. Named for Patrick Henry, Revolutionary Orator, Statesman and Hero from Virginia. The Henry County Historical Group, Inc. was organized June 2002. The purposes…
Henry County Siftings – Vol. 7, No. 49 By T. Larry Smith The oldest remaining active entity within today’s Headland City Limits is the Piney Grove Primitive Baptist Church, located on Broad Street, also known as the Newville highway or County Road 173. Piney Grove Church was constituted on April 21, 1849. That was twenty-two years before the town…
Headland was officially established on October 10, 1871, when the U. S. Post Office was opened at “Headland, Alabama”. However, Headland was settled before this time. A settlement was already at the location where the Eufaula-Marianna mail route crossed the Columbia-Newton Road just after the Civil War. The “Church of Christ at Bethlehem” was formed here circa July 1,…
The very first transportation routes in the Alabama Territory and the newly formed Henry County, mainly followed old Indian paths. Early settlers entering the new lands, now Henry County, stayed close to Ft. Gaines, Georgia for protection from the Indians. There were no roads on which to venture into the unsettled wilderness. Among the early settlers that were settling…
