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…
Article NumberNo. 1 Henry County’s History Being PreservedNo. 2 Old Settlers Recollections of HenryNo. 3 Old Settlers Recollections of Henry No. 4 Old Settlers Recollections of HenryNo. 5 Old Settlers Recollections of HenryNo. 6 Jackson Brothers Cut First RoadsNo. 7 Clarence Malcomb Murphy, Sr.No. 8 Headland Rt. 3 Mail Bus in 1903No. 9 Henry County’s Most Popular JudgeNo. 10…
ByThomas Larry Smith Article NumberNo. 1 Chattahoochee River; 1928 ElectionNo. 2 Admiral T.S. Moring of Oakey GroveNo. 3 Headland’s Population TrendsNo. 4 Henry’s Largest Town In 1890No. 5 Hon. George Washington WilliamsNo. 6 Henry Yonge of Abbeville and GenevaNo. 7 Unknown Texan Pens Poem of “Henry”No. 8 County Was Devastated In 1867No. 9 How Tumbleton Got Its NameNo. 10…
By Thomas Larry Smith Article NumberNo. 1 Military Land GrantNo. 2 Headland Hotel HistoryNo. 3 1903 Henry County Grand JuryNo. 4 County Civil War ItemsNo. 5 Dothan Incorporated In 1885No. 6 1936 Newville Boys Of SummerNo. 7 Dr. Balkum A Dothan PioneerNo. 8 County Can CollectorNo. 9 General A. J. McAllisterNo. 10 Ft. Gaines – Franklin BridgeNo. 11 Last…
By Thomas Larry Smith Article NumberNo. 1 A Timber Harvest Circa 1925No. 2 1836 Franklin Post OfficeNo. 3 Dead Town Of Otho Post OfficeNo. 4 1822 Representative ElectionNo. 5 Smithville And Egypt MailsNo. 6 Daniel Washington CappsNo. 7 1893 Capps Mercantile StoreNo. 8 1858 Proposed County RailroadNo. 9 Oldest Black Riverboat PilotNo. 10 Dead town of Balkum, AlabamaNo. 11…
