Old Alabama Town: Feature: The South Block

301 Columbus Street

Montgomery, Alabama 36104

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Living In the past

Tour a collection of house museums depicting how Alabamians lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Self-guided tour with an audiocassette and map.

MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Landmarks Foundation is to preserve, interpret and present Central Alabama's architecture, history and culture.

Lucas Tavern, ca. 1818

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This early 19th century tavern served as a stage stop for travelers going east and west, a place for immigrants into the Old Southwest to stop and eat, and spend the night and a place to gain information on the state of the road ahead.

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Dogtrot House, ca. 1840s

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A breeze is always stirring in the dogtrot of this house, once the plantation summer home of secessionist leader William Lowndes Yancey.

Grange House, ca. 1874

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Built by Pintlala Chapter of National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry as a meeting hall for farmers dedicated to improving the plight of families in a South recovering from Civil War.

Carriage House, ca. 1850

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Ornate dependency building typical of urban upper middle class homes. This Italianate Carriage House has handsome brackets, board and beaded batten and round-arched louvered openings

Doctor’s Office, ca. 1892

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Turn-of-the-century rural medicine is illustrated by the office of Dr. David Duncan, a one room, gabled roof with small front porch, which stood in Fleta, Alabama

Shotgun House, ca. 1880s

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Shotgun houses fit narrow lots and housed the newly freed slaves who left plantations following the Civil War.

Corner Grocery, ca. 1892

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Opened as Daniel O’Leary’s Grocery and Saloon and served as both a shopping place and a gathering spot for the neighborhood.

Church, ca. 1880s

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Black Presbyterians of Montgomery organized and built this one-story frame building with long windows, cornice molding and small steeple church in the 1880s. It later became Cleveland Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Schoolhouse, ca. 1898

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This typical one-room country school represents the many one-room schoolhouses which once provided basic education to rural Alabama communities.


Pole Barn
		Replicated Pole Barn typical of barns built in rural Alabama to protect livestock from the elements. It has an original corn crib inside.
Log Cabin, ca. 1820
		This single room pioneer log home was built by early settlers. It is a one-pen, dove-tailed log structure with loft, morning and evening porches.