The average household size was 2.70, and the average family size was 3.31. In addition, you will receive a personalized, signed copy of her book. Cleverly designed free hand drawings, featuring relevant school and class news, editorials, sports section, quotes and of course snoops will feature the publication. I am specifically interested in the second wife of Leonidas. We hope everyone will seize this opportunity to experience an evening of fantastic music including Mozarts Concerto for Flute and Harp. To purchase tickets: eventbrite.com. The chocolate pie at intermission was a big hit as well. The new vocational agriculture and home economics building will be located at approximately the same location as the present building. While there we were impressed at the history and age of things around us. Lifetime dues are $300 for a couple and $250 for single. Your membership in the WHS gives you the first opportunity to purchase tickets (at a reduced rate) to the 2023 Tour of Homes in Pine Apple with our Guest Speaker, the Right Honorable Countess of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle. Shannon Douglas Cotham, West Columbia, SC. This time the name New Century Club was selected. I am interested in hearing more about your society. Email us at wilcoxhistoricalsociety@gmail.com or send via snail mail to P O Box 464, Camden, AL 36726. Wakefield was the site of our annual Christmas Open House Saturday, December 4th. Set on the Eastern Side of Wilcox County, Historic Furman, Alabama, is the site of the Wilcox Historical Society's Tour of Homes, Saturday, March 26, 2022. The staircase is unusual in that it rises from the middle of the main hallway to the upper level. Miss Lucy moved to Birmingham. We will mail them a beautiful gift certificate along with our latest newsletter. L. Hall, Alexandra, VA, From a WHS Facebook post from RuralSWAlabama.org of the Hawthorne House in Pine Apple, So much history! Several graves have been marked in recent years. The county was named after Joseph M. Wilcox, a US Army lieutenant who was killed in Alabama during the Creek War. We are keeping the original house as close to period as possible. Very well worn. I am writing a book on the July 6, 1863 Battle of Hagerstown, Maryland during the Confederate withdrawal from Gettysburg. All public schools in the county are operated by the Wilcox County School District[14] and include Camden School of Arts and Technology and Wilcox Central Academy. They were passed every two weeks, alphabetically from one member to another. Moriah Fellowship Baptist Church near Monterey located at the Butler County / Wilcox County lines. In 1925 trees were planted on the side of the highway between the Pine Apple Depot and the town itself. Robert Lee Hawthorne of Camden was the next postmaster. He is a TEDx speaker and the founder of the Heritage Poultry Conservancy. Plantations of Alabama - Genealogy Trails Adams and his wife, Pauline Davidson Adams on September 7, 1949. The majority of homes we owned have been at least 100 years old. I have found reference to a 2 LT William W. Williams, a native of Allenton, Alabama, who was killed on July 5 between Smithsburg and Boonsboro, Maryland. Thank you all for your support, generosity, and enthusiasm for our Historical Society. These are some of the debts, instinctive and cultivated that Queen Elizabeth II owes to her grandfather and they have helped make her a descendant and successor of whom he could feel thoroughly proud. Miss Minnie Presley, who has been teaching music in N.C., returned to Oak Hill on the 19th inst. Directly across the river from Camden, and southeast of Selma, Gee's Bend has one road into the community.

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