Eufaula, Alabama Eufaula, Alabama The Mac - Monnies Fountain in downtown Eufaula.
The Mac - Monnies Fountain in downtown Eufaula.
State Alabama Eufaula is the biggest city in Barbour County, Alabama, United States.
1.1 The Civil War in Eufaula 1.2 Reconstruction in Eufaula 1.2.1 Eufaula Baptists amid ongoing standard 1.3.1 Eufaula housing case The site along the Chattahoochee River that is now modern-day Eufaula was occupied by three Creek tribes, including the Eufaulas.:3 By the 1820s the territory was part of the Creek Indian Territory and supposedly off-limits to white settlement.:4 By 1827 enough illegal white settlement had occurred that the Creeks appealed to the federal government for protection of their property rights.
In July of that year, federal troops were sent to the Eufaula region to remove the pioneer by force of arms, a conflict known as the "Intruders War".:4 The Creeks signed the Treaty of Washington in 1826, ceding most of their territory in Georgia and easterly Alabama to the United States, but it was not fully effective in practice until the late 1820s.
By the late 1850s, Eufaula's advantageous locale on the Chattahoochee made it a primary shipping center for cargo bound for the Port of Apalachicola and, from there, to primary world markets such as Liverpool and New York City.:19 By this time, planning for the Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad, which was to include a new bridge over the Chattahoochee, was well underway. By November 1859 the barns business authorized its president to purchase slaves worth $150,000 to use for the assembly of the barns . Grading for the track bed began in January 1860. By 1861, when it had turn into clear that the American Civil War was imminent, work on the barns was suspended to allow the workers to lay track between Montgomery, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida, to facilitate the transport of Confederate troops to the Gulf of Mexico. Work on the barns was resumed after the war, and, in October 1871, the tracks finally reached the town/city limits of Eufaula and a depot agent, John O.
Very little is known about the history of Eufaula amid the American Civil War because very several intact records or newspapers survive.:10 Alabama seceded from the United States on January 11, 1861.
By the end of the month a military encampment was established at Eufaula with soldiers ready to decamp to Fort Pickens or elsewhere as needed at the onset of hostilities. Ultimately six companies of the Confederate States Army (CSA) were raised at Eufaula and Barbour County.
One of these was the Eufaula Zouaves, one of dozens of military units on both sides that adopted that name, patterning their uniforms and order of battle after the French light infantry units on which they were modeled. The CSA directed a military hospital in Eufaula amid the conflict. Eufaula's strategic position on the Chattahoochee river involved it in the naval component of the Confederate war accomplishment, and at least one ironclad warship was constructed in the city. By April 1865, the Union Army had occupied Selma, Alabama, and plans were made to move the Alabama state government to Eufaula should Montgomery fall to Federal troops. Watts, with other state officials, fled to Eufaula, establishing what the New York Daily Tribune called "the fugitive seat of Government of Alabama". On April 29, 1865, Union general Benjamin Grierson had reached Clayton, Alabama, and word had finally made it to Eufaula that the war was over.:183 The mayor of Eufaula and some members of the town/city council rode over to Clayton to escort Grierson into Eufaula, thus ensuring a generally peaceful transition to Federal control of the city.:183 By May 1865 the Daily Intelligencer of Atlanta reported that 10,000 Union troops had occupied Eufaula. In the immediate aftermath of the occupation there was a food brawl and an "attempt to illegally distribute the enhance stores". By the end of May Eufaula was sufficiently pacified that a special agent of the United States Post Office was able to bring mail from Providence, Rhode Island, to the town via Macon, Georgia, without need for any of the twenty-five armed guards he had brought with him to defend him with violence. By August 1865 cotton shipping out of Eufaula was increasing again, mostly in barter for homehold goods, which were arriving by ship in increasing quantities. However, the quantity of cotton being shipped out was nowhere near antebellum levels, and ships bound for Apalachicola were far below capacity. In November 1865 the Federal garrison that had been occupying Eufaula was relieved of duty by two companies of the 8th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment, whose commander, John Bell, assured the people that they would not "be disturbed in their lawful business." Alabama, and therefore Eufaula, was placed in the Third Military District under the command of General John Pope.
By the time the first elections were held under the new regime, in October 1867, Barbour County had about 5,000 registered voters, with about 1,500 white and 3,500 black. In 1874, members of the White League instigated the Election Riot of 1874 in Eufaula, killing at least 7 black Republicans, injuring at least 70 more, and inhibited over 1,000 the rest from voting.
Eufaula Baptists amid ongoing standard Prior to the Civil War both black and white Southern Baptists had worshipped in the same churches.
This process went smoothly in Eufaula, with black Baptists applying to the integrated church for permission to separate in May 1866.
The permission was granted, and, after negotiations, the black Baptists were allowed to purchase an old church building to home their own congregation. This congregation formed the basis of the Eufaula Association, one of two black Baptist associations formed in Alabama before to the beginning of the state association of black Baptist churches in 1868. By 1869 the site for the new white First Baptist Church of Eufaula had been purchased and $16,000 out of an estimated $25,000 necessary for its assembly had been raised. Eufaula housing case Ferguson by declaring ethnic segregation in enhance schools to be unconstitutional, the schools in Eufaula remained unintegrated. In 1955 the Eufaula Housing Authority sought to use eminent domain to condemn territory on which a number of black families had lived since emancipation in order to build enhance housing, a park, and an expansion of the white high school. The inhabitants of the neighborhood, surrounded on all sides by white areas, thought that the city's motive was actually to keep their kids out of a newly assembled high school once the now-inevitable ethnic integration occurred. District court claiming that their clients' constitutional rights were being violated by the plan. The federal case was dismissed, but Gray (now appearing without Motley) appealed to the Alabama Circuit Court, where the case was heard by then-judge George Wallace. As before, Gray claimed that since the new evolution would allow white inhabitants only, their civil rights were being violated by the City. Although his appeal of the constitutional copy was unsuccessful, Gray also appealed the city's valuations of his clients' properties and, arguing before all-white juries in Wallace's court, managed in most of the cases to win much higher prices. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the United States Department of Justice sent federal observers into 24 southern counties to enforce its provisions regarding voter registration for the Fall 1965 elections.
Many of these counties saw a momentous increase in black registration, but Eufaula, not having federal oversight, had comparatively low rates.
For instance, on August 16, 1965, 600 black people waited in line at the County courthouse in Eufaula to register, but by the time the office closed, only 265 had managed to fill out the paperwork. In 1966 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) responded by appointing a small-town Eufaulan, Daddy Bone, to organize voter registration drives in Eufaula.
The town/city of Eufaula, under some pressure from the businessmen whose stores were targeted, passed anti-picketing laws and began arresting demonstrators en masse for violating them.
In July 1968 the United States Department of Justice filed suit against 76 Alabama school districts, including that of Eufaula, in an attempt to bring them into compliance with Brown v.
Schools in Eufaula remained segregated by race until around 1970. After integration began the school stopped sponsoring civil events, such as proms although unofficial segregated affairs were still held.
By 1990, students at Eufaula High School had begun pressuring school officials to allow them to hold integrated proms, and the first such was held in 1991 without incident. George Lake (unofficially titled Lake Eufaula) behind the lock and dam of Fort Gaines, Georgia, once again assuring Eufaula's importance as an inland port.
In the early 1960s, the United States Coast Guard set up an Aids to Navigation Team in Eufaula that is still active today servicing from Columbus, Georgia, to Apalachicola, Florida, and the Flint River.
In 1964, the Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge was established along Lake Walter F.
Eufaula is positioned at 31 53'21.732" North, 85 9'13.586" West (31.889370, -85.153774). The town/city is positioned along U.S.
Highways 82 and 431 in southeast Alabama on the Georgia state line, adjoining to the town/city of Georgetown, Georgia, which is east, athwart the Chattahoochee River, from the city.
Eufaula is positioned 75 mi (121 km) southeast of Montgomery, 40 mi (64 km) southwest of Columbus, Georgia and 48 mi (77 km) northeast of Dothan.
George Lake, or Lake Eufaula to locals.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Eufaula has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 51.0% White, 44.6% Black or African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 2.2% from other competitions, and 0.9% from two or more competitions.
Advertisement in the Charleston Courier seeking superintendent for newly opened Eufaula Female Academy; June 18, 1844 Eufaula is served by Eufaula City Schools which has two elementary schools.
The small-town high school is Eufaula High School and their mascot is a tiger.
Eufaula is served as well as a lesser unaccredited school, Parkview Christian School.
It was at one time home to the Eufaula Female Academy, a female seminary established in 1844.
Many of Eufaula's historic buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other historic buildings include the Eufaula First United Methodist Church and the First Baptist Church of Eufaula.
Fendall Hall, assembled from 1856 to 1860, is an Italianate-style historic home exhibition that is owned and directed by the Alabama Historical Commission. Lake Eufaula is known as the "Big Bass Capital of the World". Eufaula was home to a minor league baseball team, the Eufaula Millers, in 1952 and 1953.
Edward Bullock, Confederate officer and two-term Alabama state senator (born October 17, 1951), former Alabama Public Service Commissioner and State Treasurer Reeves Peanut Company, the Renaissance Revival-style warehouse was assembled by the Eufaula Grocery Company in 1903.
Eufaula postal service (ZIP Code: 36027) George lock and dam which creates Lake Eufaula.
Fendall Hall, assembled from 1856 to 1860, is an Italianate-style historic home exhibition that is owned and directed by the Alabama Historical Commission. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1970.
The Tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1970.
The Bray-Barron House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1971.
The Lewis Llewellyn Cato House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1971.
Built in 1837, Sheppard Cottage is the earliest known residence in Eufaula.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1971.
The Mc - Nab Bank Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1971.
The Wellborn-Thomas House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1971.
Kendall Manor was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 1972.
The Shorter Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 1972.
The Drewry-Mitchell-Moorer House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1972.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 1972.
The Seth Lore and Irwinton Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1973.
The Kiels-Mc - Nab House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1982.
The Eufaula Carnegie Library, assembled in 1904.
This statue of a WWI doughboy, with his arm outstretched, honors the men from Eufaula who perished in the war.
History of Eufaula, Alabama: The Bluff City of the Chattahoochee.
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Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie.
Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama.
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Climate Summary for Eufaula, Alabama "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013".
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Amber Sutton, Peyton Brown, of Eufaula, crowned Miss Alabama USA 2016, AL.com, November 7, 2015, Retrieved November 8, 2015 Southside: Eufaula's Cotton Mill Village and its People, 1890-1945.
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