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The original Huddle House in Decatur was established to give fans a place to eat after "the big game" on Friday nights. [citation needed] In 2006, Allied Capital acquired Huddle House for $124.1 million. [4] In 2009, Ares Capital acquired Allied Capital. [5] In April 2012, Ares sold Huddle House to Sentinel Capital Partners. [6]
Location of Morgan County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Morgan County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Decatur, a town of about 55,000 residents, offers a mix of historic experiences honoring its past along with an abundance of new shops, restaurants, and entertainment options. 12 Best Things to Do ...
The Southern Railway Depot is a historic building in Decatur, Alabama.The depot was built in 1904–05 along the Southern Railway line. Decatur had become a transportation hub of North Alabama by the 1870s, with its connections to the Tennessee River, the east–west Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad (later operated by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and the Southern Railway), and ...
Sep. 22—Decatur now owns the historic home of Judge James E. Horton, and the final moving date for the house should be finalized next week so it can become part of a planned civil rights museum.
The house was built in 1829 for Colonel William Francis Dancy, an early settler in the area, who later moved to Franklin, LA. It is the oldest building in Decatur, and one of only four to survive the Civil War (the others being the Old State Bank , the Rhea–McEntire House , and the Todd House in the Bank Street–Old Decatur Historic District ).
It lies south of the Bank Street-Old Decatur Historic District and east of the New Decatur–Albany Residential Historic District. New Decatur was founded in 1887 as a planned town and suburb of Decatur. The town was renamed Albany in 1916 and merged with "Old" Decatur in 1927. The district contains 48 buildings centered on 2nd Avenue.
The "Avary-Fulton House", [2] named after the Avary and Fulton families (that constructed and later purchased the home, respectively), was part of a farm that listed 19 slaves in the 1860 census. During the U.S. Civil War, Union troops first occupied Decatur in July 1864. An 1864 map of Decatur shows Union trenches along East College Avenue ...