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The Shorter Cemetery is an American Civil War-era cemetery in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, United States.The cemetery is located on 5 acres (2.0 ha) in the middle of downtown Eufaula, on a bluff overlooking Lake Eufaula near the Shorter home, which burned in 1885.
Built around 1850, this was the home of Confederate General Henry D. Clayton, Sr., former President of the University of Alabama as well as his son Henry D. Clayton, Jr., a legislator, a judge and the author of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. 4: Drewry-Mitchell-Moorer House: Drewry-Mitchell-Moorer House: April 13, 1972 : 640 N. Eufaula Ave.
"A frame residence of eight rooms, one of the first homes of so pretentious forms in that country," [9] built by H. A. Tayloe, who co-owned it and was later bought out by brother George P Tayloe, who then passed it on to his son John William Tayloe, who designed Hawthorne (Prairieville, Alabama) and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh ...
It was originally built as a Greek Revival-style cottage of frame and brick construction for Elias M. Kiels in about 1840. [2] In the aftermath of the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the cottage was expanded to a proper mansion. [2]
The Shorter Mansion is a Classical Revival-style historic house museum in Eufaula, Alabama, United States.The two-story masonry structure was originally built in 1884-1885 by Eli Sims Shorter II and his wife, Wileyna Lamar Shorter but burned in 1895 [Eufaula Daily Times article, May 14, 1895].
The city is located along U.S. Highways 82 and 431 in southeast Alabama on the Georgia state line, adjacent to the city of Georgetown, Georgia, which is east across the Chattahoochee River from the city. U.S. 431 runs through the city from north to south as Eufaula Avenue, leading north 47 mi (76 km) to Phenix City and southwest 51 mi (82 km ...
Fort Mitchell National Cemetery is one of the 130 United States National Cemeteries, located in Fort Mitchell, Alabama, adjacent to the state-owned and operated Fort Mitchell Park. It has interred approximately 5,000 individual since it officially opened its 280-acre (110 ha) site in 1987.
The Seth Lore and Irwinton Historic District is a historic district in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as Lore Historic District; the registration document identified and described 72 specific buildings. [2]