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Sylacauga is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,578. [2] Sylacauga is known for its fine white marble bedrock. [3] This was discovered shortly after settlers moved into the area and has been quarried ever since. The marble industry was the first recorded industry in the Sylacauga area.
Location of Talladega County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Talladega County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The William Averiett House, near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1866. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included four contributing buildings on 2 acres (0.81 ha). [1] It is vernacular Cottage orné in style. [2] It is also known as The Averiett Place. [2]
Mount Ida, also known as the Walker Reynolds House, was an antebellum mansion, built in the Greek Revival style beginning in 1840 by Walker Reynolds, between Sylacauga and Talladega in rural Talladega County, Alabama, United States. [2]
The Mayor of Sylacauga, Ed J. Howard, originally intended to give it to the Alabama Museum of Natural History (AMNH) of the University of Alabama. [2] Mr. Hodges stated that he had "enough evidence that the thing fell in my house" [2] and the meteorite was eventually given back to the Hodges. [6]
The Avondale Mills were a system of textile mills located predominantly in Alabama, but also in Georgia and South Carolina, with headquarters in Birmingham, and later in Sylacauga, Alabama. The Birmingham neighborhood of Avondale was chosen to be the site of the first mill, hence the naming of the company.
An Alabama pastor was handcuffed and shoved into a police cruiser — an arrest that he said should never have happened. ... of Abundant Life Church in Sylacauga, Ala., being accosted by cops in ...
The Welch-Averiett House, in Talladega County, Alabama near Sylacauga, Alabama, dates from 1830.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] The listing included four contributing buildings on 44 acres (18 ha), on a land parcel of about 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2).