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Brown-Marx Building | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedalabama.com

Brown Marx Building

National Bank of Birmingham The Brown Marx Building sits on the site of the original National Bank of Birmingham, the first bank in the state to be chartered under the National Bank Act in 1872. The...

Graves Brick Company | Photo © 2018. www.abandonedfl.com

Graves Brick Company

William Henry Graves The Graves Brick Company was organized by William Henry Graves in the early twentieth century. William Henry Graves was born on September 7, 1833, in Knoxville...

Van Pelt House | Photo © 2022, www.abandonedalabama.com

Van Pelt House

William Lester Van Pelt It later became the home of William Lester Van Pelt and his wife Lucille “Mamie” Hall. Van Pelt was a music professor who held frequent choir practices and classes...

Jenkins Brick Company Plant No. 2 | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedalabama.com

Jenkins Brick Co. Plant No.2

Jenkins Brick Company John Michael Jenkins, Founder The Jenkins Brick Company was founded in 1899 by John Michael Jenkins in Wetumpka, Alabama. After losing a leg working as an engineer for the...

Old Coffee County Jail | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedalabama.com

Old Coffee County Jail

History of Coffee County, Ala. The land in Coffee County was originally part of Dale County, which was incorporated in 1824. On December 29, 1841, Coffee County was established, named...

Rockhaven

Rockhaven

Colonel J. S. Pinckard Rockhaven was a large mansion in the Capitol Heights neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, built in 1907 by James Steptoe Pinckard Jr. who was born on August 4, 1856, in...

Judge Singleton House | Photo © 2021, www.abandonedalabama.com

Judge A. E. Singleton House

Judge Singleton House This home located on North Prairie Street in Union Springs, Alabama was built by Judge A. E. Singleton sometime between 1900 and 1903. It was designed in the Eastlake style of...

Bradley-Smith House | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedalabama.com

Bradley-Smith House

Bradley-Smith House The Bradley-Smith House is a Greek Revival-style mansion constructed in 1907 for attorney Lee Bradley, located in a Jemison Company subdivision between George Ward Park and Glen...

Faunsdale Jail | Photo © 2022 Bullet, www.abandonedalabama.com

Faunsdale Jail

History of Faunsdale Faunsdale, Alabama, was known initially as St. Michael’s Parish after a log church built on land donated by Virginian Dr. Thomas Alexander Harrison. Harrison moved to...

Old Greensboro Jail | Photo © 2022 Bullet, www.abandonedalabama.com

Old Hale County Jail

A Short History of Hale County, Ala. In December 1823, the community of “Troy” was incorporated as a town and renamed “Greensborough” in honor of American Revolutionary War...

Thomaston Jail | Photo © 2022 Bullet, www.abandonedalabama.com

Thomaston Calaboose

History of Thomaston Thomaston was first settled in the late nineteenth century, and the first post office was opened in 1892. The settlement had no official name until 1901 when the Selma to...

morning view postcard

Morning View

Gen. Mitchell B. Houghton Mitchell Bennett Houghton was born on September 14, 1844, the son of William Henry and Elizabeth Ann Bennett Houghton. In July 1861, he enlisted in Newton, Alabama in the...

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