Today, I rode to Moulton, Alabama, to join a group of people where we enjoyed several different people talking about sites in Moulton.
Our First Stop was the Moulton Negro High School, also called Moulton Rosenwald School.
We listened to a woman speak about the school that once was a Negro High School but now is an elementary and junior high for remote learning.
Next, we rode down the street to the Byler Road Church of Christ AME, where we listened to another woman talk about the history of the church.
We then rode to the Freeman Tabernacle Church on Byler Road, where we listened to another woman talk about that church and its history.
In 2019, the Freeman Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church celebrated its 150th Anniversary.
Isaac Owens donated the land for the church, and for a short time, the Baptists and Methodists worshiped together.
Reverend Freeman was the minister of the church for over 35 years.
Freeman Tabernacle church celebrated its 150 years of service in 2019.
We stopped at the Old Moulton Cemetery and listened to several different women talk about important people buried in the cemetery. They were in period dresses.
Alicia Carpenter played the character of Miss Lucy Downing, the daughter of James and Mary Downing.
Her father died when she was about four years old, and her mother went to work for the Post Office. She was appointed postmistress of Moulton and served for 17 years.
Mother Mollie Downing 1955-1933 wife of James Downing "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou" |
Lucy Downing, daughter of James & Mollie Downing 1886-1968
Lucy never married, and she followed in her mother's footsteps as postmistress of Moulton.
We stopped in front of the Smith Chapel CME Church and listened to a woman talk about the history of the church there.
Mural of Moulton |
Stopped to take a picture of the mural, not quite finished, about the history of Moulton.
My last stop was at The Hot Spot, where we listened to the history of the Hot Spot and the history of Byer Road.
Byler Road
Pioneer Alabama's settled path to new lands, agriculture, transport, and commerce began in Northwest Alabama. The 140-mile corridor was designed on Dec 19, 1819, by the state legislators. This was Alabama's first state legislative action. It started at the junction of Shoals Creek and Jackson Military Road, 10 miles northeast of Florence, AL. It ended at Warrior River Falls at the state capital crossing in Tuscaloosa, Al.
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