Three Dollars Winter 1995

THE HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE

QUARTERLYOf Local Architecture & Preservation

Preservation: fo r All Times and AllSeasons

HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION Founded 1974

Officers for 1994-1995

Suzi B olton..................................................................... ChairmanSybil W ilkinson.....................................................Vice-ChairmanCarol H arless...................................................................SecretaryJim M aples....................................................................... TreasurerSuzanne O’Connor (Immediate Past Chairman)...... Ex-OfficioB. J. Robinson........................................Management CommitteeElise H. Stephens..................................................................EditorLynn Low ery......................................................Trip Coordinator

Board of Dire ctors

Margaret Cole Lynne LoweryKyleen Daly Wayne LumpkinDiane Ellis Jim Maples

Carlene Elrod Lauren MartinsonDavid Ely Gayle Milberger

Henry M. Fail, Jr. Mabry MillerBillie Grosser Judi MoonRevelle Gwyn Loch NeelyCarol Harless Roger NicholsonGary Hough Stephanie Sherman

Ira Jones Robert VanPeursemLynn Jones Nancy Van Valkenburgh

Crystal Kitchens Ben WalkerBarbera Liddon Ben Wilcoxon

Terry Long Sybil Wilkinson

THE HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE QUARTERLY

of Local Architecture and Preservation

Vol. XXI, No. 4 Winter - 1995

CONTENTS

From The HHF Board Chair—Suzi Bolton........................... 166

From The Editor—Elise Stephens.......................................... 167

A House for All T im e............................................................... 168Sim Liddon

A House for All Seasons ..........................................................176Sarah Dudley Hall Edwards

The "Door to Nowhere" Leads to "Manure M anor"............. 183Elise H. Stephens

Falls Mill Price L is t.................................................................. 188

The Planter's Railway............................................................... 189Paul Harncourt

Index............................................................................................190

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From the Chair

Dear Foundation Members:

Happy New Year! A big thank you to all o f you who helped make all the Historic Huntsville Foundation events o f 1995 so memorable. The most recent event was the M embership Tea, which Gayle M ilbergerand her diligent com m ittee members worked tirelessly to make so successful.

If you haven't purchased your Harrison Brothers Bank yet, be sure to stop by the store and take note of these cast iron banks. They are replicas o f a 1923 Chevy 1/2 ton delivery truck and bear a vintage Harrison Brothers logo on both sides. In addition to being a great accessory in your own home, these banks make wonderful gifts!

Historic Huntsville Foundation has been awarded the proceeds from the 1996 Victorian Cotillion which will be sponsored by The Gothic Guild in M arch. These funds will be used to make some much needed repairs to the facade of Harrison Brothers Hardware Store.

In May the Foundation will hold its biennial Movable Feast. Three hom eowners in the Twickenham District have graciously agreed to allow us to use their gardens for the feast.

The Alabama Historical Commission has requested our assistance in com piling a list o f endangered buildings. If Foundation members learn of an historic building in the Huntsville-M adison County area which may need preservation, please contact one of your Board members so that we may be aware of the situation.

As you can see, the new year holds opportunities for service to your Foundation and the Huntsville community as well as several interesting activities in which to participate. W e look forward to seeing many of you involved in these activities in 1996!

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From the Editor

"Two modern homes, constructed according to updated building codes, dressed in all the finery associated with houses o f their high-rent profile, providing their owners pampered living." Sounds good. Sounds like the Sunday Real Estate section in the newspaper. S o ...w hat's the pitch? Where does historical preservation come in? The thrust o f this issue is to invite readers to view preservation as a continuum , as much a concern to new home builders as old home rem odelers. One does not have to build a historical "reproduction" or restore an old home to be a player in historical preservation. Build with an eye to the future as well as the past, and build well, for the ages.

Just as Huntsville has a history, so too does each o f its neighborhoods. When a home builder consciously seeks to create a structure, a living environment, in harmony with the history of the neighborhood, then whether that district be one hundred years old, twenty or fifty years old, the new home becomes a part o f the historical fabric and takes its place in the continuum.

Historical Preservation must be futuristic. M odem structures have their rightful, necessary place tucked in with the old. We should welcome them —especially when they display the pride in w orkm anship and design so evident in the Liddon and the M eiers-Edwards houses.

O f course we readers o f the Quarterly love the old. Dr. Gammill's "yesteryears" and the Lipscomb place in Old Salem, Tennessee, take us back to the 1800's. Ironically. Dr. Gammill has added touches to his old house reflective of the Charleston-New Orleans flavor found in the newer Meiers- Edwards house, and the federal style of the Liddon's house conveys the same strength and simplicity found in the Lipscomb house.

W hat goes around, comes around. Preservation is for all times and allseasons.

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A House for All Time: The New Old House on White Street

by Sim Liddon

W hen my wife, Barbera, and I began searching for a lot on which to build, we looked in the old part o f town, which still had an intimate, small town atm osphere about it. We favored one particular lot on W hite Street, one of perhaps five empty lots available in the historical district, and a visit to the courthouse determined the owner. But would he/she be willing to sell? A phone call that evening evoked the response: “I can’t believe this. My wife and I are sitting here discussing w hether or not to sell that lot, and you call asking about buying it.” W ell, we all felt providence was guiding us, and within three or four minutes a purchase price was agreed upon.

W hite Street is an old street, appearing on the 1861 map of Huntsville, but as far as I know this particular lot on the east side near its intersection with California Street had never before had a house on it. It is now part o f what is called the Halsey-Yeatman addition, one o f the oldest residential areas in H untsville. However, when it was surveyed and divided into lots back in 1888, it was described on the original plat simply as “Building lots situated on the east end of Poplar Hill, owned by M essers. W. L. and C. H. Halsey and J. R. Y eatm an;” not a subdivision or an addition but just “building lots.” The land had been a part o f the community of Twickenham before the name was

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changed to Huntsville in the early 1800’s, and much later the lot had been owned by the Harrison brothers, o f Harrison Brothers Hardware. Over the years it had been used by area garden clubs for their plantings, and in clearing the lot hundreds of day lilly bulbs were unearthed by the bulldozer and given to various recipients, including the Burritt M useum. Boxwoods, Jackson vine, and cherry laurel had all been planted years before and were found on the rear o f the lot.

The building site determ ined, we proceeded with the house plans. W anting the fun o f designing it, and preferring to put my money directly into mortar and bricks, I drew the plans myself. From the onset the focus was on making sure the house looked old and fit into the historical d istrict, which meant many walking trips through downtown Huntsville to get a feeling for its antebellum architecture.

Because the lot itself was som ewhat narrow, seventy feet across being considered am ple width for a residential lot back in 1888. there were restrictions as to what could be done architecturally. It was two hundred feet deep, however, and still quite buildable. And, as it turned out, a two story federal house could fit the lot quite nicely. The width of the lot, then, determined the general style and the dim ensions of the house across the front. Its exact location on the lot was determined by the Japanese m agnolia in the front and the big pecan tree in the rear, two of the many trees we wanted to save.

Barbera and I always liked the front porches we knew as children, where one could sit and rock and watch what is going on up and down the street. So a front porch was a necessity, except that federal houses had no front porches. Here in Huntsville, however, Victorian porches were added to federal houses years after they were build; and without knowing we were mixing architectural styles, we went ahead and planned for a porch. W anting som ething a little less ornamental than the usual Victorian porch, we left off the scrollwork on the cornice, but we added octagonal colum ns. Tim Schremsher and Louis Booth, our builders, installed the colum ns in the historically correct m anner with the columns them selves extending som ewhat beyond the cornice.

One of our most important and hardest decisions was the choice o f brick.The brick most recom m ended as giving an old, historical look was much too brown for ourtastes. We wanted som ething more red, and we finally decided on a particular wood-

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mold brick made in C olum bus, Georgia.The single front step and the brickwork of the front walk was the suggestion o f Bill Nance, artist and landscape designer, who helped with the back patio. You will notice one particular brick on the north edge o f the front walk that is d ifferent and somewhat larger than the

others. Imprinted on it are the letters “ P & Q Yazoo City M iss,” with the letters “ ss” backwards. P and Q stand for Pugh and Q uakem eyer,the owners of the old brick yard which at one time stood atop what we as kids knew as “brick yard hill” in Yazoo City, Mississippi. The brick itself was taken from Barbera’s great grandfather's house in Yazoo County when it was torn down years ago. This makes it the oldest item in the construction of the house, dating probably to the late 1800's.

We decided to include a w ater table in the brickwork to give it a unique and distinctive look, and the brick com pany in Georgia sent more pieces for the water table than I had thought we needed or had ordered. There were enough left over to incorporate them into the top part o f the back patio, something that looks very good, but was not planned until the bricking of the patio itself.

As just implied, the back patio itself is two tiered. I knew pretty much what I wanted for the bottom part, the planting areas on either side, the circular pool with a fountain, and the steps down to a semi-circular back area, etc. H owever, it took Bill N ance’s artistic eye to design the top part, with the planted areas and the wide steps down to the bottom level, done so that one could add a pergola if it were later desired.

The low stone wall bordering the lawn and planted area in the back was built by hand, my own hand, on several hot afternoons in the summ er of 1993. Many of the stones came from the front porch of the house next door. They were renovating their porch at the time and needed to dispose of their debris. I needed stones; so it was good for both parties.

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Designing the interior floor plan was fun. 1 wanted to open the front door and be able to look straight down the hallway, through the dining room, and out the back o f the house to the patio, the pool and fountain, and beyond. And. from the beginning we knew we wanted large rooms with ten foot ceilings downstairs and nine foot ceilings upstairs. Although truly historical houses have higher ceilings, we felt that the ten foot ceilings downstairs would be enough to give the correct feeling of height and a sense o f spaciousness. The three large entrances into the living room and the glass transom s above the doors add to the feeling of openness. But what we did with the back of the house adds even more to that feeling.

W hile we wanted the front to appear sim ilar to the old historical houses nearby, we felt no such restrictions for the rear and more private part away from the public’s v iew . T hus, once you get into the house it opens up, with

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large sliding glass doors and transoms across the entire back and large plate glass windows in the sunroom.

We wanted our private living space downstairs, including the m aster bedroom and bath . The stained glass window in the master bathroom we bought locally. Barbera and I both preferred old stained glass to something new, and it probably came originally from an old church in this area. It was already about the right size, although we did have to add some border to make it fit properly. A nother major feature of the inside was the use of shutters for the window

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treatment, something we had seen in several historical homes here in H untsville. The spindles for both the interior stairs and the outside porch railing were hand made by Tim and Louis from planks o f poplar they obtained in Tennessee especially for this purpose. The flooring on the first floor was o f five inch oak, simulating the wide planking found in the old homes.

Two additional guest bedroom s, a bath, and a large walk-in storage room are upstairs. In case a future occupant will need more bedroom s, however, we painted the storage room and finished it out with shutters and molding similar to the rest o f the house. And, because a bathroom would be needed if two bedrooms are added, we brought the plumbing upstairs and marked it on the subflooring to be found if needed later. If the second floor is ever rem odeled, and a door is needed at the front o f the storage room; a frame for a doorway can be found in the wall between the storage room and the upstairs sitting area, behind the built-in cabinets.

Barbera and M aria Bosley, our decorator, selected the interior paint colors. They chose W illiamsburg colors from M artin Senour; Paprika for the sun room, a teal color called Apothecary Shop Blue for the living room, Sweet Honey Yellow for the hallway and dining room, and Beatrice Blue for the bedroom. The only color downstairs that was not a W illiam sburg color was the bright red in the kitchen, which was mixed to match some favorite hand-painted pottery and dishes done by Gail Pittman.

Besides the choice of colors, we also agonized over the selection of m olding. Although federal houses had no m olding, we sure wanted some. A variety o f choices were considered, and we decided eventually on a com bination of four pieces, the two principle pieces being of a concave and a dentil molding. Two that, interestingly enough, we had originally rejected when considering them separately.

For the sake of esthetics, we used a copper standing seam metal roof on the front porch; and for the sake o f our pocketbook, asphalt shingles were used over the two story part o f the house. The rear o f the house posed problems. Because of the extrem ely low pitch of the roof over that part of the house, the possibility existed that rain water would run off very slowly, possibly accumulate and cause a leak. For financial reasons, I considered both a corrugated metal roof and a specially applied asphalt shingle roof. But there was still the clear possibility o f a future leak. So, in the end, a standing seam metal roof was the only sensible option.

A second construction related problem at the rear o f the house concerned fire regulations and the installation of the brick on the second story, above the roof I just mentioned. The building regulations had changed only months before, and any brick had to rest on nonflam mable material all the way

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to the ground. Previously the steel beam on which the second story brick rested would have been tied in to wooden studs, but this was no longer possible. An engineer designed metal posts to uphold the beam , and the whole affair was secured with large bolts to a concrete foundation, requiring a large crane for the installation.

All in all, building the house was a lot o f fun, and the most-prized compliments came from the m any, many workmen who cam e in for some particular project and said, “Boy, its really a job remodeling one of these old houses, isn 't it?”

Sim Liddon has been in the private practice o f psychiatry in Huntsville fo r over twenty-five years. Barbera, his wife, has lived in Huntsville only nine years since they were married in 1986. They have known each other since she was three and he was fiv e years old, having grown up together in Yazoo City, M ississippi. He went on to Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins M edical School, d id a residency in Rochester, New York, and i vas on the s ta ff at several universities before moving to Huntsville in 1970. Barbera went to M ississippi State University fo r Women and to the University o f M ississippi, and had lived in G u lf Port and Jackson, M ississippi, before eventually moving to Huntsville. She is an active volunteer and presently serves on the Board o f D irectors o f the HHF.

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A House for All Seasons: Number Six Cruse Alley

by Sarah Dudley Hall Edwards

The enduring character and seeming permanence of Twickenham is com forting in changing times. Recent additions to historic Twickenham blend graciously with existing homes. This is due primarily to the vigilance and efforts o f those who organized the Twickenham District Preservation A ssociation in 1965. The residence at Number Six Cruse Alley is one example o f a relatively new Twickenham addition. It is a town house (contemporary open plan). Although it is consistent with and harmonizes with neighboring homes, it is com fortably integrated into its own time and its own place —the essence o f balance and proportion. The basic structure, circa 1972, with wrought iron balconies reflects a classic Charleston influence. According to the Nashville architect, Batey G resham , the home is a product o f a client and architect "love affair." Mr. Gresham and his wife Ann were good friends and neighbors o f the clients, Fred and Anne M eiers, in Nashville. The architect was fam iliar with the Charleston area and the homes along the South Carolina coast. "Typically, the structures were one room deep with verandas facing the water." Anne Meiers' home state is the neighboring state o f North Carolina. Number Six Cruse Alley is the manifestation of Anne and Fred Meiers' success in com municating to Batey Gresham the distinct atmosphere or ambiance they were seeking in their Huntsville home.

The Charleston effect was enhanced over the next several years. Additions included a garden room, veranda, and pool-side cabana by architect.

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David Crow. His plans also included the brick patio and Roman style pool. Harvilee Harbarger developed the garden with extensive evergreen plantings. Southern m agnolia trees were placed at each corner o f the brick and iron wall surrounding the property. These refinem ents were com pleted in the early 1980's.

The architectural proportion, balance, and continuity of Num ber Six Cruse Alley are supported by several themes: the palladian w indows, pineapple (hospitality sym bol), exterior and interior shutters, high ceilings, paneling, and extensive crown molding.

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A picture tour o f the first story o f the home will reveal that it is of m odest size in com parison with neighboring homes. However, the style, quality, and classic appointments make it in Anne M eiers words "a small jewel!"

The Foyer

Above the double front doors, two hand-carved 19th-century griffins stand guard.* On the eastern wall, a 19th century hand-carved m irror rests on and is integral to the matching wooden entry opening into the formal living room.Cartouche, a scroll type ornam ent, is an architectural feature of both the griffins and the mirror. A curved staircase leads to the second story. The foyer sets the formal stage and color scheme for the rest o f the house. The twenty inch crown molding, in three distinct sections, stair steps, rail spokes and trim are painted in three com plimentary shades graduating from a soft beige to a golden tan. Popular designers like Mark Hampton refer to the color scheme as "palomino."

* In G reek m ythology, the G riffin w as a creature with the body o f a lion and the head and w ings o f an eagle. G riffins drew the chario t o f the sun; they also guarded a golden treasure that the A rism asphians, a one-eyed Scythian people, tried to steal.

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Breakfast Room and Kitchen

Some think o f Six Cruse a s " New O rleans" sty le. The twenty foot ceiling room with balconies inside and outside, palladian w indows, brick floor and hanging ferns gives just such a feeling as does the galley kitchen. The kitchen's special feature is solid walnut cabinets that extend to the ten foot ceiling. A large watercolor, by a local artist, of a lobster on a tray with artichokes and a dish of drawn butter further add to the "New Orleans" effect. This milieu does not conflict with the original Charleston theme envisioned by the clients and translated and accom plished so successfully by the architects Gresham and Crow.

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Living and Dining Rooms

By today's standards, the painted paneled living room and dining room are large. Between the two rooms is a fireplace w ith a classic mantle, faced with Italian m arble, and a marble hearth. Two doors on opposite ends of the fireplace lead past small library nooks into the dining room. Colonial windows in the living room are repeated in the dining room at the opposite end o f the house.

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Garden Room

A wall o f palladian windows and doors look out to the courtyard, pool and cabana area. This spacious room with its brick floor, abundance o f light, columns, eleven foot ceiling with wide paneled beam s, and variety of plants, make it a most inviting room for relaxation.

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Architects:

Batey M. G resham , Jr.: Gresham , Smith and Partners, Nashville, Tennessee.

David A. Crow: The Crow, Peters, Neville Group, Huntsville, A labama (Am erican Institute o f Architects).

Note: The architect (Mr. Gresham) tells the story of the brick facing on the house which was an antique sand-faced finish selected to blend with the homes in the historical district. The bricklayers were instructed to brush and wash the brick. They d id —with wire brushes! This process removed most o f the sand faced finish.

Sarah H. Edwards, DP A, is employed by the U.S. Arm y M issile Command. She has a Bachelor o f Arts and Sciences from the University o f Oklahoma, a M asters and Doctorate in Public Administration fro m Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She is a member o f the Church o f the Nativity and the Huntsville M usic Study Club. She is the wife o f M erle D. Edwards (Dan). A native o f Columbus, Ohio, Dan came to Huntsville in 1956, and was associated with the defense industry until his retirem ent in 1985. A World War II Army A ir Corps pilot, Dan continued fly ing as a hobby fo r many years.

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The “Door to Nowhere”Leads to “Manure Manor"

by Elise H. Stephens

On the road to Falls Mill, a destination much esteem ed in this section for its Living History, its real-life, daily milling of the grain that makes our bread executed on 19th century water-powered, steam -generated machinery by a genuine m iller Chaucerian in his lively authenticity (see letter, last issue), one encounters other delightful sights and am usem ents. On recent trips to Falls Mill, I have had the good fortune to meet and be utterly charm ed by Dr. James C. Gamm ill, recently returned from years in France and more recently a sponsoring m em ber of the HHF. W elcome home, Dr. Gammill and welcome to HHF.

Even before meeting Dr. Gammill, Dot Johnson and I had stopped at his enchanting home on the David Crockett highway, just down from the Sim mons-Shadow house at Beans Creek. On that visit I photographed the

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exterior and the vista as best I could through the side-windows of Dr. Gam m ill’s front and back doors. The elegant brick G eorgian house has a kitchen in the rear which Dr. Gammill had renovated, with the em phasis on innovate, to resem ble a French-Swiss chalet with w indows open on the back to view the Cum berlands and a loft for cozy sleeping. Betw ixt the kitchen and house. Dr. Gammill has added an inviting, sun-lit, open-windowed garden room The Door to Nowhere which is actually an 18th Century French Louis XV wardrobe door backs onto the kitchen loft and fronts the intimate garden room. Dr. Gamm ill, ever the rom antic,

explains that while the "door on the one hand leads to nowhere in concrete reality, sym bolically it leads back to a part o f old Salem's past."(letter, Jan. 2, 1996)

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Dr. Gammill sent me three articles, and visits to the area generated more inform ation about historic Old Salem, a stopping off point in the migration of families into North Alabama. Once a thriving cotton port, Beans Creek connecting to the Elk River, the Elk connecting to the Tennessee River, Old Salem ’s flatboaters met up with H untsville’s hearty mariners near Florence and made their way to New Orleans. Richard W. A nderson,one o f H untsville’s legendary figures, whose monument in M aple Hill is the tallest and also the marker for the Huntsville meridian, foot-raced it back to Huntsville just as Peter Simmons, John R. Patrick and Dick Holder did to Old Salem.

Fertile fields and rising dem and led to the creation of cotton gins and grist mills to serve a growing population with names fam iliar to us: Beans, Russells, Hunts, Larkins, Cowans and Crocketts. A Frenchman added his name, W. A. Rachielles, to the mix when he took over the direction of the milling m achinery and wool cards run day and night at the original Mann and David Mills, predecessors o f Falls Mill. This early French connection is only one Dr. Gammill is fond of recalling. The fact that his home, built circa 1810- 1830 (letter, Nov. 27,1995) is located on the Old Stage Road or the W inchester- Huntsville Road, connecting stagecoach travel from New Orleans to Philadelphia suggests a New Orleans/French connection that Dr. Gammill has elaborated throughout his home by the placement o f w rought iron. He laughingly refers to the house’s condition as being “over-wrought.”

The house would not have been the only thing over-wrought, if that nice Tennessee patrolman had given me a ticket for speeding. On my latest visit with Dr. Gammill, Harvie Jones accom panied me. I’m sure it was his presence in my automobile that dissuaded the highway patrolm an from giving me a ticket. I knew then, though, that we were probably in for an adventure. Sure enough. The Door to Nowhere was leading to somewhere. Harvie knew of the old Lipscomb house and wondered if Dr. Gammill knew how to find it. Lo and behold Dr. Gamm ill could not only find it, he could tell usall about it, as it turned out to have been the ancestral home of his Aunt and Uncle, Anne and Lipscom b Noblitt.

A short ride and an invigorating hike through a field surrealistically dotted with 1940’s and 50’s filling station gas pumps, huge rubber tires, and abandoned pieces o f farm machinery brought us to the gate o f the property. Once over the gate, we found ourselves surrounded by cows and generous helpings of their patties. Picking our path carefully, we wound by a 1940’s Chevrolet truck rooted to its place with a tall tree growing out o f its hood. I couldn’t help but think of W illiam Christenberry, a photographer worthy of this wonderful landscape.

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The Lipscomb House sits on a rise so that it com mands all that it surveys, even if it is now in what can only be called a cow pasture. The house is in awful shape, flooring is gone, windows out, ju st a remarkably durable, thick-walled, barn-backed, bovine-haunted edifice remains. Yet we were struck by its stark beauty, com pelling symmetry and aura o f past respectability. This noble structure cries out for restoration. It is not too late.

Harvie exclaimed that this is an excellent example o f a tidewater-type cottage. His surmises, including the approxim ate age o f the house, were later confirm ed in a letter from Dr. Gammill which included the following inform ation he had secured from his esteemed Aunt. Lipscomb family records reveal that W illiam Lipscomb, son of Thomas and Mary Smith Lipscomb, married Ann Day Cooke, daughter o f W illiam and Ann Nelson Cook, in Louisa County, Virginia, on Decem ber 20, 1796. About 1826 W illiam moved to Franklin County, Tennessee and purchased 468 acres o f land for $3,740 in 1828. On this land he built a seven-room, brick house “following closely the architecture of the early Tidewater, Virginia houses.”

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A later stroll through the family cemetery located within earshot o f the house brought forth more family history. Both W illiam Lipscomb and his wife were buried there. W illiam ’s stone tells us that the date on which he was born also marked his death, January 1 7 ,1 7 7 4 -January 17, 1829. Tomb stones also tell us that N .J. Lipscomb, daughter o f Jno. and Sallie Lipscomb, born J uly 17, 1832 married Robert Newton M ann on October 30, 1851. N.J. (Nannie) died Dec. 29, 1895. Robert Newton, born M arch 1,1825 died Nov. 23, 1903. This Robert Newton M ann partnered with Azariah R. David to build the three-story brick mill at Factory Creek which becam e known as Falls Mill. W hat at first appears as ironic, that the road to Falls Mill leads to a quiet family cemetery is no more so than that the D oor to N owhere leads to M anure M anor. Old Salem is a magical place. As D eborah Roop wrote in a M ay 12,1988 Huntsville Times article about Falls Mill, “Drive 40 miles north o f Huntsville and end up about 100 years in the past.”

Dr. G am m ill’s letter accom panying the fam ily’s data breathes more life into the facts:

“I had Thanksgiving dinner at my sister’s & brother- in-law ’s house in Tullahoma. My aunt and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. H. Lipscom b Noblitt were also there. At my request, my aunt went to considerable trouble to look up her notes on the Lipscom b house which we visited (alas, it could now be called “M anure M anor.”) in Beans C ree k ... Probably my uncle’s great-great-great grandfather had a nostalgia for a fam ily home in Louisa County, Virginia. If the dates are correct, poor man, he must have died when the house had barely been com pleted or else was under construction. His widow, according to what was handed down through generations to my uncle, was a very pious lady and walked, as in Biblical times, each Sunday to the Beans Creek Church.”

Dr. Gamm ill concluded his charm ing letter with the following w him sical gesture which I fully endorse!

“Perhaps meantimes you and Mr. Jones could find some rich Alabam ian to buy and restore the old Lipscomb house in Beans Creek, and Mrs. Jones could receive truck loads of good Tennessee manure for her garden!”

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The Planter’s Railwayby Paul Harncourt

T h is is a boo k ab o u t the firs t ra ilro ad to b ring the M ississip p i R iv e r V alley and the E ast C oast o f A m erican to g e th e r— the M e m p h is & C h a rles to n R ailro ad (M & C ). T he ex c ite m ent o f see in g a ra ilro ad bein g born is fo llow ed by the p a in s o f be in g caugh t in a C ivil W ar an d ev en tu a lly a b so rb ed by the S ou th ern R a ilw a y . M o st o f the d eta ils g iven are from n ew sp ap e rs o f the d ay an d the A nnual R ep o rts o f the M & C .

T he book sta rts o u t w ith w h at is ca lled the ‘E x c ite m e n t P e r io d .' w here m any o f the unknow n d e ta ils abou t the b eg in n in g o f ra ilro ad s in the N orth A lab am a . Southern T en n essee , and N orth M ississip p i areas are b ro u g h t to g e th er. W e read how the M & C bu ild s tw o se p a ra te ra ilro ad s to co m e to g e th e r in to on e . O ne ex ten d s from T uscu m b ia to S tevenson A lab am a (to link up w ith the N ash v ille & C h a ttan o o g a R a ilro ad bein g built a t the tim e), an d the o th e r fro m M e m p h is ea s tw ard to w ard T u sc u m b ia .

W e see the final sp ike d riven on the M & C , in the y e a r 1857, ju s t five y ea rs to the date o f its b eg in n in g . T h e re are ac tual d e ta ils on how the ra ilro ad s w ere su rv ey ed and then bu ilt in tho se d ay s; w ith oak s trin g ers an d w ith h a lf inch strap s o f iron nailed to w ooden ra ils , b e fo re iron “T ” ra ils w ere in tro d u ced from E n g la n d . W e learn how they w ere opera ted by “C a p ta in s ,” o r “ R u n n e rs ,” and how the ra ilro ad s w ere p o w ered befo re there w ere lo c o m o tiv e s— w ith m u les and h o rses p u llin g the ca rs . U ltim ate ly w ith techno logy they o v ercam e the p ro b lem s they faced .

T he C iv il W ar lite ra lly an d p h y sic a lly a lm o st d es tro y ed th is f led g lin g ra ilro ad . T he d eta ils o f th is p erio d are tak en fro m the O ffic ia l R eco rd s o f the W ar o f the R ebellion as com p iled by the g o v e rn m e n t in the late 1800’s, and the A nnual R ep o rts o f the M & C .

B oth a rm ies a lte rn a te ly d es tro y an d reb u ild the ra ilro a d , fig h tin g a lo n g its leng th , a s tretch ca lled "T h e G re a t V erteb rae o f the S o u th " by S o u th ern g en e ra ls . T here is the cap tu re o f H u n tsv ille , w ith o u t a sh o t be in g fired in the to w n . S k irm ish es betw een w arring p artie s , in the co u n try s id e a lo n g the ra ilro a d , ab o u n d . T h e p o p u lace o f the areas m anaged th e ir lives in the face o f these d e p r iv a tio n s , an d the ra ilro ad su rv iv ed .

T he book en d s w ith a sec tion on the p o st w a r era . T h e re w e see how the tro u b le d tim es o f the la te 1800’s a ffe c ted the fo rtu n es o f the M & C . A tten tio n is ca lled to the sh o rts ig h ted n e ss o f the m in o rity M & C sto c k h o ld e rs , and the u ltim ate d es tru c tio n o f the p ro fitab ility o f the ra ilro a d , until in 1897 it is ab so rb ed in to the S o u th ern R a ilw ay S y stem .

F o r ra ilro ad bu ffs th ere a re any n u m b er o f ra ilro ad firs ts that w ill su rp rise you as you read the "E x c ite m e n t" se c tio n . A nd fo r the C iv il W ar b u ffs , you w ill be p leasan tly su rp rised a t so m e o f the im p o rtan t e v en ts th a t tran sp ired a lo n g the M & C line. T h e book c o n ta in s a re fe ren ce sec tion an d c o m p o s ite ch a rts o f the lo co m o tiv e ro s te r o f the M & C fo r tho se lo o k in g fo r re fe ren ce m ate ria l.

R a ilro ad en th u s ia s ts and C iv il W ar b u ffs w ill w an t to add th is novel acco u n t o f the M em p h is and C h a rle s to n R a ilro ad to th e ir co llec tio n s .

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AAberdeen, Mississippi ................................................................70Academy for Academics and A rts......................................57, 58Adam Edgeworth Inn................................................................116Alabama & Tennessee R R ......................................................... 21Alabama Historical Commission............................................ 166Aldersgate United Methodist Church.....................................127Allen, Linda (Bayer).......................................................... 82, 156Allen, Ralph...................................................................... 154, 156All Weather................................................................................ 156American Railroad Journal.........5, 7 ,10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21AmSouth BanCorporation......................................................... 58Anderson, Aaron.............................................................53, 78-79Anderson, Richard W ................................................................185Arts Center................................................................................... 59Athens, A labam a.........................................................................22Auburn University.................................................................... 105A ugusta...........................................................................................5

Baldwin "Triumph" ..............................................................14, 18Barclay, Barbara & Jerry ......................................................... 156Bassett, Charles .........................................................................152Bean's C reek .................................................... 115, 183, 185, 187Beersheba................................................................................... 116B einvenu,Bud........................................................................... 156Belk's Building ............................................................................60Belle M in a .............................................................................24, 30Bell’s M ill.................................................................................. 114Benson, Mrs. A nn....................................................................... 73Big Spring P a rk .................................................................... 54, 68Blackwell, A lvin........................................................................156

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Blevin's Plumbing......................................................................156Boiling Fork M ill.......................................................................112Bolton, S u z i................................................................ 54, 110, 166Booth, L ou is ......................................................................169, 173Bosley, M aria............................................................................. 173Botanical Gardens..............................................95, 100-101, 103Boteler, B ecky............................................................................. 77Bradford, Henry C ........................................................................62Bradford Pear (tree).............................................................. 97-98Bradley, Suzanne & Scott.........................................................156Breakfield Point.........................................................................115B rick ...................................................................................169-170Broadfoot, Bob (Sr. & J r .) ....................................................... 156Broadfoot, S teve............................................................... 148, 156Brown Engineering....................................................................126Bubba's ......................................................................................... 60Bungalow....................................................................................140Burned Stand In n .......................................................................115Burritt Museum.......................................................................... 169Bury (E.) Company......................................................................14Butler, Rev. J. M .......................................................................... 71Butler (Sam) H ouse.................................................................. 151

CCampbell, Frances Rahn...........................................................127Capshaw........................................................................................ 48Carney, Tom & Elvis................................................................ 156Cavalry Hill Magnet School...................................................... 99Central Presbyterian Church.................................................... 124Chapman D airy............................................................................ 91Chapman, Governor........................................................ 88-89, 91Chapman House.............................................................. 56, 84-94

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C (continued)Chapman, Reuben....................................................................... 90Chapman School........................56, 58, 59, 68, 72, 77, 104, 105Charleston, South Carolina......................................... 4-5, 20, 21Charleston-New Orleans (style)............................ 167, 176-181Chase .................................................................... 3 ,45 ,46 ,47 ,4 8Chase R oad.................................................................................. 45Chattanooga............................................................................... 114Chickamauga............................................................................. 114Christenberry, W illiam .............................................................185Christian, Mr................................................................... 85-86, 92Church of the Nativity.................. 55, 56, 66, 67, 125, 136-139Church of the Visitation .......................................................... 125Church Street C hurch.................................................... 55, 70-73City Greenhouse......................................................................... 56Civil W a r......................................................... 29 ,80,88-89, 189Clark Reading............................................................................ 116Clines, K eith .............................................................................. 156Coldwater Spring...................................................................... 115Colonial Hills School.....................................................56, 59, 72Columbus, Georgia................................................................... 170"Comet," T h e ...............................................................................17Confederacy (ate) ................................ 63, 64, 75, 113, 114, 116Cooke, Ann D a y ....................................................................... 186Coperas C ave.............................................................................115Corder, K ellie ................................................................. 80,82,83Courtland, Alabama......................................6, 12-13, 21, 24, 27Crawford, J im .............................................................................. 15Crawford, Jam es......................................................................... 22Crockett, David & Polly .......................................................... 113Crow, David............................................................. 177, 179, 182Cruse A lley............................................................... 176, 177, 179Curtis, Veronica.......................................................................... 73

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Daly, Kyleen & Toney.............................................................. 156David, Azariah R ....................................................................... 187Decatur........................................ 5, 12, 13, 14, 15 ,21 ,22 ,23 ,24Decorator's Show House.............................................................82Depression....................................................................................91Deshler, D avid......................................................................... 7, 22Dilworth Lum ber................................................................ 37, 156Dilworth, Penn........................................................................... 156Dobravolsky, D on................................................................. 3, 189Dogwood (old).................................................................. 100-103Donegan H otel............................................................................. 37Dotts, Kathleen & Phil.............................................................. 156Downtown ....................................................................................59Duck River, Tennessee.............................................................112Dudley, Hugh........................................................................... 3,45Dunnavant's Department S tore.................................................. 59D uplex.......................................................................................... 57

Ealy, A ley .............................................................................. 66-67Earles, P a t ...................................................................................156Eastbrook Springs R esort................................................ 141-142East Huntsville Baptist Church............................................80-82Elk (R iver)..................................................................................115Elkton, Tennessee........................................................................ 22Elora, Tennesee........................................................................... 45Ely, Sandra & David................................................ I l l , 140-147Episcopal Convalescence Center.............................................116Estill Springs...............................................................................115Ezell, Mary Ann & G ene..........................................................156

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Falls Mill (Tennessee).................................... 183, 185, 187, 188Fanning, Jeremy................................................................105, 107Fearn 's...........................................................................................46Federal (style)................................................57, 64, 75, 111, 167Federal troops..............................................................................75First Baptist Church...................................................71, 123, 124First Methodist Church...................................................... 66, 125First Missionary Baptist Church................................................72First Presbyterian Church................................................ 110, 125Florence, Alabama......................................................... 22, 24, 28Florence Bridge Company............................................................7Forest, General...........................................................................116Fortune, Jessica........................................................ 53, 60, 74-75Francis, Marsha .................................................................... 74-75Francis, William C ....................................................................... 15Franklin County, Tennessee........................................... 112, 116Franklin County Historical Quarterly...........................114, 115"Fulton," T h e ..................................................................15-16,21

Gaines, Nancy & Jim ................................................................156Galloway, Lori.................................................................... 95, 102Galloway, M arnie...................................53, 68-69, 95, 102-103Gammill, Dr. Jam es................................................. 167, 183-187Geise, George .............................................................................. 15Georgia Railroad............................................................................5Gilliam, Catherine ........................................................................ 3Gonsolin, Adrian ..............................................................112, 115Goodloe, D. S ............................................................................... 13Gorin's...........................................................................................60Gothic G uild ..............................................................................166Gothic (style)................................................................67, 82, 137

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G (continued)Greek rev ival............................................................................... 57Greene S tree t............................................................................... 59Gresham, Batey (A nn)............................................. 176, 179, 182Gunter's Landing .........................................................................20G urley.....................................................................................24, 25Graves (Engineer)........................................................................ 15

HABS............................................................................................ 81H H F .............................................2 ,40 ,54 ,81 -82 , 110, 156, 166Halsey, C .H ....................................................................... 152, 168Halsey Grocery W arehouse....................................................... 59Halsey, W. L ............................................................................... 152Halsey-Yeatman A ddition....................................................... 168Hamburg......................................................................................... 5Hammonds, Janice.................................................................... 156Harless, Carol ................................................................................ 2Harbarger, Harvilee.................................................................. 177Harrison B rothers................................................2, 110, 166, 169Harrison, James B. & Daniel R ................................................152Harrison, Sarah M ......................................................................152Hengel, Jack............................................................................... 156Heritage C lub............................................................................... 60Heritage Room (HPL) ................................................... 56, 67, 73Hiley, M elissa............................................................................ 156Hill, Tillman .................................................................................47H illsboro....................................................................................... 24Historical preservation.............................................................. 167Hobbs Island.................................................................................45Holder, D ick .............................................................................. 185Hollywood............................................................................. 24, 25Holmes S tree t.............................................................................. 59

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Hope Community Church.......................................................... 72Howard, M elissa...................................................................53, 62Hubbard, David (M aj.)....................................................6, 13, 16Huff, Sarah Caldwell................................................................ 152Hummel, J. F .............................................................................. 110Hunt, John.................................................................................. 111Hundley H ouse.................................................................118, 122Huntsville, A labama................................. 22, 24, 26, 56, 57,91,

111,118,126,169Huntsville City Schools.............................................. 55, 58, 105Huntsville Depot

Freight depot & yard.................................. 2 ,3 , 33-38, 39-44Passenger d ep o t............................. 2, 3, 32,45, 50, 56, 74-75

Huntsville Hospital................................................................... 124Huntsville Hotel...........................................................................37Huntsville Housing Authority ...................................................64Huntsville Museum of A rt.................................................82, 122Huntsville Tim es...................................................... 42, 55, 75, 82Huntsville Times Building......................................................... 59

Jackson, Andrew....................................................................... 114Janey, William (miller)....................................................111-117Jernigan Hom e........................................................................... 114Joffrion, Em ile.............................................................................66Joffrion H all.................................................................................66Johnson, Adam & E rin ..................................................53, 76-77Johnson, D o t........................................... 53,55,84-91, 111, 183Johnson, K y le ............................................................................111Johnson, Lee & W illiam.......................................................... 156Johnson, Leonard & Terry......................................................... 77Johnson, M ildred...................................................................... 156

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Johnson, Warren L e e ................................................................ 156Jones, Harvie P ........................... 3 ,40, 55, 81-82, 136, 185, 186Jones, H ubert............................................................................. 156Jones, W illiam ........................................................................... 156Jump Off (Tennessee)............................................................... 115

KKaiser, G eorge............................................................................. 86Kamback, C arol.............................................................. 55, 56, 58Kamback, G reg ............................................................................ 55Kaylor, M ike.................................................................................82Keith Springs (Rowe Gap, Tennessee)...................................115Kemble, M r................................................................................... 18Kilbourn, D. L ee .......................................................................... 82King, Cyrus............................................................................ 78-79King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.................................................. 71-72"Kingston," T h e ........................................................................... 20Komara, J e f f .............................................................................. 128Kress Building............................................................................. 60Kurtz, Fletcher................................................................ 53, 78-79

La Grange (Tennessee)............................................................... 22Larkin C reek...............................................................................113Larkinville..............................................................................24, 25Lawson, J a c k ................................................................................15Lay, Elizabeth............................................................................ 137Lay, Henry C. (R ev.)........................................................136-137Leech, S arah ...............................................................................152Lewis, Bill ..................................................................................156Lewter's Hardware.....................................................................156Liddon H ouse ............................................................................ 167

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L (continued)Liddon, Sim & B arbera................................................... 168-175Lily Flagg & G old ie ................................................................... 89Lincoln Elementary School....................................56, 59, 76-77Lipscomb (family-Tennessee) .......................................185-187Lipscomb (house)....................................................167, 185-187Little Lion of Big Spring P ark ......................................2, 54, 110Littlepage, Dorothella.......................................................... 70-71Liverpool (England) ................................................................... 14Lumpkin Stained G lass................................... 123, 124, 126-135Lumpkin, W ayne..................................................... I l l , 118,156

Mad River Woodworks ........................................................... 156M adison........................................................................ 24, 31, 124Madison County .......................................................... 47, 91, 111Madison P ik e ..................................................... 95, 100, 102-103Madison Street..................................................................118-119Mann and David M ills..............................................................185Mann, Robert N ew ton..............................................................187Maple Hill Cem etery................................................................111Marchelos, Dr. G eorge.............................................................110Maroney, Mickey........................................................................ 93Marsh, Louise............................................................................151Martin, Nancy & Randy .......................................................... 156Maysville Road..................................................................... 80, 91McCormick, C yrus..................................................................... 78McCormick House...................................................53, 56, 78-79McCormick, Virginia..................................................................78McCracken, L aura .................................................................... 152Mclnnis, Rosemary..................................................................... 82McLeroy, Allison........................................53,95, 102, 104,105McLeroy, D enis........................................................................ 102

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M (continued)McMillion, P a t............................................................................. 57McWilliams, John L .................................................................... 22Meiers-Edwards House............................................................. 167Meiers, Fred & A nne................................................................ 176Memphis and Charleston (M & C).............. 3, 4-5 , 7, 23, 24, 27,

3 3 ,3 7 ,3 9 ,4 3 ,4 8 ,5 0 ,7 4 , 189Memphis & LaGrange RR (Tennessee) ...................................23Memphis Eagle .............................................................................. 5Memphis, Tennessee .....................................................................4Mercury ..................................................................................46, 48Merrill, B raham ........................................................................... 22Merrill, K evin ............................................................................ 156Miller, Kevin .....................................................................155, 156M ississippi..................................................................................4-5Monroe, Fred & Irene...................................................... 151, 156Monroe Office Supply Building................................................59Monteagle Assembly G rounds................................................116M ontgomery.................................................................................20Moore, Jonathan ........................................................................156Moores Mill Road........................................................................46Morgan, General........................................................................116Movable Feast............................................................................ 166Mud C reek ....................................................................................31Mullen, Jo h n .............................................................................. 156Muscle Shoals.................................................................................5Muscle Shoals Missionary Baptist Church...............................70Muscle Shoals RR C lub.............................................................. 45

NC & St.L Railway .............................................................. 47, 48Nance, B ill..................................................................................170Napier Iron W orks......................................................................... 9

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N (continued)Nashville and Chattanooga........................................... 4, 26, 189National Register of Historic Places......................................... 81Neely, W illiam...........................................................................156New M arket................................................................................. 45Nguyen, T h o ................................................................... 55, 84, 94Nickajack................................................................................... 114Noblitt, Anne & Lipscom b............................................. 185, 187Norfolk & Southern......................................2, 39 ,40 ,42 ,43 , 49North Alabama Railroad Museum................................. 3, 45-50North A labam ian...........................................................................7Northwood subdivision...............................................................99

OOak P lace..................................................... 53, 55, 56, 80-83, 93Oak Ridge, Tennessee.............................................................. 142Oakwood C ollege....................................................................... 72Oakwood R oad ..................................................................... 85, 92O'Connor, Suzanne.................................................................2, 54Old Salem (Tennessee)........................................... 167, 185, 187Old Salem Stage Coach Inn ..................................................... 114Old South Plum bing................................................................. 156Old T ow n..................................................................................... 58O'Shaughnessy, M. J ................................................................... 78

Paint Rock.................................................................................... 24Palladian (style)....................................................... 177, 179, 181Palladian window ..................................................................... 144Parrish, K ay ............................................................................... 156Patrick, John R........................................................................... 185Patton, Elizabeth....................................................................... 113Penland Arts & Crafts School ................................................. 128

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P (continued)"Pennsylvania," T h e .............................................................16-17Perrella, R obert.......................................................................... 128Petty, M r......................................................................................114Petty Point...................................................................................115Pittman, G a il.............................................................................. 173Pittman, G eorge........................................................................... 15Polariod Corporation.................................................................. 58Pongpakdee, Teela............................................................105,106Poplar Hill A ddition................................................................. 152Prout, Mary Lee & L ee ............................................................. 156Pulaski, Tennessee.......................................................................22

Queen Anne (style).................................................. 72, 75, 79, 82

Rachielles, W. A .........................................................................185Reeves, C edric............................................................................. 79Reeves, Jam es.............................................................................. 78Richardson, Ellen............................................................ 80, 82-83Ridley H all....................................................................................66Rippling Water Plantation Stage Coach H ouse.....................114Roberts, Frances C ...............................................................67, 111Robertson Expedition............................................................... 114Robinson, B. J ..................................................................2, 54, 110"Rocket," T h e ...............................................................................15Rocky Springs Stage Coach In n ..............................................113Rodes, H olly ....................................................................53 ,60,70R o of.............................................................................................174Rosalie Ridge......................................................................... 84-85Rosecran's Arm y............................................................... 114, 116Roto-Rooter................................................................................156

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R (continued)Russell's Iron W orks..................................................................... 9Russellville, A labama................................................................... 9Ryan, P a t..........................................................................2, 54, 110

Saint Claire In n .......................................................................... 116Salem (Tennessee), "Old"................................................111,113Sanders, Hattie "Bell"...............................................................114Sanderson, L ee...........................................................................156Santa F e ........................................................................................24Schremsher, T im ............................................................... 169, 173Scott, Jane .................................................................................. 156Scottsboto..............................................................................24, 26Scruggs, Dr. Julius...................................................................... 72Seeley, M ark................................................................................ 68Self, Mancil ............................................................................... 156Sesquicentennial History o f the

Church o f the Nativity....................................................67, 111Sewanee (Tennessee)................................................................116Shadows on the Wall................................................................... 63Sharpe, Mary .............................................................................116Sherrod, B en ...............................................................6, 12-13, 22Simmons, Peter..........................................................................185Simmons' Home........................................................................ 113Smith-Holland Gallery ........................................................ 59-60Smith S tree t...............................................................................140Snodgrass, Mrs. Horace....................................................... 71, 73Snodgrass, Rev.............................................................................72Southern Advocate (Huntsville)...................................................5Southern RR .................................................... 13, 39, 45,47, 189Spencer, Guy ................................................................................. 3St. Clair, Jim (Mr. & M rs.)............................................. 122-123

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St. Mary's R etrea t......................................................................116Stained Glass (Huntsville)...............................................118-139Stained g la ss .............................................................................. 172Starkey, Jam ey........................................................................... 156Steele, George Gilliam .................................................. 80-82, 93Steele Street Baptist Church...................................................... 70Stephens, E lise............................................................55, 167, 183Stevenson, A labam a.............................................. 3 ,4 , 24, 26, 31Stone, L inda............................................................................... 156Supreme Court (Alabama)..........................................................23Sweeden's C ove.........................................................................115

Temple B'nai Sholom ............................................................... 125Tennessee.................................................................................... 173Tennessee River....................................5, 6-7, 10-11, 12, 21, 28Tennessee Valley Railroad.........................................................22Tennessee Velley Railroad M useum ........................................ 45Tide-water type..........................................................................186Tiffany, Louis C. (glass).................................................. 120-121Town C reek .....................................................................13, 24,29Trade D ay .................................................................................2, 54Travelers R est............................................................................ 116Trinity, Alabama................................................................... 24, 30Trinity Church (M obile)...........................................................137"Triumph," T he............................................................................ 18Tucker, Oscar (Rev.) .................................................................. 71Turnpike Spring......................................................................... 115Tuscum bia........................................ 5-15, 19-23, 24, 28-29, 30Tuscumbia, Courtland & Decatur R R .......................12-14, 189Twickenham ......................................................................168, 176Twickenham D istrict................................................................ 166

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UU.A.H. (University of Alabama in Huntsville) .......................55Union d ep o t................................................................................. 46Union forces .......................................................... 29, 63, 66, 116University of the South............................................................ 116

Vahalla Memory Gardens........................................................ 127Vann, Mack III ............................................................................48Vann, U rsala.............................................................................. 128Van Valkenburgh H ouse......................................................... 121Van Valkenburgh, N ancy....................................................81, 82Vanzant, Mrs.............................................................................. 114Venable H otel..............................................................................37Victorian (style)....................... 57, 118, 120-123, 124-125, 169Vincent, Callie........................................................................... 156Von Braun Civic C enter.............................................................59

Walker, General........................................................................ 116Ward, L e e .................................................................................. 156Weber, C huck.......................................53,55, 95-101, 102-103Webster, Burt............................................................................. 156Weeden House................................................................ 53, 55, 56Weeden, H ow ard..................................................................63, 64Weeden, Jane Urquhart W atkins.............................................. 63Weeden, Kate........................................................................ 63, 64Weeden, Mr.................................................................................. 63Wheeler, General...................................................................... 116White S treet...................................................................... 148, 168Wilburn, Kathryn........................................................... 53, 84, 94Williams, A nna............................................................................57Wills and Dudley (architects).................................................. 137

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W (continued)Winchester Home Journal........................................................116Winchester Normal School...................................................... 116Winchester Springs........................................................... 115-116Withers, Augustine......................................................... 88-89, 92Womack, K atherine.................................................................. 152Woodville, A labama................................................................... 24Works by Wayne Lumpkin..............................................129-135

Yarbrough H otel....................................................................59, 60Yazoo, Mississippi............................................................170, 175Yeatman, J. R ..................................................................... 152,168

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