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As a center of the planter elite class, Barbour County has produced more Alabama governors than any other county in the state. Six elected governors as well as two acting governors have lived in the county.
Dec 25, 2012 · The Barbour County Governors’ Trail was designated by legislative act in 2000 to recognize those from Barbour County who served as Alabama governors. These governors include John Gill Shorter (1861-1863), William Dorsey Jelks (1901-1907), Braxton Bragg Comer (1907-1911), Chauncey M. Sparks (1943-1947), George Corley Wallace (1963-1967, 1971 ...
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Jan 16, 2022 · In 1973, the legendary bass swallowed a strawberry jelly worm in Lake Eufaula and thereafter lived in a bait shop live tank until his death in 1980. More than 800 folks attended Leroy’s funeral ...
Aug 16, 2023 · Upshaw, age 52, lives in Eufaula. He was sentenced to 10 years split to serve three years in the Alabama Department of Corrections for violating Alabama’s Ethics laws. The court ordered that Upshaw serve his three-year sentence in Barbour County Community Corrections – avoiding prison time. The court also ordered him to pay a $30,000 fine.
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A historical marker in Barbour County, Alabama, erected in 1979, describes the 1874 Eufaula Massacre as a “riot.”. Within minutes, 400 shots had been fired, leaving at least six Black people dead and injuring as many as 80 people.8 Many survivors fled, including an estimated 500 Black people who had not yet voted.9 One Black man who ...
Many planters were moving into the county, and by the year 1858, Barbour county had within its limits 12,000 slaves, valued at $8,000,000, and 525,000 acres of land, valued at $8.00 per acre, making $4,200,00, and town lots, valued at $550,000—making a grand total of wealth amounting to $12,770,000.
Mar 27, 2023 · The term “Eufaula Regency” made its first appearance in the historiography of the secession movement with the publication of Lewy Dorman’s Party Politics in Alabama From 1850-1860 in 1935. He also mentioned the group in his history of Barbour County, which was completed in 1932 but not published until 2006.
