More Southern History.........

Dear Journal,

I have posted a few pictures of my nephew's cake and some pics of him at the party that was held for him at his parent's house last Saturday evening.  They had a cookout for him and then birthday cake and ice cream.  We had a wonderful time, except for the mosquito bites!!!!  The only presents he got was moola, but I guess you can see from his big smile in the photos, he didn't seem to mind a bit.

I had to go to my doctor who is in Auburn, AL today.  Had to pick up a prescription and make an appointment for next week for a checkup concerning my medications.  Living in the country in east central Alabama, almost on the Georgia/Alabama Line, I have access to doctors in Valley, Opelika, and Auburn, as well as Phenix City, AL and Columbus, GA.  We had to travel through Opelika to get to Auburn, so we stopped and got some pictures.

I am truly a history buff, so this was fun for me.  I stopped and got photos of what used to be Opelika Manufacturing Company.  When I was a little girl, my grandfather worked as a security guard here.  He was originally from Uchee and my grandmother was from Tallassee.  My grandparents lived about two blocks from the mill, so he could have walked to work if he had wanted to.  My granddaddy had polio as a little boy and it left one leg shorter than the other so he had to walk with a cane.

After I took the photos, I got to thinking about it and remembered when the mill had windows all across the front.  I even remember when they bricked up all of the windows, but really never knew why.

I got a couple of photos of some churches in the area.  The architecture on the Presbyterian church is really lovely.  The other church I photographed just because it looked like a little old country church.  I cannot remember the name, but it is across from the old abandoned mill.

I took my daughter to the spot where I went to school in the 7th grade.  I said spot because the school is no longer there, it was torn downsadly.  The architecture was quite beautiful.  There is a memorial there erected in honor of it now and the Brownfield House was also moved to this site (photos included).  Every time a new high school was built in the area, the junior high would get the old high school building.

I also got a picture of the newly restored Salem-Shotwell covered bridge.  It was in the community of Salem, AL, but several years ago a large tree fell during a storm and completely demolished the bridge knocking it into the Wacoochee river.  The link below shows what the bridge looked like before the storm and how badly the tree smashed the bridge during the storm.

http://www.opelikahighschools.org/id229.html

Alabama has lots of history and I have enjoyed sharing a small portion of it.

Later,

Susan