Figure 5-44. William Barrett Travis house, Claiborne, Monroe County, built ca. 1820-1826; HABS draw<strong>in</strong>gby John N. Brown, Jr., Holmes & Holmes Architects (courtesy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Historic American Build<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>Survey</strong>,ALA, 50-CLAB.3- 00001a).Figure 5-45. Perdue Hill Masonic Hall, moved from Claiborne, Monroe County (courtesy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> HistoricAmerican Build<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>Survey</strong>, ALA, 50-PERHI.1-1 005868pu).137
1 Thomas McAdory Owen, History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong> and Dictionary <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong> Biography (Chicago, IL: S. J. ClarkePublish<strong>in</strong>g Company, 1921). Information regard<strong>in</strong>g Monroe County was found <strong>in</strong> 2:1032; Conecuh County 1:315.2 “<strong>Alabama</strong> Legislative Acts,” <strong>Alabama</strong> Legislature, First Territorial Session January-February 1818, ApprovedFebruary 3, 1818, 96, accessed, August 9, 2011,http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/history/acts_and_journals/Acts_1818_Jan-Feb/Page11_pgs_91-100.html.3 Samuel F. Bloomfield, “Description <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Road</strong> Cowetah to Tombeckby River” [1806], Joseph Wheaton Papers,Ms 1124, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University <strong>of</strong> Georgia, A<strong>the</strong>ns.4 “<strong>Alabama</strong> Onl<strong>in</strong>e Cultural Resource Database,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessedAugust 9, 2011; “Phase I <strong>Survey</strong>s,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessed August 9, 2011.5 James Stuart, Three Years <strong>in</strong> North America, <strong>in</strong> Two Volumes, Volume II (Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh: Pr<strong>in</strong>ted for Robert Cadell,1833), 217-221.6 Thomas S. Woodward, Woodward’s Rem<strong>in</strong>iscences <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Creek, or Muscogee Indians (Montgomery, AL: Barrett& Wimbish, 1859), 84-85.7 Gregory A. Waselkov, A Conquer<strong>in</strong>g Spirit: Fort Mims and <strong>the</strong> Redstick War <strong>of</strong> 1813-1814 (Tuscaloosa:University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong> Press, 2006), 58, 97-100, 264, 282, 302.8 John Buckner Little, The History <strong>of</strong> Butler County, <strong>Alabama</strong> from 1815-1855 (C<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>nati, OH: Elm Street Pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gCompany, 1885), 59-62.9 Brantley, Early Settlers, 116-117; “The Legacy <strong>of</strong> Burnt Corn,” Legacy (Spr<strong>in</strong>g/Summer, 1997):1-4.10 Thomas Owen, History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong> and Dictionary, IV: 1730; Brantley, Early Settlers, 7,100.11 William Garrett, Rem<strong>in</strong>iscences <strong>of</strong> Public Men <strong>in</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong> (Atlanta: Plantation Publish<strong>in</strong>g Company’s Press,1872), 282; Brantley, Early Settlers, 99.12 Brantley, Early Settlers, 102.13 “The <strong>Alabama</strong> Register <strong>of</strong> Landmarks and Heritage,” <strong>Alabama</strong> Historical Commission, The State HistoricalPreservation Office, last updated August 25, 2011, http://preserveala.org/ARdigital/<strong>Alabama</strong>_Register_List<strong>in</strong>g.pdf.14 Stuart, Three Years <strong>in</strong> North America, 217.15 “Conecuh County Census Returns for 1820,” <strong>Alabama</strong> Historical Quarterly 6:3 (1944): 366.16 “<strong>Alabama</strong> Onl<strong>in</strong>e Cultural Resource Database,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessedAugust 9, 2011.17 Reverend B. F. Riley, History <strong>of</strong> Conecuh County, <strong>Alabama</strong> (Columbus: GA: Thos. Gilbert, Steam Pr<strong>in</strong>ter andBook-B<strong>in</strong>der, 1881), 30, 60-61, 113-114.18 “<strong>Alabama</strong> Onl<strong>in</strong>e Cultural Resource Database,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessedAugust 9, 2011; “Phase I <strong>Survey</strong>s,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessed August 9, 2011.19 Brantley, Early Settlers, 13-17.20 Ibid.,15.21 Deanie Humphrey, “Monroe, Al 1850 <strong>Federal</strong> Census,” website accessed August 9, 2011,http://www.track<strong>in</strong>gyourroots.com/data/1850monroecensus.htm22 Brantley, Early Settlers, 10.23 Ibid., 13; Brantley believes <strong>the</strong> store opened around 1816. The tractbook <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong> landowners found on <strong>the</strong>State <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong>’s Government Records website, http://www.sos.alabama.gov/vb/<strong>in</strong>quiry/<strong>in</strong>quiry.aspx?area=Lands,reports that Holley owned <strong>the</strong> land <strong>in</strong> 1855. The Bureau <strong>of</strong> Land Management, General Land Office Record’swebsite, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx, dates Holley’s land patent to 1858.24 “1820 State Census, Names <strong>of</strong> Head <strong>of</strong> Household for Conecuh County” Ancestry, accessed August 9, 2011,http://www.rootsweb.com/~alconecu/1820Con.txt.25 Brantley, Early Settlers, 13.26 Little, The History <strong>of</strong> Butler County, 29.27 Col<strong>in</strong> MacGuire, “A Historical Stop,” <strong>Alabama</strong> Sunday Magaz<strong>in</strong>e (September 29, 1968):1-4.28 “<strong>Alabama</strong> Onl<strong>in</strong>e Cultural Resource Database,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessedSeptember 22, 2011; “Phase I <strong>Survey</strong>s,” Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Archaeological</strong> Research, secure website accessed September 22,2011.29 “Report <strong>of</strong> David Mitchell, Agent for Indian Affairs, December 10, 1818,” Treaty <strong>of</strong> Fort Jackson 1814, SpecialActs, Records <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong> Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives and RecordsAdm<strong>in</strong>istration, Silver Spr<strong>in</strong>gs, MD.30 J. F. H. Claiborne, Life and Times <strong>of</strong> Gen. Sam Dale, <strong>the</strong> Mississippi Partisan (New York, NY: Harper &Bro<strong>the</strong>rs, 1860), 134-136; H.S. Halbert, and T. H. Ball, The Creek War <strong>of</strong> 1813 and 1814 (Chicago, IL: Donohue &138
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