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| |  | | | George Chauncey Sparks (October 8, 1884 � November 6, 1968), known as Chauncey Sparks, was an attorney and Democratic American politician who served as the 41st Governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947. He made improvements to state education of whites and expanded the state schools and centers for agriculture. He campaigned for passage of the Boswell Amendment to the state constitution, which was designed to keep blacks disfranchised following the US Supreme Court ruling Smith v. Allwright (1944... |
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| |  | | | The Shorter Mansion is an Classical Revival-style historic house museum in Eufaula, Alabama. The two-story masonry structure was built in 1884 by Eli Sims Shorter II and his wife, Wileyna Lamar Shorter. They extensively remodeled the house from 1901 to 1906, with the results of that effort being the facade that is seen today. Eli Sims Shorter died in 1908, but his wife resided in the house until 1927, when it was passed to their daughter, Fannie Shorter Upshaw. It was in turn inherited by Upshaw... |
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| |  | ACF River Basin, Chattahoochee River, Dams in Georgia (U.S. state), United States Army Corps of Engineers dams, Reservoirs in Alabama, Reservoirs in Georgia (U.S. state), Landforms of Barbour County, Alabama, Landforms of Henry County, Alabama, Landforms of Russell County, Alabama, Protected areas of Quitman County, Georgia, Protected areas of Stewart County, Georgia, Protected areas of Henry County, Alabama, Protected areas of Clay County, Georgia, Landforms of Clay County, Georgia, Landforms o... | | The Walter F. George Lake, named for Walter F. George (1878�1957), a United States Senator from Georgia, is formed on the Chattahoochee River along the state line between Alabama and Georgia. It is also widely known by the name, Lake Eufaula � particularly in Alabama, where the state legislature passed a resolution on June 25, 1963, to give the lake that name. The 46,000-acre lake extends north about 85 miles (140 km) from the Walter F. George Lock and Dam (31°37�10�N 85°4�15�W ... |
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| |  | | | Florence Marina State Park is a 173-acre (0.70 km²) Georgia state park located near Omaha on the eastern shore of Walter F. George Lake. The park is known for its deep-water marina and its water recreation sports, such as fishing and waterskiing. The park also attracts bird-watchers with the chance of seeing herons, egrets, and possibly bald eagles. The park is home to the Kirbo Interpretive Center, which teaches visitors about Native Americans and displays snakes, turtles, fish, and other arti... |
| |  | National Register of Historic Places in Barbour County, Alabama, Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama, Italianate architecture in Alabama, Houses completed in 1860, Historic house museums in Alabama, Museums in Barbour County, Alabama, Alabama State Historic Sites, Houses in Barbour County, Alabama, Alabama Registered Historic Place stubs, Southern United States museum stubs, Alabama building and structure stubs, Hidden categories:, Coordinates on Wikidata, All stub arti... | | Fendall Hall, also known as the Young�Dent Home, is an Italianate-style historic house museum in Eufaula, Alabama. The two-story wood-frame structure, with a symmetrical villa-type floor-plan and crowning cupola, was built between 1856 and 1860 by Edward Brown Young and his wife, Ann Fendall Beall. It remained in the Young family for five generations, passing to the builders� daughter, Anna Beall Young, and her husband, Stouten Hubert Dent in the 1879. It was added to the National Register o... |
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| |  | | | The Glenn-Thompson House (also known as Cedar Heights Plantation) is a historic residence near Pittsview in Russell County, Alabama. The house was built in 1837, five years after the Treaty of Cusseta which ceded Muscogee lands to the United States. It was built by Massilon McKendree Glenn, son of the founder of nearby Glennville, and an academic who was the president of the Board of Trustees of the Glennville Female Academy. Glenn traded the house and its lands to a nearby planter named George ... |
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| |  | | | Providence Canyon State Park is a 1,003 acres (4.06 km2; 1.57 sq mi) state park located in Stewart County in southwest Georgia. The park contains Providence Canyon, which is sometimes called Georgias Little Grand Canyon. It is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia. Providence Canyon actually is not a purely natural feature � the massive gullies (the deepest being 150 feet) were caused by erosion due to poor farming practices in the 19th century. It is also home to the ve... |
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| |  | | | The Apalachicola Fort Site is an archaeological site near Holy Trinity, Alabama, United States. Spain established a wattle and daub blockhouse here on the Chattahoochee River in 1690, in an attempt to maintain influence among the Lower Creek Indians. These tribes had rejected Spanish missionaries and were trading with the English. The fort was used for one year and then destroyed by the Spanish when they abandoned the site. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The site is curren... |
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