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UA archeologists continue work to piece together Old Cahawba
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UA archeologists continue work to piece together Old Cahawba

  • By Todd Prater

Imagine putting together a jigsaw puzzle with hundreds of pieces, but none have regular shapes, many pieces are missing and there is no picture to guide you.  That is what Leslie Mashburn from The University of Alabama Office of Archaeological Research is doing at Old Cahawba Archaeological Park. But the puzzle he is putting together […]

Selma residents organize to clean cemeteries as city layoffs drag on
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Selma residents organize to clean cemeteries as city layoffs drag on

  • By Cindy Fisher

During Easter weekend, many families take time to visit the graves of their loved ones.  But some visitors who went to Selma’s famous Live Oak Cemetery last weekend said they were shocked to find their family’s grave sites in poor condition, according to posts on social media sites.  “I went to visit the gravesite of […]

Old Cahawba cemetery tour in Orrville available in March
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Old Cahawba cemetery tour in Orrville available in March

  • By Nathan Prewett

In March, a tour of three Old Cahawba cemeteries will be held on Old Cahawba Road in Orrville. Presented by the Alabama Civil War Heritage Trails, the tour will examine “Old Cahawba’s three cemeteries tell many stories,” states the event page. “Imposing monuments of antebellum social and economic elite, plain memorial stones of Union army […]