Furman, AL History Celebration & Driving Tour

January 10, 2011 Comments Off

This beautiful antebellum home, located in the Furman community, is built in a one-of-a-kind Steamboat Gothic style.

The Furman Civic Club sponsoring this celebration of Small towns in Alabama on April 17, 2011, and the subsequent driving tour of homes, churches, schools, and other historic sites in this east Wilcox County town. Furman was designated a National Historic District in 1999 along with the nearby towns of Pine Apple and Oak Hill. Featured homes include “Wakefield”, the classic steamboat gothic house featured in the book Silent in the Land, the Moore-Burson-Rushing Home, the Watson-Pryor-Moorer Home, “Patience Plantation”, the Purifoy-Lipscomb home featured in Kathryn Tucker Windham’s Thirteen Ghosts of Alabama and Jeffrey, “Fox Hill”, restored by Don and Katrina Bell, the McCondichie-Stabler Home, the Palmer-Barlow-Britt Home, and the Perdue-Estes Home. In addition, Bethsaida Baptist Church, Furman Methodist Church, Hopewell Church, Snow Hill Institute, Palmer Cemetery, Old Snow Hill Cemetery, Snow Hill Cemetery, and Purifoy Cemetery are included on this tour.

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Furman, AL History Celebration & Driving Tour

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