Birding Marengo County

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Birding | Outdoor Recreation

Home to beautiful cities like Demopolis and fascinating locations like the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Marengo County is also home to the rich soil that the area is named for. Consequently, it is rich with diverse animal and plant life, making it a wonderful place to search for birds at places like Chickasaw State Park, the Dempolis River Walk, Foscue Creek Park, and Spillway Falls Park.

Bluff Hall

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical | Museum | Shopping

Bluff Hall is located in Demopolis high on White Bluff  (Ecor Blanc) on the Tombigbee River where the band of French exiles landed in 1817. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter, Sarah Serena Glover, and her husband, Francis Stro …

Canterbury Hunting Lodge

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Outdoor Recreation

The staff at Canterbury Hunting Lodge wants you to have the hunt of a lifetime. There is no better place to share quality time with your family or friends than in the woods on a cool, crisp fall or winter morning or in the spring when the turkeys are g …

Chickasaw State Park

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Birding | Camping | Outdoor Recreation

Chickasaw State Park consists of 520+ acres, of which several acres are open mature mixed pine-oak woodland. The majority of the Park has been converted into the Turnipseed-Ikenberry Physically Disabled Hunting Area, all of which is on the west side of …

Deer Smith

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Outdoor Recreation

Deer Smith is a hunting, fishing, and wildlife management company. We specialize in designing custom hunting and fishing adventures throughout the Black Belt. We create adventures to specifically meet our clients’ criteria. We also work with landowners …

Demopolis Public Library

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find:

Located in Demopolis, Alabama, the public library offers resources for students, children, and adults. The library also holds events for the area throughout the year. For more information visit http://www.demopolislibrary.info/or https://www.facebook.c …

Demopolis River Walk

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Birding | Outdoor Recreation

The Demopolis River Walk is among the most open and accessible birding sites in the state. A paved path along the banks of the Tombigbee River, it has planted shrubs and small hardwood trees along its course. There are also several benches and a shelte …

Demopolis Yacht Basin

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Dining | Outdoor Recreation

The Demopolis Yacht Basin is a full service marina at Demopolis, AL on the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway.  It has in-water and dry storage for boats and an on-site restaurant and motel.  The Demopolis Yacht Basin is located beside Highway 43 on the nort …

Driving Tour of Demopolis

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical | Trips

Demopolis is located at the confluence of the Tombigbee River and Black Warrior River atop a chalk cliff, known locally as White Bluff. The settlement was founded and named by a group of political exiles who had been banished from France following the …

Foscue Creek Park

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Birding | Camping | Outdoor Recreation

Foscue Creek Park is located at Demopolis, AL on the forested lake shore of Demopolis Lake, the largest lake on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway. This beautiful park is managed by the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers. It has 54 campsites, all of which …

Gaineswood National Historic Landmark

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical

Between 1843 and 1861, Nathan Bryan Whitfield transformed a dogtrot cabin into what we know as Gaineswood. Whitfield was his own designer, taking ideas from architectural books of the day and from his travels. His son Bryan Watkins Whitfield helped in …

Kingfisher Bay Marina

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Outdoor Recreation

Kingfisher Bay Marina offers a dock level boater’s laundry, restroom, and shower facility, as well as a boater’s gathering area, free cable TV, wireless internet, golf cart rentals, walking trails, an outdoor pool, and more!

Laird Cottage/Geneva Mercer Museum

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical | Museum

Stop by and visit this restored circa 1870 residence/cottage with Greek Revival/Italianate style. It’s the headquarters of the Marengo County Historical Society. The museum houses history and works of Geneva Mercer, an artist, sculptor and Marengo nati …

Lyon Hall

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical | Trips

Lyon Hall is a  Greek Revival residence that was built from 1850 to 1853. The site is also available for rentals and is wheelchair accessible.

Mama Nem’s Pepper Jelly

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Dining | Shopping

Mama Nem’s Pepper Jelly is homemade at the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston from a time-tested, local recipe. Made from peppers grown on-site, Mama Nem’s Pepper Jelly can be combined with cream cheese, mixed into salad dressings, as a glaze on ham or …

Marengo County Driving Tour: Architecture

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Architectural | Historical | Trips

Demopolis On March 3, 1817, Congress passed an Act which paved the way for the settling of Demopolis by a group of political exiles who had been banished from France by King Louis XVIII following the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. The act granted fo …

Marengo County History and Archive Museum

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical | Museum

Visit the Marengo County History Museum to learn about the history, culture, and people of Marengo County.

Soggy Bottom Lodge

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Camping | Outdoor Recreation | Trips

Soggy Bottom Lodge is ready to host you, your family or friends, and even corporate events. Everything is first-class and top of the line with the most luxurious accommodations available. Our goal is for you and your party to have the most memorable ti …

The Alabama Rural Heritage Center

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Arts & Culture | Shopping

The Alabama Rural Heritage Center is located on Hwy 25 in Thomaston,  located in a building designed by the famous Auburn Rural Studio. This building was the former Home Economics Building of Marengo County High School. It houses an art gallery featuri …

Trinity Episcopal Church

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical

Trinity Episcopal Church was founded in 1834 and is the third oldest church in the Diocese of Alabama. The congregation met in homes and a small log building until 1850 when a frame building was constructed on this lot given by the Lyon family. Federal …

Tucker’s Treasures: Antiques

Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Shopping

Tucker’s Treasures is truly an out of the way treasure in Southwest Alabama. Located between Nanafalia and Myrtlewood in the southern part of Marengo County, it is hard to find, but worth the effort. It has four warehouses full of antiques, collectible …