· August 7, 2026
Albion Benton Green
Managed the Blount Springs resort day to day for Walter Melville “Mel” Drennen, until it burned on June 3, 1915. […]
Glossary Type: Person
· August 7, 2026
Joseph Bondurant
Manager of the Hotel at Blount Springs by 1841, when it was already advertising a full season: a live band […]
· August 7, 2026
Leslie Kelley
Led construction of Smoke Rise‘s roads and water systems, eventually laying out more than 200 homesites and 14 miles of […]
· August 7, 2026
Welton Carter
Of Welton Carter Real Estate, Inc., later Blanton-Carter Properties - the primary lot seller driving Smoke Rise‘s growth from 1975 […]
· August 7, 2026
Noel C. Turner, Robert L. Foreman Jr., and Hugh A. Nash
Founded the Smoke Rise Development Corporation in 1968, with plans for a full-amenity community: schools, shopping, recreation. Appears in: The […]
· August 7, 2026
Curtis Standridge
Privately owned the Standridge Bridge; his family had farmed that bend of the Locust Fork for generations. The bridge led […]
· August 7, 2026
Warner Floyd
Executive director of the Alabama Historic Commission. After the Standridge Bridge burned in November 1967, he said it had been […]
· August 7, 2026
Rev. Edward Gordan Musgrove
Born 1844, died 1908 - a third son of Rev. Phillip McCarty Musgrove, making two reverends in one generation of […]
· August 7, 2026
Rev. Garland Elisha Armstrong
Born 17 August 1847, died 4 November 1915 - the first dated, documented Armstrong found among Rockland/Hayden‘s six founding families, […]
· August 7, 2026
Rev. Joel J. Blackburn
Born 12 December 1794, died 18 February 1873 - son of Rev. James Archibald Blackburn, and the second generation of […]