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McCalla Branch

26 Friday Apr 2024

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McCalla Branch

On 26 September 1937. the McCalla Branch of The Church Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized under the direction of Elder Theron W. Borup at the James Wesley Brackner Home on this site. Approximately fifty people were present at this meeting. Twenty years prior to the organization of the McCalla Branch, Home Sunday School was held in this and other homes in this area. Near this site in the Hicks Spring Creek. baptisms were performed beginning in 1920.

The organization of this McCalla Branch of the Southern States Mission was the beginning of the rapid growth of the church In this area.

This monument stands as a reminder of the great faith and sacrifice of those early Saints and as an endearing symbol of the rich heritage that has blessed the lives of their posterity and which will continue for generations to come.

Marker placed in 1987 by the Bessemer First Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in McCalla, Alabama.

Verbena, Alabama

23 Thursday Feb 2017

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(from Wikipedia)Verbena, also known as Summerfield, is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States. Named for the indigenous flower, Verbena developed into a popular resort location for the more affluent citizenry of Montgomery, the state’s capital, during the yellow fever outbreaks of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many stately homes, some of which have undergone recent renovation and restoration, line the streets of the town as a reminder of this historic past.

The town was built beside the railroad currently owned by CSX Transportation. In its heyday, Verbena had two hotels, a bank, a post office, and a general store. Many of those buildings are gone or boarded up today, but the Verbena United Methodist Church still stands on County Road 59 near the town’s center.

According to the U.S. Census in 1890, Verbena showed a population of 756, making it the largest community in Chilton County at that time.

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Wetumpka Impact Crater

11 Sunday Sep 2016

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Wetumpka Impact Crater

The ridges located here are the remnants of a six-mile diameter circular feature created some 85 million years ago by an estimated 1,000-foot diameter asteroid. The area at the time of impact was a shallow sea. The ridges consist of a variety of metamorphic rocks and surround a central area comprised of large jumbled blocks of younger geologic strata. Drilling in the central area of the crater recovered fragments of rocks showing characteristic mineral alteration only associated with impact structures. The structure, although known for more than a century, was first identified as an impact crater in the 1970s.

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