A lot of new families are pouring into Auburn, coming with great glimmer in their eye of the world that was aborning in the Blackbelt. And, some of those families were going to become really significance in the early history of the church. Listen to Part 5 of our Thursday evening series on A History…
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Back in the early part of the nineteenth century, when Alabama was just an infant state, people poured in this place—part of the great stream of immigrants pouring into America from all over the world, and part of the stream of poor people just coming farther and farther south and west until finally they wound-up…
Between 1861 and 1865, one in five white Alabama males of military age lost their lives to disease or combat. East Alabama Male College shut its doors. First Baptist Church, which met only once a month, became a Confederate military hospital. Whether one believes in miracles, lots of Confederate soldiers wounded in the defense of…
East Central Alabama was the cow’s tail for Baptists in the state. Until the Second Creek War in the mid 1830s, white settlement spread from Mobile to Huntsville and from the Coosa/Tallapoosa Rivers to the Tombigbee. But the area to the east of this vast domain, from the banks of the Coosa to the Chattahoochee, remained…
On 25 April 2010, the Sanctuary Choir of Auburn First Baptist presented Voices From Auburn, a concert of Sacred music by Auburn residents past and present. Composers include Hubert Liverman, Sylvia Gossett, Julia Morgan, Bill Hornbuckle, Tom Smith, Tommy Goff, Leigh Anne Armstrong, William Tamblyn, Bryan King, Dale Peterson and Rosephanye Powell. You can listen…