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  The Beirne Home, Erected in 1837

  Front: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
  Back: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
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  Major Echols Home

  Front: Maj. Echols Home, Huntsville, Ala.
  Back: Maj. Echols Home, Huntsville, Ala.
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  Scene on Franklin Street

  Front: Scene on Franklin St., Huntsville, Ala.
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  Residence of Mr. & Mrs. Milton K. Cummings

  Front: Residence of Mr. & Mrs. Milton K. Cummings, Huntsville, Alabama
  Back: This residence was built in 1860 by Major Robert H. Watkins. In 1863 became the headquarters of General John A. Logan of U. S. Army during the time he was Federal Commander of Huntsville.
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  Weeden House

  Front: Weeden House, Home of Howard Weeden, Huntsville, Ala.
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  Franklin Street, Looking South

  Front: Franklin Street, looking South, Huntsville, Ala.
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  Oaklawn Plantation

  Front: Oaklawn Plantation, Huntsville, Alabama
  Back: OAKLAWN PLANTATION, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
  This is but one of many outstanding Ante-Bellum homes in the area. Its present owner, Mr. Max Luther, has modernized the building without losing any of its gracious beauty, surrounded by almost 200 acres which is now being operated as a stock farm.
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  Oaklawn Plantation

  Back: OAKLAWN PLANTATION - one of the most beautiful ante-bellum homes in Huntsville, Alabama - was built around 1844 and served as a hospital during the Spanish-American War. The late Max Luther transformed the 175 acre estate into a stock farm. He also maintained a very fine stable for his noted five- and three-gaited saddle horses.
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  Rolling Cotton Down the Bluff

  Front: Rolling Cotton Down the Bluff, Huntsville, Alabama
  Back: ROLLING COTTON DOWN THE BLUFF. This picture shows the negroes rolling the cotton down the bluff to be loaded on the waitiug steamer. The average bale weighs 500 pounds. One hundred years ago it would have taken a person working night and day two years to separate the seed from the cotton in one bale; to-day a battery ginnery has a capacity of 155 hundred pound bales in twelve hours.
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  Pope-Spragins Home

  Back: Pope-Scragins [sic] Home, Huntsville, Ala.
  This home was built in 1815 by Col. Leroy Pope, "The Father of Huntsville", and overlooks a hill. Later it became the home of Leroy Pope Walker, who as Secretary of War for the CSA, gave the order to fire on Fort Sumter, which began the War Between the States.