Blog Post Title One
Volume I, Number 1 August 1995
Dear Friends,
The Mt. Meiqs--Merry--Pike Road Historical Preservation Society, Inc., invites you to participate with us as we seek to protect the historical heritage of our coaunity.
Please read this first issue of of our News/Journal to lean about our organization and what we plan to accomplish. We bope that you will want to join with us in documenting and preserving the historical siqnificance of this section of Montgomery County.
We are grateful to our current member for their donations of $25 or more. Tbrough their generosity, we have financed our incorporation , prepared for this first mailing and purchased materials for
our fund raising. As our membership (and treasury!) increases, we plan to erect historic site signs, print and mail a newsletter three times per year and sponsor activities to promotee awareness of the historical aspect of our community.
Your generous contribution will entitle you to leadership in this Society and will be invaluable in protecting and preserving our history. Please join.
Shirley McKenzie, President
The Society
Anyone interested in the history of the community is eliqible to join. May we suqqest a gift of membership to those friends and relatives would enjoy receivinq the News/Journal.
BACKGROUND: The Mount Meigs - Pike Road Historical Preservation society, Inc. ('Society’) came into being to protect the history of our community. On March 4, 1994, the ·tax exempt, non-profit organization was incorporated
to preserve the historical heritage of the area;
to encourage further research ~tits history and the architecture of its historical structures;
to proaote the registration of its historic sites with the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritaqe and the National Register of historical structures.
The placement of historical monuments and markers, accumulations of artifacts and relics for display, and guided tours of historic homes will foster public (sic).
Membership:
Payment of the $10.00 annual dues annual dues entitles members to the News/Journal, an upcomimg
lecture series, planned tours of historic stuctures, an annual meeting in an historic structure, and the camaraderie of a qroup interested in the historical heritage of our area. We encourage you to consider an additional contribution to help us get off the ground.
STRUCTORE:
A Board of Directors governs the Society. The Board of Directors includes Shirley McKenzie, President: Maurite Scanlan, Vice-President; Mary Ella Marshal, Secretary: E. Ted Bejsovec, CPA, Treasurer; Lexie Turnipseed, Meabership Chairman; and Randall Bishop, Fund Raising Chairman. Advisory Board members are Johnlene Lucas Brown, Barbara Duke, Dan Jones, Peggy B. Joseph, Virginia Scott Martin, Frank H. Mcfadden, Tommy Pinkston, Lee Russell and Joseph Scanlan. Sarah J. Bejsovec serves Corresponding Secretary.
GEOGRAPHICS:
The designated area is that which is covered by the Pike Road and Waugh-Mount Meigs Volunteer Fire Departments. We have obtained authorization from the Department of Transportation and the Alabama Historical Commission to erect signs proclaiming eligible areas in Mount Meigs and Pike Road as Historic Districts.
LECTURE SERIES:
The Society will sponsor lectures about the community. John B. Scott, attorney and author of Memories of the Mount, will speak at 7:00 pm on September 21 at Woodland Nethodist Church. He has asked those attending to bring pictures and significant documents to share.
Attend these lectures and take away with you a qreater knovwledqe of your comunity. You will hear facts of interest, but even more importantly, you will fee1 yourself participating in the folklore of the area as you learn stories to pass on to your children and grandchildren .
HISTORICAL DATA REQUESTED: .
Do you have memorabilia which might interest others in the community?
The Society has received authorization from the Montgomery Public Library to enter a file of historical data in the Pike Road Library Branch. WE hope to include photographs, copies of letters, deeds, and other documents of historical interest as well as other artifacts.
We need your help in collecting material that will interest researchers. Please keep us in mind as you clean out attics, etc. If you have an interesting
document, make a copy for our library file.
FUND RAISING:
Would you like to display copies of tbe historical buildings of this comunity in your own home? You can do just that by supporting the fundraising drive of the Historical Society. Beqin with your own limited edition replica of the MARKS HOUSE;, probably the most we11-known historic buildinq in our commnity.
The Society has commissioned set of wood replicas of historically siqnificant area buildings. You will want to collect or use tem as qifts. (One local family received qreat thanks after sendinq one of the replicas to an out-of-town family member with Pike Road connections.) These replicas will become more special to you as the years qo by. You may purchase your registered, limited edition woodcut replica of thie Marks House for only $15 by contacting Maurite Scanlon at 279-8318.
The next woodcut, of GRACE Episcopal Church, will be available at tbe 1995 Flea Market, or you HY reserve your replica on the f o n below. You will surely want to add this to your collection.
ANNU-AL MEETING
The first annual meetinq of the Historical Society was held in March at Panache at Rose Hill in Mt. Meiqs where members gathered to share stories of the community, renew old friendships and make new ones and to learn about the Society itself. Proprietors of Panache gave some history of the building, and Joe Scanlan highlighted the career of a famous former resident of Mt. Meigs, Dr. Marion Sims, “Father of Gynecology”.
