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Friday night light Life in The Valley:

The people and places of Alexandria

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Friday Night Light: Welcome to The Valley, a community steeped in traditions.

Summer 2013

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Editor: Tim Lockette Writers: Leah Cayson, Madasyn Czebiniak, Debra Flax, Katie Turpen, Sara Milledge and Courtney Davies Photographers: Courtney Davies, Stephen Gross, Trent Penny and Bill Wilson Designer: Patrick Stokesberry Advertising: Dollie Robinson Jessica Ledlow Consolidated Publishing Co. H. Brandt Ayers, Chairman and Publisher Phillip A. Sanguinetti, President Bob Davis, Associate Publisher/Editor Robert Jackson, Vice President for Sales/Operations Scott Calhoun, Vice President for Finance Copyright 2013 Consolidated Publishing Co. 4305 McClellan Blvd.

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Table of Contents SECRET SAUCE: Welcome to The Valley.................................................................... 4 A CLOSE HUDDLE: Football binds Alexandria together................................................ 8 HOME COURT: Groundbreaker returns to his roots............................................ 14 GROWTH PIPELINE: A community’s plan for development......................................... 24 ALEXANDRIA TREASURE: History under one roof................................................................. 28 CHA-CHING: Businesses find an inviting home............................................... 30 GREEN OASIS: A place to park history................................................................. 34 MORE THAN MAIL: Old post office was gathering spot............................................. 36

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‘It’s a unique situation’ Welcome to The Valley, a community marked by deep roots, historic places and one tasty hot dog

By Sara Milledge with contributions from Madasyn Czebiniak, Debra Flax and Katie Turpen

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Every Saturday morning at 7, Alexandria’s “city council” meets at the Jack’s just off of U.S. 431. Over coffee and biscuits, the unincorporated town’s unofficial governing body discusses the latest news from what residents affectionately call The Valley. It’s where you go to find out anything about anything in Alexandria. And everybody here knows it.

With a population of approximately 4,000 people, Alexandria is the type of place that nurtures fierce town loyalty. Zac Welch and his wife were both born and raised here. They graduated from the town’s high school, and were expecting their first child this summer. Welch said his son will be able to trace his Alexandria lineage back three generations on either side. Both sets of great grandparents were AHS alumni.

Alexandria’s Historic Greenwood house

“As I watch these other places change over time, Alexandria has pretty much stayed the same,” Welch explained. “It’s a unique situation.”

While that degree of town loyalty is rare in most cities across the country, here it’s the norm. That’s just the kind of place Alexandria is.

And then there’s the orange and black.

Drive through any Alexandria neighborhood and you’ll be greeted by orange paw prints and the occasional Valley Cub-themed mailbox. The high school’s signature colors are a source of town pride.

“It’s an identity,” Welch said, adding his closet is split right down the middle. One half is orange and black; the other is crimson and white.

The mantra here is “once a Valley Cub, always a Valley Cub.” On fall Friday nights, the entire town can be found at Lou Scales Stadium awaiting kickoff. Only the Sonic stays open.

“On Friday night, it was everything,” said former AHS football star Kevin Blue.

Everyone else seems to agree.

Photos by Bill Wilson

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Alexandria residents take pride in their town, past and present. Part of that past includes the Battle of Tallaseehatchee, which was fought on Alexandria soil in the early 19th century. The present involves a relaxed-paced living that allows for chats on a front porch.

It appears no Alexandria native can talk about Valley Cub football without mentioning the iconic Valley Dog, even from 900 miles away. It’s one of the things Buffalo Bills cornerback and AHS alumnus T.J. Heath misses most about his hometown.

“I still to this day don’t know what they’re made of,” he said, laughing.

“A Valley Dog is something everybody in Alexandria knows about,” Welch said, adding that only the community’s “higher ups” know what goes into the magic mix that features notes of onion and sauerkraut. “It’s a held in the heart tradition.”

But the Valley Dog is just one aspect of the town’s long history. Driving down Alexandria’s roads, it’s hard to miss the towering antebellum Greenwood House, the old post office and the historic markers the commemorate the first battle of the Creek Indian War, the Battle of Tallaseehatchee, which was fought on Alexandria soil in the early 19th century.

Today, Alexandria residents take pride in their town, past and present. On a summer afternoon, you can catch Mac Gillam and Gary Frasier restoring the town’s first post office, or spot members of the Variosa Club planting flowers to brighten up the notorious “ugly pole” near the town’s new park and community center.

Billy Patterson moved from Wellborn to Alexandria because he believes the best people in Calhoun County all eventually end up here. He’s lived in Alexandria for eight years and he says he’s blessed.

“I always hoped and prayed in my heart I could move to The Valley,” he said. “I haven’t met a person yet who hasn’t been fortunate enough and blessed by God to live here.”

Like Patterson, Evelyn Gacasan is an Alexandria transplant. She enjoys the feel of a small town and being able to feel the love of her community. And after 20 years of being an Alexandria resident, Gacasan can’t see living anywhere else.

“Alexandria has many pockets of secrets,” Gacasan said.

“It’s a quaint town. Not too big, not too small. There’s everything you could possibly need out here.”

In 1985, The Anniston Star went to interview Alexandria residents after AHS won the 4-A football state championship.

Johnny Woodruff recalls his older brother, Norris “Woody” Woodruff commenting on the town and the foundation it provided for its residents.

“I want you to know that you’re standing at the crossroads of the world,” Woodruff remembered him saying.

“You can start here and go anywhere you want.”

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‘Football

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big deal’

By Sara Milledge

Former Alexandria players fondly remember Valley Cub football

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ven after living in Jacksonville, Fla., Cincinnati and Buffalo, N.Y., Alexandria native T.J. Heath still thinks his high school’s signature dish is top dog.

“The Valley Dog is one of the best hot dogs anywhere, even in New York,” he said, laughing. “Every time I go home, I try to get one.”

After being promoted from the Buffalo Bills’ practice squad to the active squad last December, Heath does not make it to the concession stand at Lou Scales Stadium very often.

“With my schedule being so tight here, I’ll only get to go home once in a blue moon,” he said, adding his parents still live in Jacksonville, where they moved during his senior year in high school.

The 25-year-old cornerback said he is excited to begin the 2013 football season.

After a career at JSU, Heath was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2011 by the Jacksonville Jaguars, making him the 19th player in NFL history to claim the Anniston area as their birth city or hometown and the first from Alexandria High. He’s bounced from the Jaguars to the Cincinnati Bengals to his current team in Buffalo.

Although Heath is beginning to make a name for himself in the world of professional football, he has not forgotten about his Alexandria roots.

“Coming from a small town, football in Alexandria is a big deal,” he said. “Just being in that environment, it

Over a coaching career that spanned almost 30 years, Larry Ginn won two state championships in football and three more in basketball. Ginn, who played under legendary Alexandria coach Lou Scales, passed away in 2009.

makes it fun.”

Heath recalls Friday nights spent playing under bright lights as fans packed into Lou Scales Stadium. Heath was named to the first-team all-state by the Alabama High School Athletic Association as well as being an academic honors student.

“I had a great time,” Heath said, adding that the smalltown element made playing even more fun.

“Everybody knows everybody,” he said. “You knew at least one or two other people on the other teams. I think it made the competition even better. … We always made sure to beat them so we could have something to brag about.”

Now living in Buffalo, N.Y., nearly 900 miles from his hometown, Heath remembers the fun he had playing high school ball, and the man who helped him grow as a player.

“Larry Ginn was one of the best coaches in the state of Alabama,” he said confidently of the late Ginn, who spent nearly 30 years coaching Valley Cub football before his death in 2009. “I’ll carry Alexandria with me the rest of my career.”

Heath is not the only AHS graduate who still holds on to Ginn.

Zac Welch, class of 2001, now coaches baseball and football at his alma mater.

“It’s a direct result of the people that came before us,” he said of his decision to become a coach, noting his father, who also coached at AHS, and Ginn left a

“Larry Ginn was one of the best coaches in the state of Alabama”

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‘I’ll carry Alexandria with me the rest of my career,’ says T.J. Heath, a former AHS football player.

permanent mark on his life. “I just hope one day I’ll have that impact on someone else.”

At least 15 of the county’s coaches, he added are AHS graduates, in addition to the 10 that currently coach in Alexandria.

He thinks the impact former coaches had, as well as the importance of tradition in the town, is important to current and former players. At the start of each season, when the football team is handed their jerseys, they are reminded of all the players who wore that number before them, sometimes going back three or four decades.

“We make sure to teach them the history,” Welch said.

“When you start looking at the guy that wore it in the 1950s, and he’s in the stands now, you should feel an obligation to give it all you got.”

Kevin Blue, a 1985 graduate of Alexandria, has also returned to coach at his alma mater. Like Heath and Welch, Blue said playing for Ginn left an indelible impression.

“He took me at a very young age… took me under his wing,” he said. “He developed me into an athlete.”

Blue said he still feels the pain of Ginn’s untimely death four years ago, adding that Ginn was a father figure during

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Blue’s time as both a player and a coach.

“He took so much time out of his life to help me,” Blue said of the coach. “The things he taught me in the athletic field actually helped me later in life.”

Blue preceded Heath as an ASHAA all-state player in 1983 as a wide receiver and again in 1984 as a defensive back.

“The All-State honors were considered very high, the highest thing that could be given back then, and now,” he said.

Blue said he remembers his days playing football vividly, and he tries to pass down the excitement and reverence he feels for Valley Cub ball to his fifth and sixth grade players. He described walking out onto the field on a fall Friday night. The crowd was roaring, but he couldn’t hear a sound.

“I can still smell the grass, coming out of the locker room, the adrenaline rush,” he said. “The whole community is going to show up there. They’re going to get a Coke, a hotdog and some popcorn and they want to sit there and watch Alexandria beat up on somebody in the county. When I coach… that’s the type of drive and motivation that I give them.”

Blue echoed Welch’s thoughts on the importance of beginning sports at a young age in the Valley. He played youth

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“I can still smell the grass, coming out of the locker room, the adreneline rush, the whole community is going to show up.”

— Kevin Blue football under the coaching of Harold “Warty” Warren, a high school All-American in the late 1950s. Heath also said he played little league during his childhood.

For Blue, consistency in offensive and defensive styles, beginning in pee wee ball, has been the secret to Alexandria’s more than 40 years of success. He thinks because of their football upbringing, the high school’s varsity team has an advantage over other programs.

“There are these T-shirts the kids wear around town,” he said. “They say ‘Alexandria Valley Cubs: Start ‘em young, raise ‘em right.’ We take pride in that.”

Just like fellow football coach and AHS alumnus Welch, Blue touted the importance of the orange and black, and the significance of wearing a Valley Cub jersey. He remembers the responsibility that goes along with playing football for Alexandria.

“There were a lot of expectations. You weren’t just putting on a uniform to show off and run around in front of your parents, friends, girlfriends,” he said. “You had a job to do.”

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Home in Alexandria

By Madasyn Czebiniak

Alexandria High’s gymnasium carries Brenard Howard’s name.

Howard carries the lessons he learned as one of the first black students to attend the school

Photo by Stephen Gross

A well-beaten, rust colored path with two deep tire markings leads up to a caved-in building with no buses, playground or parking lot. No school bell or football stadium can be found here. Instead of chalkboards there are brokendown cars and furniture covered in plain white bedsheets. At the end of the building, a lone silver ladder extends high into the sky.

This, once upon a time, was Alexandria’s Brutonville Junior High.

Bright hazel eyes, belonging to someone who had to grow up far beyond their years, land on the far left corner of the building, which is dingy, beat-up and faded from age.

“That used to be the cafeteria,” Brenard Howard said.

Before integration, Brutonville was where Howard and other African-American students living in Alexandria attended kindergarten through ninth grade. Four classrooms, three teachers and more than 40 students eager to learn.

Now it stands shrouded, but not forgotten.

“It looks like someone’s using it as a house now,” Howard said.

When he attended Brutonville, there were 45 or more kids on the bus and older students were the drivers. Howard said he and the other students were up between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. because of the commute. Then, because of the route, they only had 4 to 5 hours of school.

“We made the program work,” Howard said.

Before integration, African-American teenagers in

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Coach Brenard Howard pictured with Coach Larry Ginn and Coach Lou Scales, who Howard says, “looked out for us.”

Photo by Bill Wilson

Calhoun County made a daily commute to Hobson City where Calhoun County Training School, the county’s only all-black high school was, Howard said. He was lucky enough to be one of the students who never had to attend “County,” as they called it. Thanks to a policy called Freedom of Choice allowing students the right to choose what school they wanted to attend regardless of race, Howard opted for Alexandria High School.

Howard said he doesn’t remember much about his first day at Alexandria, just that it was very intimidating to know he was not wanted by the majority of the student body.

“Other schools in the county integrated along the same time. The anticipation originally was the hardest and not knowing what to expect or even if you could cope,” he said.

Though school was intimidating, Howard said, he felt that integration in Alexandria was a lot easier than in other schools.

“They had fights and riots. You’d get those name-calling and sometimes you’d get spit on. But we had some great teachers at that time. Coach [Lou] Scales looked out for us,” Howard said.

Other former Alexandria students, like Henrietta Thomas and Glenda Elston, wanted to attend CCTS. Thomas and

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Elston said they weren’t as lucky as Howard. Because Howard was an athlete, he was treated better, they said.

“I didn’t want to leave ‘County.’ I remember filling out that Freedom of Choice form and dropping it in the box at the post office. As soon as I did I wanted to take it back out,” Thomas said.

Howard said it was parents who pushed for the integration of the schools and who urged the students to attend them.

Parents were serious about education and wanted their children to be serious, too.

But no matter how much education someone may have, it doesn’t always prevent them from picking on others. Elston said she remembers having to walk to the bus at an angle to avoid being spit on.

“If we got on the bus no one would sit with us,” she said.

Howard said the only bad experience he remembers from high school was when his friend, Johnny Douthitt, broke his ankle during a football scrimmage.

Howard said he and Douthitt were the only black players on the team. Howard first believed the injury had been intentionally inflicted and almost quit the team because of it.

Howard said the reason he kept playing was because their coach came to Douthitt’s door and told Douthitt’s mother

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she wouldn’t have to pay for his medical bills.

“I have no gripe,” Douthitt said when asked about the incident and his reasons for attending Alexandria.

“You have to want to,” he said. “There was all kind of avenues you had to face to go to school. That’s the difference between going to a white and black school.”

Howard said the football team did decently when he played but not great.

“Junior year we were really good,” he said.

Forty-three years and retirement later, Howard is still referred to as “Coach” at Alexandria. He helped the high school women’s golf team win a state championship in 2002, was awarded Employee of the Month at a recent Calhoun County Board of Education meeting, and even has the school gymnasium named after him.

While in school, aside from football, Howard played basketball and baseball and ran track. He said sports and extracurriculars were something new and exciting for someone who never had the opportunity before.

“A lot of activity was going on here. Having to commute to Hobson City and back then, nobody participated in extracurricular activities,” he says.

Classmate Henrietta Thomas said she wished she had been able to join the school band at CCTS but because of her transfer to Alexandria she hadn’t been able to.

Elston said she used to feel if she had stayed at CCTS she could have been somebody within the school’s social structure.

These days, they don’t regret going to Alexandria.

“I tell my children mommy paved the way for you,” Thomas said.

Howard said he can’t remember anyone who picked on him at school, but Elston said she remembers one boy who would constantly knock her books out of her hands. She also remembers a girl, Barbara, from her class.

“She was always nice to me,” she said. “You had those who ignored you, those who were mean to you, and those who treated you like you were somebody.”

Elston said she ran into Barbara Harden on a visit to

Alexandria High School where Harden works as a secretary.

Harden said she was moved by the fact Elston mentioned her kindness.

“I’m glad she said something nice about me. Sometimes you don’t realize the impact you have on people,” she said.

The biggest surprise all the students said they encountered after integration was the fact they came to Alexandria with the same level of education as the white students.

“I remember thinking ‘How can we be caught up? We had three teachers. We had seventh, eighth and ninth grade’,” Elston said.

After he graduated from Jacksonville State University with a degree in secondary education, Howard said he was given the chance to go back to Alexandria to teach. He said he never really wanted to and took a job with Anniston High School instead.

“They always tried to get me to come back,” he said. He eventually did because of his children who all went to Alexandria.

Howard’s oldest son, Brenard Jr., won two state championships with the basketball team, his daughter, Teralyn Foster-Howard, won three with the volleyball team and his youngest son, Brandon, won a championship with the football team.

After he missed out on seeing his two eldest children play sports Howard decided to come back to Alexandria to watch Brandon. He said he never won a state championship while he was in school and wanted to see his children succeed.

“I decided I would come here and work and watch him play his last two years,” he says.

Now, after retirement, Howard said he would rather sit at home with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich than deal with all the traffic in Anniston. That’s another reason he never left Alexandria, his birthplace, he said.

“My mother moved to Atlanta after I graduated and I went out there with her. Two days of that was all I could handle. I don’t require a lot. I’m a simple person. I have the freedom to come and go,” he said.

While in school, aside from football, Howard played basketball and baseball and ran track. He said sports and extracurriculars were something new and exciting for someone who never had the opportunity before

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‘A big economic

boost’ County leaders peg Alexandria’s growth to joining county sewer system

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By Madasyn Czebiniak

‘There is some industry out there but not so much as the big city,’ says Calhoun County Commissioner J.D. Hess. ‘You don’t have to have sewers, but places that don’t are going to miss out on big restaurants and manufacturers. We don’t need Alexandria to be all hamburger and gift shops.’

Photo by Bill Wilson

For one of the fastest growing communities in Calhoun County, it’s a surprise to learn Alexandria is not fully submerged.

Commissioner J.D. Hess calls the unincorporated town ‘the new Saks.’ This time, Hess said, he’s not going to let a fast-growing area miss out on a chance to get on the county sewage system, something he’s been working on for 20 years. Most homes, if not all, are not connected to the sewer system and must rely on septic tanks.

“The county is working on getting a sewer connection up and down [U.S.] 431,” Hess said. “It would be a big economic boost for Calhoun County.”

Especially for unincorporated Alexandria, which grew from a population of 3,692 in 2000 to 3,917 in 2010 according to the census.

Hess said he believes a connection to the county sewer system might give Alexandria a chance to garner some business growth, something other Calhoun County communities like Saks have already missed out on.

“There is some industry out there but not so much as the big city. You don’t have to have sewers, but places that don’t are going to miss out on big restaurants and manufacturers. We don’t need Alexandria to be all hamburger and gift shops,” he said.

Aside from bringing industry, a sewer connection in Alexandria would help connections grow in both Saks and Weaver. It would also make Alexandria a healthier place to live, Hess said.

“If you get one on that end of the county as it grows it will connect. Not everything can be put into a septic system. In a sewer, waste would be filtered, released and treated. It makes a difference,” the commissioner said. “It’s a quality of life for families.”

Even though health, expansion and business growth are concerns, the cost to build the U.S. 431 sewer connection is the main reason the project hasn’t taken off, Hess said.

“We worked before to get grants and funding sources,” the commissioner said. He said he didn’t know or couldn’t think of any sources of grant funding.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, who discussed the possibility of a county sewer connection with Star editors four years ago, said there are still obstacles.

“Like many other key infrastructure projects across East Alabama this could greatly benefit the area, but state and local leaders first need to reach consensus on how best to fund and build it,” he said.

According to Hess, just creating the plans to build the sewer could cost anywhere from $35 million to $36 million, a price many investors simply won’t pay in this economy. Hess said he doesn’t know how much the actual project, aside from the plan, will ultimately cost.

“Never give up hope. We will get it one day,” the

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commissioner said.

The assistant general manager of the Anniston Water Works and Sewer Board, Rodney Owens, said he is glad to see county leaders like Hess recognizing Alexandria’s potential. Owens agrees a sanitary sewer system is what Alexandria really needs, especially because U.S. 431 runs right through it from Anniston to Gadsden.

Aside from money, Owens said another problem with a sewer connection plan is that no one in the county is equipped to build extensions to the collector system or the pipes used to transport sewage.

“The project needs to be designed and put out for bid for an [outside] contractor,” Owens said. He added even if all of the money needed was available today, the project would still take five years.

“It’s a big plan to wrap your arms around. It’s much easier to talk about than designing, planning and building it,” he said.

Joel Prickett, who has been with the Calhoun County Water Authority in Alexandria for 26 years, says he has also seen Alexandria grow significantly during his time there.

“As a community, Alexandria has probably close to doubled,” he says.

Prickett agrees connections to the county sewer system in the communities that lack them would encourage more industrialization and growth.

“Big companies cannot move in without sewer systems,” he said.

Owens said this is because industrial companies generate different types of waste than most residential dwellings.

“Sewage isn’t just sewage,” Owens said.

The size and nature of some types of industrial discharge can include chemicals like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. Those cannot be broken down by septic tanks, Owens said.

“If you try to put a shopping center on a sophisticated septic tank system you’re going to have to spend millions of dollars,” Vaughan Fleming, the environmental supervisor of the Calhoun County Health Department, said. “Then you have to maintain it.”

According to Fleming, more people are on septic systems in the county than on the sewer system.

“Some [septic tank installers] say it’s pretty slow and some say they have jobs every day,” said Fleming.

Fleming said it would be ideal if the county sewer system could be connected to everything because people would not have to pay $100 for a permit or $1,000 or more to have a tank installed. Homeowners also wouldn’t

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have to deal with the responsibility of owning a septic tank, making sure to monitor what goes down every drain in their residence or getting the tank pumped out, he said.

According to Owens, the Anniston Water Works and Sewer Board has a one-time tap charge for customers to connect to the county sewer line. Then it’s about $12.36 per month for sewer services.

Billy Patterson has lived on Pine Oaks Road in Alexandria for close to eight years. Patterson moved there from the Wellborn area because he said he believes Alexandria has the best people in the county.

“We’re not neighbors, we’re a family,” he said.

Patterson said he would like to see Alexandria connected to the county sewer system because it will not only bring industry, but also save residents time and money.

“Our septic tank is not very big. We had to dig up the yard and replace it last year. It costs a pretty good penny,” he said. “Especially with the way times are.”

Patterson said a sewer system connection would ultimately help the community morph into a city, something he has been hoping for for awhile.

“I would like to see Alexandria become a city. We have the land and the possibility to really build up,” he said.

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Alexandria’s Greenwood home, which dates back to the early 19th century, was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1987 and put on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Photos by Bill Wilson

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Greenwood home an Alexandria treasure Last remaining family member relives fond memories in historic home built in 1830s

By Katie Turpen A drive down Alexandria-Jacksonville Highway towards “downtown” Alexandria in summer 2013 revealed flashes of history on a winding country road. Right past the four-way stop is the original one- room post-office, which was being restored. Less than a mile down the road, a large antebellum home stands out from the rest of the houses on the street.

A long, narrow driveway leads toward the picturesque Greenwood home that boasts green shutters and four bright white pillars. In the lush backyard, a weathered wooden swing hangs by a rope from a tree branch and a boisterous rooster struts and crows.

“Would you like to take home Bird Brain? Yes, that’s the bird’s name,” says local historian Mac Gillam who has lived in the home since 1990.

Gillam is writing a book on the history of Alexandria. He is originally from Kentucky but has family ties to the area.

“I just want to know the history of Alexandria and put that information in a book,” Gillam said.

Gillam’s home was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1987. It was placed on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Register of Historic Places two years later, primarily for its Greek revival architectural details.

The Greenwood home has a rich history that dates back to the late 18th century when the first European families came to Alexandria. In the early 1800s, the Alexandria Valley was part of the “cotton kingdom.” It was a rich farming community with families each owning their own plantations.

Jacob Ross Green was a prominent member of one of these first families to settle in The Valley. He built the Greenwood home in 1835 and he and his wife raised their six children there. His granddaughter married Norris Woodruff, which led to the joining of the Greens and Woodruffs. In 1975, the family claimed the house was the only one in Calhoun County that was owned by a descendant of the original owners. Six generations of the family have lived in the home.

Johnny Woodruff is the great-great grandson of Jacob Ross Green. He is the only Woodruff who was actually born in the home and is the last Woodruff left in Alexandria.

“I’m the last of the Mohicans,” Woodruff says with a smile.

Woodruff has many fond memories of growing up in the house at a time when there were no telephones, television or air conditioning and dirt roads wound through the town.

His sister was married at the house in 1957; his mother had the train whistle silenced so it would not make the family bird dogs howl and disturb the wedding.

“She marched down to the office in Anniston and they listened to her,” Woodruff said.

Another event that stands out vividly in Woodruff’s mind is the Diamond Jubilee in April 1958.

“The men all had on their top hats and long coats,” Woodruff said. “People came from Alexandria and Anniston and just all over the area.”

In addition to the memorable party and family wedding, Johnny recalls area deacons regularly coming over to the house to enjoy “friendly fruit,” an enticing concoction made of brandy and fresh fruit.

“It was powerful stuff,” Woodruff said. “And none of them ever refused it.”

The house even has an air of mystery. Woodruff remembers a ghost haunting the various hallways and rooms of the large home.

“The house is haunted by a woman named Ms. Po Key,” Woodruff said. “You can hear her walking around and strange noises such as doors slamming.”

Today, Johnny Woodruff and his wife Mary Lou live about half a mile behind the Greenwood home on their 200-acre family farm. Woodruff shares Gillam’s interest in the home’s history and important place in the Alexandria community.

“He’s always letting me come by and show the house to people that want to see it,” Woodruff said.

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Business is

booming

Highway, increasing population cited as reasons for growth in Alexandria’s business community

By Leah Cayson, Madasyn Czebiniak and Courtney Davies

Alexandria pharmacist Bill Threadgill fills a prescription at Downey Drugs.

D

owney Eye Care opened its doors in June 2010. Owner and optometrist Stephen Downey said no one had ever offered eye care in The Valley before. He saw an opportunity and took it. He’s not the only one.

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Photo by Bill Wilson

According to the U.S. Census, Alexandria has been growing. The community’s population went from 3,692 in 2000 to 3,917 in 2010. Because of this, business owners and entrepreneurs see Alexandria as a prime location for new industrial growth.

Calhoun County Commissioner J.D. Hess said he thinks Alexandria’s business growth is part of a trend.

“People want to live out [in Alexandria]. The stores are there. It’s convenient,” he said.

Downey said he’s received a lot of positive feedback from the community because of his location.

“They’re used to not having as much in a small town and now these things are popping up,” he said. “People say thank you for being here.”

Downey said people have the option of driving to Anniston and Gadsden, but the community supports the local businesses instead.

“It’s that local small-town thing,” Downey said. “They want to support local and then it’s up to us to offer good service with good benefits.”

Downey Drug, which is right next door, has been serving the Alexandria community for 10 years. The drugstore is the only one in The Valley and has been at its current location since 2009.

“We have an obligation to do things right, treat the community right and to offer great service,” said Paul Graham, co-owner of Downey Drug.

Graham said the drug store’s employees thinks of their customers as extended family.

“Most retail are corporate owned. So their level of true care isn’t the same level as mine,” Graham said. “It’s about taking care of people.”

Hess said the majority of business

growth has a lot to do with U.S. 431 which connects two larger cities, Anniston and Gadsden.

“It’s not too far out thanks to the good road systems we have. If we could ever get the sewers out there it would flourish,” Hess said. “It may not be in my lifetime but I think Alexandria will meet with other cities on 431.”

Daniel Leonard’s Valley Veterinary Clinic has been in Alexandria for more than 12 years. Like Hess, Leonard thinks U.S. 431 is one of the benefits Alexandria has over other areas.

“Alexandria has a lot of livable space with a large commuter highway and lots of commuter traffic between Anniston and Gadsden. It’s only natural there would be exposure for lots of business,” he said.

Aside from Alexandria’s location,

Leonard said he decided to open a clinic in The Valley because of the business opportunities.

“Smaller communities with a reasonable sized population are more likely to support a small veterinary practice because there’s less competition and more perceived needs from clientele,” he said.

Anthony Humphries, president and CEO of Noble Bank and Trust, said opening a branch in Alexandria was one of the best decisions the bank has made. “We know Alexandria is made up of fine people who passionately support all aspects of their community and we wanted to be a part of this great environment.”

“The increase in population and business activity was also an important factor in our decision,” he said.

U.S. 431, which connects Anniston and Gadsden, is Alexandria’s main corridor for business.

Photo by Bill Wilson

“Alexandria has a lot of livable space with a large commuter highway and lots of commuter traffic between Anniston and Gadsden. It’s only natural there would be exposure for lots of business” — Daniel Leonard, Valley Veterinary Clinic 32 Alexandria|Life in the Valley

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History, greenery abound at new Alexandria park

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for local senior high girls and sponsoring it upon request. My vision is to have it Nestled on the corner of Church a family at Christmas time. Many of the open once a month.”

Street and Alexandria-Wellington Road club’s members are retired Alexandria Gardner says the library was moved is the recently built Alexandria park, teachers and the club aims to be an from its original location near the Variosa Club House and a churchactive part of cultural and social life in Alexandria post office and admits that turned-community center.

Alexandria as well as promote historic when someone steps inside the library’s A bridge, which is a historic marker preservation throughout the city. doors, it is clear the building has seen a moved from Broadway Mills Road, runs lot of use over the years. over a narrow creek lined with stones.

“It’s what we hope it will stand for, for “It used to sit right out on the road,” A fountain bubbles at the far end of the another 100 years, at least,” Nelms said.

Gardner said. “You can see holes in the stream and a white pavilion rests on the The Alexandria Community Center, floor of the building where water has edge of the lush green lawn. which was once the historic Alexandria come through.”

“We’re very proud of our park,” said Methodist Church, sits between the The historic Variosa Club House Mac Gillam, Alexandria resident and park and clubhouse. In March 2012, borders the park and is shaded by historian who resides in the historic the center was turned into a license and the largest Southern magnolia tree in Greenwood home. “It’s so important for tag office where residents can purchase Alabama. The Variosa Club claims 20 our community.” business licenses and pistol permits. active members and is celebrated its At the park’s entrance is the “You can rent out the floor of the 100th anniversary in July. Since its Alexandria Rifles Memorial. The community center for bridal showers and founding, more than 200 women have monument honors the Alexandria things like that,” Gardner said. “You can been members of the revered club.

Confederate company that fought also rent out the park. It’s a good place “In all 100 of those consecutive years, for prom pictures.” under Robert E. Lee during the there has not been a month we haven’t Civil War. It was erected by the Gardner says the new community met,” said Pam Nelms, president of the Alexandria Park Committee in 2012 center is bittersweet for her and the Variosa Club. and is significant to the Alexandria other ladies of the Variosa Club who The club meets the third Tuesday community, according to Gillam. enjoyed having their clubhouse sit of every month and takes on various “Those men fought in several major beside the church. community projects throughout the year battles,” he said. “It’s the only memorial “We lost the church but we gained including an annual scholarship program the park,” Gardner said. for a particular rife unit in Calhoun County.”

The park also contains Calhoun County’s first public library, which was established in 1915. It is named for Margaret Woodruff who founded the Alexandria Variosa Club, a group of civicminded Alexandria women. The small, white, one-room building served as an “open house” for soldiers stationed at Fort McClellan during the world wars.

The building was named a significant landmark by the Alabama Historical Society and also added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1986. The Alexandria Variosa Club operated the library for 43 years and still maintains the building today.

“We did our first reading program inside the library for second-graders this past April,” said Pat Mangum Gardner, This small, white, one-room building served as an ‘open house’ for soldiers stationed at secretary of the Variosa Club. “We open Fort McClellan during the World War I and World War II. Photo by Bill Wilson

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‘Preserve O as much

history

as you can’

Old post office gets more than a fresh coat of paint

By Sara Milledge

n a muggy June afternoon, Alexandria native Gary Frazier pounds a nail into a fresh piece of plywood.

Sweat streams from underneath his Janney Furnace baseball cap down onto his cheeks.

“We waited until it got real hot,” he said, laughing.

Most days in June, Frazier and fellow Alexandrian Mac Gillam measure, sawed and nailed at the old Alexandria post office downtown. The only thing that slowed the two retirees down is the weather. And the heat.

Restoration on the now-closed post office began last year, but the Alexandria Historical Preservation Society’s efforts are just starting to show. At the beginning of the project, the group encountered problems with the building’s foundation, in large part due to termites.

“That was probably the hardest part,” said Johnny Woodruff, who grew up in the historic Greenwood house.

“Really we’ve done a lot just to keep it from falling in.”

The group has also stripped the old post office of the white siding it sported during the final years of its use. With the original wood exposed, Gillam and Frazier began the process of recovering the building with new weatherboard.

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“It’s a very simple structure,” Woodruff said. “It’s just a matter of getting someone with knowledge and skill… I’d hate to have to throw it together and it not be right.”

Pam Nelms, who is also a member of the Alexandria Historical Preservation Society and the president of the town’s Variosa Club, said she and Gillam decided to begin the project and create the historical society around the same time.

“He and I just started talking,” she said. “We just felt like it was a worthwhile project. You just want to preserve as much history as you can.”

Nelms added the building is on private property, but the owners agreed to the restoration project. The team did not want to move the old post office from its original location.

Nelms said, although they are eligible to be on the state’s register of historic places, buildings that are moved do not qualify for national historic recognition.

Although the team has already purchased most of the supplies required for restoration by June, they were missing one important detail—the original post office boxes.

“Our understanding is when they closed the post office down, the boxes were sent to Wellington,” Woodruff explained. “But no one knows where they went to.”

Gillam, Woodruff and Nelms were hoping to track down the original boxes, or at least boxes that would fit the period of the building, which sell for about $3,000 online.

Even though they are looking for period post boxes, Gillam and Woodruff aren’t sure exactly when the old post office was built. The group has an idea of the time period, but the original construction date is a mystery.

“That’s the first post office anybody remembers out here,” Gillam said. “Based on the construction materials…we’re thinking it was probably around 1924 because that’s when the postmasters changed. They changed about every year or every few months, all the way up to about 1924. Then, she stayed as postmaster to 1960.”

The “she” Gillam referred to was Veta Jordan Massey, who retired as postmistress in 1960 after 37 years. After Massey retired, Woodruff’s mother, Ruth Woodruff, volunteered to serve as postmistress and moved the post office to the library during her six-month tenure.

“My mother was a socialite. She had it fixed where the men and women could come in and socialize while she did her work so she could keep up with the gossip,” Woodruff said.

“She encouraged people to come and sit down and talk while she sorted the mail.”

The post office returned to its building in 1961.

For Alexandria native Becky Thomas Miller, the word gossip was synonymous with the ladies who ran the old post office.

“Let me tell you one thing about having a postmistress,” she said. “She knew everybody. Everybody that was

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sick, everything that was going on. That was a form of communication.”

While no one is certain of exactly when the old post office building was constructed, a handful of records that chronicle the beginning of Alexandria’s postal system have survived.

Those records indicate that on Feb. 15, 1834, the first post office was established in Alexandria, which was then known as “Houston’s Store Settlement.”

Its proximity to the elementary school made the old post office a popular destination for class trips. Miller remembers visiting the post office with her fourth-grade class.

“I have memories of that,” she said. “We would go on little field trips.”

Nelms, who moved to Alexandria in 1971, has memories of walking her class from Alexandria Elementary to the post office to mail letters to Santa Claus.

In 1981, the post office moved to the building that now houses Sharp Printing on U.S. 431 before settling on its current location in 1995.

For Frazier, who proudly retains his status as an Alexandria High School Valley Cub, the old post office building is an important part of the town and its residents, both new and old.

“This building’s not new to me,” he said. “Anything we can do to save part of our history and our heritage, I’m for it.”

‘Anything we can do to save part of our history and our heritage, I’m for it,’ says Gary Frazier.

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