200th Birthday

Butler County Celebrates 200th Birthday

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Butler County is celebrating its 200th birthday this year- along with the state of Alabama’s 200th Bicentennial. A special celebration was held Saturday in downtown Greenville. ‘Its a once in a lifetime event, you know, it’s just fantastic. It brings so many people together from communities- whether it’s fire departments, churches, schools- all these people are participating,” chairperson of Butler County’s…

Church Celebrates 200 Years

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There is only one church that can say it’s lasted longer than the amount of time Alabama has been a state. That church celebrated it’s bicentennial birthday Sunday with a special service dedicated to remembering its founding members and previous pastors. Antioch Baptist Church at Mount Meigs in Pike Road was built in June 1818, over a year before the…