Originally called Montgomery House, 1821 Greek Revival plantation home was significant to cultural development of central Alabama. Remarkable circular staircase spirals 24 ft. to 3rd-floor banquet room. Available for weddings, parties, tours, etc.
Daniel Pratt Cemetery
Street address:
Pratt Cemetery rd., Prattville, AL 36067
Phone:
(334) 361-0961
GPS:
32.459312201974384, -86.47879
Overlooking the town, this picturesque cemetery is the only remaining domestic component of the extensive Pratt home site and industrial complex.
The earliest marked grave (1843) is that of the 9-month-old infant daughter of Daniel and Ester Pratt. Other graves include those of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt, their family, and their closest friends. George Cooke, a prominent antebellum artist Pratt befriended and commissioned to paint numerous works for his private art gallery, is also buried in the Daniel Pratt Cemetery.
Grave monuments include excellent examples of mid-19th-century funerary art. The fence surrounding the burial ground is also notable. It is composed of elaborate cast-iron panels with a design known as the weeping-willow-praying lamb motif. It is anchored between plain brick piers with ashlar caps.
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Sponsored by Autauga Co. Heritage Assn., museum dedicated to historical preservation of Autauga Co. Features Daniel Pratt memorabilia, local family history, Civil War room, county artifacts. Genealogy information access.
Dedicated in 1982 as 1st wilderness park developed inside city limits in U.S. Areas of forest have 60-ft.-tall bamboo with trunks 6 inches in diameter. Hundreds of varieties of plants, including one of Alabama's largest beech trees.
The Home of Martha and Earnest Biggs is an outstanding example of Queen Ann-style architecture. It was built in 1893 for Joseph Bennett Bell, the son-in-law of Merrill Pratt, nephew of town founder Daniel Pratt.
The Wilkinson House is a two-story Queen Anne Victorian Home built Circa 1850.
Old Prattvillage is a collection of structures from the 1800's. Some are standing in their original locations and others relocated by the efforts of the Autauga County Heritage Association and private citizens.
In 1838 seven members of the Union Baptist Church met to form the Unity Baptist Church, the forerunner of First Baptist Church. Daniel Pratt deeded a lot south of Autauga Creek to the Unity Baptist Church in 1840.
First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1846 with thirteen chartering members. Four years later the first church was dedicated. This was a one-room frame structure located near the cotton gin factory on the south side of Autauga Creek.
The First United Methodist Church was founded in 1843. Daniel Pratt provided and equipped a room above a store for these first meetings and later donated land and money for a larger and more elaborate church building.
Episcopal Services were held in Prattville as early as the late 1840's, but the congregation formally organized in 1859 as Saint Mark's Episcopal mission and was admitted to the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama in 1877.
The history of Ward Chapel goes back to the days of slavery, when its members were connected to the Methodist Church in Prattville. The first sanctuary, in 1843, was located south of Autauga Creek, across from the end of Chestnut Street.