St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

This parish established 1830. Third oldest in Alabama diocese.<br><br> Church consecrated in 1843 by Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana, (later a Confederate general).<br><br> Here Nicholas H. Cobbs was chosen first Bishop of Alabama in 1844.<br><br> First vestrymen: Dr. Richard E. Meade, Dr. R. C. Randolph, Dr. R. W. Withers, J. Bell, J. B. Stickney, Dr R. Inge, Frank Inge, William Murphy, Col. Samuel Pickens.