Last night, I came across some old photos of an abandoned school and other buildings from Talladega County, Ala., and decided to share. They showcase one of the numerous rural Alabama settlements that are little more than ghost towns, remnants of days gone by. Don’t get me wrong, there are still people living in Eastboga in pretty homes with well-kept lawns … but its glory days appear to be behind it.
Eastaboga, a small unincorporated community near the Calhoun county line, is one of those areas we find where abandoned buildings are plentiful, evidence of a once-thriving town. Eastaboga was settled in the 1850s as McFall. It was incorporated in 1898 and unincorporated in 1901 after only three years as a city. The post office closed in 1906.
According to the book “The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States,” by Henry Gannett, the name was originally spelled Estaboga, which is a Muscogee word for “where the people reside.”
I couldn’t find history of the old school, which has been abandoned for years.
Rivers Langley posted a photo of an abandoned property on the community’s Wikipedia page, saying it is the old Jemison House and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hopefully, it can be saved.
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When I was growing up in Stemley, (right down the road and due south west) back in the 1970 and 1980s , that school was thriving with kids. It probably is still registered as a Talladega county school, but closed when the army left .
Oh, and there are at least a thousand Old Jenison houses in all of Talladega county. 😂
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* Jemison
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Thanks for sharing those memories. Yes, I’ve seen lots of places called Jemison around there and around Tuscaloosa, too.
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Sadly, the old Eastaboga School burned recently. Much of the structure is completely destroyed.
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Thank you for letting me know. It is always difficult to lose historic structures.
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