Last Meeting of the Alabama Granges - Montgomery, Alabama
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N 32° 22.880 W 086° 18.202
16S E 565527 N 3582918
The Pintlala Grange Hall was the building where the last meeting of the Alabama Granges was held on July 21 - 23, 1891. It has been moved from its original site.
Waymark Code: WMEA87
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2012
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The Pintlala, Alabama, Grange Hall was originally built in that Montgomery County community, but the building now is located in Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, Alabama. It was moved to this new site and restored.
Pintlala, Alabama, is located south of Montgomery, Alabama, in rural Montgomery County. Around 1874 or 1875, the people of the community built a Grange Hall for meetings of the organization. According to the historical marker at the original site: "The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was organized in 1867 to provide economic, social and cultural improvements for farmers and their families. Pintlala's Grange Hall was erected circa 1875 on land adjacent to this marker. By the 1890s the popularity of the Grange began to wane. On July 21-23, 1891 the last meeting of the Alabama Granges took place in Pintlala. The Federal Land Bank was organized as the National Farm Loan Association of Pintlala on August 17, 1917. Grange Hall was the site of their regular meetings."
After the last meeting of the Grange, the people decided to keep using the hall. Among other uses, it became the local school. The historical marker notes: "From circa 1880 to 1922 school was held in one room of Grange Hall for seven months a year. Pintlala School was built and opened in 1923 and the Board of Education purchased the Grange property. The building was used for home economics classes and, from 1931 to 1952, served as home for Pintlala School caretakers. Over the years it was site of community dances, a meeting place for Boy and Girl Scouts, and the Pintlala Baptist Church (1960). Vacant and deteriorating, the building was given to the Landmarks Foundation and moved in 1978 to Old Alabama Town, Montgomery, Alabama."
More information on the Pintlala Grange Hall and the move to Montgomery can be found in "Old Alabama Town: An Illustrated Guide," by Mary Ann Neeley (The University of Alabama Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8173-1179-3).
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