Bartram's Trail - Greenville, AL
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N 31° 53.476 W 086° 40.923
16R E 530067 N 3528427
William Bartram traveled the Southeast U.S., including Butler County, from 1773 through 1777. He published observations of plants, animals, geography and people in 1791. Marker located along Sherling Lake Road west of Braggs Road.
Waymark Code: WMYW4P
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 07/31/2018
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Marker text:
William Bartram, America's first great naturalist, passed through northwest Butler County in July 1775. He described the "limestone rocks" and "banks of various kinds of sea shells" left by oceans that covered this area millions of years ago, and noted a "very remarkable grove of Dogwood trees...which continued nine or ten miles unalterable except here and there a towering Magnolia grandiflora.”
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On his exploration trip to Mobile in 1775, William Bartram followed ancient Indian trading paths through Butler County for approximately 30 miles. His route through what was then British territory on the eve of the American Revolution became part of the "Federal Road" a few decades later, leading thousands of settlers into the newly created Butler County and state of Alabama.
Marker Name: Bartram's Trail
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
Erected by the Butler County Historical Society.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2006
Marker Number: N/A
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