Dennis Hotel - Dadeville, AL
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N 32° 49.945 W 085° 45.811
16S E 615728 N 3633385
Locate on Broadnax St., across from City Hall, the marker describes a former building used as a stage stop, a hotel, and later replaced by a post office.
Waymark Code: WM184ZF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 05/31/2023
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Marker text:
Called the United States Hotel until the 1890s,
the Dennis Hotel was owned by a Dadeville
family by that name for well over a century. It
began as a stage stop, and gained fame as the
living quarters for mid-19th-century humorist
Johnson Jones Hooper, who compiled the stories
here that became the best-selling The Adventures
of Simon Suggs. The hotel was an L-shaped
wooden structure, with an upper balcony
featuring four columns extending along the front
sheltering a first-floor porch. In the early
1960s, the hotel was replaced by a post office.
Marker Name: Dennis Hotel Circa 1836~Circa 1960
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
Erected by the Alabama Historical Association.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2016
Marker Number: Not listed
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