Blount County AlArchives Photo Place.....Village Springs, Alabama Tornado Of May 27, 1917 
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"The evening of Sunday May 27 brought devastation to central parts of Alabama. 
Nature's fury in the form of tornados swept over the Mississippi line and into 
the Alabama communities of Carbon Hill, Bradford, Sayre, Village Springs and on 
over Pine Mountain. The morning following, The Birmingham Ledger (Sloan, May 
28, 1917) reported the death toll statewide at 35 and 200 to 250 injured. The 
storm almost wiped Village Springs off the map. Sloan noted, "Village Springs 
has been absolutely demolished, and when I passed through there this morning 
the distress was in danger of becoming acute.”


Additional Information:

The photograph shows tornado damage along East Railroad Street (the community's 
main street). The Price/Little house is shown to the left. The Sim's house is 
shown up the hill looking East. The damaged rooftop in the center is from an 
unknown structure. Old map records show that the first Village Springs Baptist 
Church once stood on the lot directly behind the damaged rooftop.  According to 
newspaper reports the church was completely destroyed by the tornado. The 
identity of the house up the hill to the far right is unknown.  

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