Russell County AlArchives Photo Place.....Historic Marker Glennville Side 2 September 21, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christine Thacker http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00033.html#0008100 October 2, 2008, 7:02 pm Source: Christine Thacker Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/russell/photos/historic9768gph.jpg Image file size: 196.1 Kb Glennville One of the earliest white settlements in the Old Creek Indian Nation. James Elizabeth Glenn, who named the town, and his brother Thompson Glenn, arrived here in 1835, only to have to evacuate during the Indian uprisings of 1836 at which time all building were destroyed and the remaining settlers killed. Thompson Glenn is credited with effecting the removal, to Columbus, Georgia. Of the entrapped white citizens of nearby Roanoke, Georgia, during the same uprising. Glennville was resettled upon removal of the Indians. It rapidly attracted settlers and their social and culotural standards caused Glennville to be known as " The Athens of the South". Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Russell County Historical Commission 1980 On Hwy 431 Russell Co., Al. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/russell/photos/historic9768gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb