Enjoy a spaghetti supper that evening
News Staff Report
If you’re interested in history – especially history of the Canoe area – you’ll want to mark your calendar for an upcoming event.
The Canoe Civic Center will be open for viewing exhibits or discussing history / genealogy Saturday, June 21, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Among the items on display will be the old post office boxes (Canoe had a post office from the 1860s to the 1970s); and Atmore Hardware and Stallworth Hardware business ledgers (Stallworth Hardware was located where Mills Fence is now in Canoe).
For those interested in the Civil War era, the center has a set of the Official Records of the War of Rebellion which is on loan from The Semmes Camp SCV. These are the records of nearly every official correspondence during the War Between the States.
Judson Carden has also loaned the center an exhibit of artifacts from the war which were recovered at Canoe.
Local Historian Kevin McKinley will be on hand to help (or try to help) anyone who needs genealogy search assistance through the resources he has. McKinley hopes to open the center once a month from 9 a.m. to noon for research as his work schedule permits.
Later that day, June 21, at 6 p.m., a spaghetti supper will be held. Plates are $10, dine in or carry out. Proceeds from supper will be used for work on the Civic Center.
Call 251-294-0293 for more information.