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Escambia County
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - Highway 19 and 15 Junction, Alabama
Photo
taken- January 2006
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Site
Of Pollard
Located
1 1/2 miles south, town of Pollard established 1861 at Juncture of
Alabama & Florida and Mobile & Great Northern
railroads.
Named for Charles T. Pollard, builder of Alabama & Florida
Railroad.
One
of largest military training camps located here during Civil War.
Also sit of major Confederate stores depot. Town
suffered
much
destruction in Federal raids of December 1864 and March 1865.
Served
as first county seat of Escambia County from 1868 until 1883 when
county government moved to Brewton.
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