(2009) Enlarge Cahaba gift shop display
  
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(2009) Enlarge The Sultana disaster

(2009) Enlarge Methodist-Episcopal church (1848-1954)

(2009) Enlarge Cahaba slave cemetery. In Memory of Albert, servant of Warren B. Andrews, died June 5th, 1860: Warren B. Andrews was Cahawba's sheriff. In 1860, Sheriff Andrews owned 16 slaves and 3 slave houses. In March of that same year, two months before Albert died, Mr. Andrews had to mortgage four town lots and five of his enslaved laborers. The mortgaged slaves included: "Albert, a small yellow man, Jo Ann, his wife, a mulatto, and two children, Conelius & Jordon." The terms "yellow" and "mulatto" indicate that Albert and he wife had light skin and mixed ancestry. Apparently, shortly after Albert's death, his wife gave birth to a little girl, Alberta. After emancipation, Jo Ann took the last name of Cochran (or Crocheron) and became a seamstress. Both boys, Cornelius & Jordon, grew up in Cahawba and became school teachers