BIRMINGHAM — An old jail building, a historic school and a log church are among places in Alabama in need of being saved, historic preservationists say.
The Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation and the Alabama Historical Commission recently listed the sites in its annual "Places in Peril" report.
The 2018 list features a half-dozen historic places around Alabama which are "threatened by vacancy and disrepair," Al.com reported .
"This year, these places represent the everyday lives of everyday people," the organizations said in a statement. "They are all public spaces that played a part in the social, religious, economic, and legal lives of Alabamians across the years."
The sites include the Old Hale County Jail in Greensboro, now vacant with a damaged roof.
The jail housed prisoners from 1908 to 1999. The three-story masonry jail was built just as prison farms, and city and county jails began replacing convict labor camps. Offices were on the first floor, while cells were on the other two, Al.com reported.
The Acmar Civic Center in Acmar was built in 1905 by the Acmar mining company.
The Acmar building once served as a church and the segregated community's junior high school for African-American students, Al.com reported. Stabilizing the building is the first step in a plan to mark the site as an important historic community space for African American miners in Alabama, according to the state's Historic Trust.
The Ada Hanna School in Hamilton is the only remnant of an African-American school in Marion County. Since 1985, the building has been struck by multiple arson fires.
Other sites are the George W. Braxdall Lodge #28 in Decatur; Hamburg Building in Foley; and Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Fruithurst.