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History · Eutaw

Eutaw dates to 1838, and 29 of its places are on the National Register

More historic than 66% of U.S. towns · #45 of 187 in Alabama. What drives it

Most of Eutaw was built recently: 0.9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. 29 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 34 buildings. Below: 22 old photos and papers, maps from 1893 on, and the census since 1850.

1838founded
29on the National Register
0.9%homes built before 1940
22old photos & papers
14famous people
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From Eutaw’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Eutaw began

When was Eutaw founded?

1838

Eutaw dates its founding to 1838 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1850.

First census: 2,000 in 18502020 census: 2,937188 years

How historic is Eutaw?

B+

More historic than 66% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1834.The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Eutaw’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Eutaw is more historic than 66% of U.S. towns, #45 of 187 in Alabama. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Eutaw’s overall grade.
Founding era1838, from Wikipedia: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 19400.9% of homes (±1.6) · typical AL town 3.2% · U.S. 8.4%DNational Register29 listings, 74 historic buildings, 266 per 10,000 residents · typical AL town 2.7 · U.S. 2.4A
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 66%
NewerOlder
Alabama towns of 2,500+ (187)Ahead of 76%

Alabama towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Alabama town has 2.7 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Eutaw’s 266 sits above most of its state (91% of Alabama towns have fewer) while its 74 historic buildings outnumber those of 87% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to A. The pre-1940 share (±1.6 points) is firm at this size. Two sources give 1838.

Founding year: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Eutaw’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Landmarks on the Register29 places on the National Register.Shrank, then grewLost half of its people between 1850 and 1900, then grew 3-fold.A town in old photos22 old photos, postcards and papers.A historic districtThe Greene County Courthouse Square District takes in 34 historic buildings.
★ What stands out · On the National Register

29 historic places in Eutaw

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.

places listed
29
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
74
each building in a district counts
first listed
1970
Coleman-Banks House
Coleman-Banks HouseGreene County CourthouseFirst Presbyterian ChurchKirkwoodAsa White House, built 1838Attoway R. Davis HomeCatlin Wilson HouseDaniel R. Wright HouseDavid Rinehart Anthony HouseDr. Willis Meriwether HouseEdwin Reese HouseGlenvilleGustave Braune HouseIredell P. Vaughan HouseLittleberry Pippen HousePhillip Schoppert HouseRev. John H. Gray HouseStephen Fowler Hale HouseWilliam A. Rogers HouseWilliam C. Jones HouseWilliam Perkins HouseWilliam Peter Webb HouseJohn Coleman HouseSamuel W. Cockrell HouseWilliam B. Wills HouseWilliam F. Pierce HouseGreene County Courthouse Square DistrictBenjamin D. Gullett House, built 1841John W. Elliott HouseSamuel R. Murphy House
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Greek Revival15
Federal2
Victorian2
Creole Cottage2
Georgian1
Italianate1
Coleman-Banks HouseGreek Revival
Greene County CourthouseGreek Revival
First Presbyterian ChurchGreek Revival
KirkwoodGreek Revival
Asa White HouseFederal · Built 1838
Attoway R. Davis HomeBuilding
Catlin Wilson HouseBuilding
Daniel R. Wright HouseBuilding
All 30 listings
David Rinehart Anthony HouseBuilding · listed 1982Dr. Willis Meriwether HouseBuilding · listed 1982Edwin Reese HouseBuilding · listed 1982GlenvilleBuilding · listed 1982Gustave Braune HouseBuilding · listed 1982Iredell P. Vaughan HouseBuilding · listed 1982Littleberry Pippen HouseBuilding · listed 1982Phillip Schoppert HouseBuilding · listed 1982Rev. John H. Gray HouseBuilding · listed 1982Stephen Fowler Hale HouseBuilding · listed 1982William A. Rogers HouseBuilding · listed 1982William C. Jones HouseBuilding · listed 1982William Perkins HouseBuilding · listed 1982William Peter Webb HouseBuilding · listed 1982John Coleman HouseBuilding · listed 1982Samuel W. Cockrell HouseBuilding · listed 1982William B. Wills HouseBuilding · listed 1983William F. Pierce HouseBuilding · listed 1983Greene County Courthouse Square DistrictDistrict · listed 2025Benjamin D. Gullett HouseBuilding · listed 1982John W. Elliott HouseBuilding · listed 1982Samuel R. Murphy HouseBuilding · listed 1982

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Eutaw, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,00018501900195020002,000 in 1850Low: 884

Lost half of its people between 1850 and 1900, then grew 3-fold.

16 censuses, 1850–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Eutaw’s Wikipedia page.

By decade

Eutaw, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s22 items
BROWN MARBLE MANTEL IN S. W. REAR ROOM - Kirkwood, Mesopotomia Street and Kirkwood Drive, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS…1933BROWN MARBLE MANTEL IN S. W. REAR ROOM - Kirkwood, Me…CLOSE-UP NORTH END OF FRONT PORCH - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS…1933CLOSE-UP NORTH END OF FRONT PORCH - White-McGiffert H…CLOSE-UP OF FRONT ENTRANCE - Eutaw Female Academy, Main Street and Wilson Avenue (moved from original site), Eutaw, Gre…1933CLOSE-UP OF FRONT ENTRANCE - Eutaw Female Academy, Ma…CLOSE-UP OF FRONT, (WEST) - Reese-Lucius House, 242 Wilson Avenue, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA,4-21933CLOSE-UP OF FRONT, (WEST) - Reese-Lucius House, 242 W…CLOSE-UP REAR DOOR (NORTH) - Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highway 11, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA.V,1-101933CLOSE-UP REAR DOOR (NORTH) - Boligee Hill, Near U.S. …CLOSE-UP SOUTH (FRONT) ENTRANCE - Greene County Courthouse, Main and Boligee Streets, Prairie and Monroe Avenues, Eutaw…1933CLOSE-UP SOUTH (FRONT) ENTRANCE - Greene County Court…CLOSE-UP SOUTH ELEVATION (FRONT) - Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highway 11, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA.V,1-11933CLOSE-UP SOUTH ELEVATION (FRONT) - Boligee Hill, Near…CORN CRIB. - A. W. Smith House, 220 Main Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA,9-111933CORN CRIB. - A. W. Smith House, 220 Main Street, Euta…DETAIL OF DOOR AND MANTEL IN N. WALL OF E. FRONT ROOM, FIRST FLOOR - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Stre…1933DETAIL OF DOOR AND MANTEL IN N. WALL OF E. FRONT ROOM…DETAIL OF FRONT DOOR - Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highway 11, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA.V,1-81933DETAIL OF FRONT DOOR - Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highwa…DINING ROOM IN REAR OF HOUSE - J. O. Banks House and Smokehouse, Springfield Avenue and Pickens Street, Eutaw, Greene C…1933DINING ROOM IN REAR OF HOUSE - J. O. Banks House and …DOOR AND MANTEL IN W. WALL OF LIVING ROOM - C. W. Dunlap House, 237 Wilson Avenue, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32…1933DOOR AND MANTEL IN W. WALL OF LIVING ROOM - C. W. Dun…DOOR IN EAST WALL OF HALL, FIRST FLOOR - Boligee Hill, Near U.S. Highway 11, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA.…1933DOOR IN EAST WALL OF HALL, FIRST FLOOR - Boligee Hill…DOOR IN N. WALL OF HALL, ALSO STAIR BASE - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Street, Eutaw, Greene County, …1933DOOR IN N. WALL OF HALL, ALSO STAIR BASE - White-McGi…EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) - Old Law Office, Main Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUTA,13-11933EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) - Old Law Office, Main Street,…EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUT…1933EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) - White-McGiffert House and Of…EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-EUT…1933EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) - White-McGiffert House and Of…EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) OLD OFFICE - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS…1933EAST ELEVATION (FRONT) OLD OFFICE - White-McGiffert H…EAST ELEVATION (GENERAL VIEW) VIEW FROM GATE - White-McGiffert House and Office, Mesopotamia Street, Eutaw, Greene Coun…1933EAST ELEVATION (GENERAL VIEW) VIEW FROM GATE - White-…FIREPLACE IN PARLOR, SOUTH WEST FRONT ROOM - A. W. Smith House, 220 Main Street, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS ALA,32-E…1933FIREPLACE IN PARLOR, SOUTH WEST FRONT ROOM - A. W. Sm…FIREPLACE IN S.W. BEDROOM - Eutaw Female Academy, Main Street and Wilson Avenue (moved from original site), Eutaw, Gree…1933FIREPLACE IN S.W. BEDROOM - Eutaw Female Academy, Mai…FRONT (NORTH) AND EAST SIDE OF SERVANT HOME, REAR OF MAIN HOUSE - Perkins-Spencer House, Spencer Street, Eutaw, Greene …1933FRONT (NORTH) AND EAST SIDE OF SERVANT HOME, REAR OF …
1940s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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The story

How Eutaw came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Eutaw.

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Eutaw was laid out in December 1838 at the time that Greene County voters chose to relocate the county seat from Erie, which was located on the Black Warrior River. It was incorporated by an act of the state legislature on January 2, 1841.

Chapters20th century to present

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Eutaw, 1834 to 2020

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1834Post officeThe Mesopotamia post office opens
  3. 1838
    FoundingEutaw is established
  4. 1838BuiltAsa White House is built
  5. 1839Post officeThe Mesopotamia post office closes
  6. 1839Post officeThe Eutaw post office opens
  7. 1841BuiltBenjamin D. Gullett House is built
  8. 1846Born hereGeorge F. Elliott is born here
  9. 1866Born hereWilliam Marmaduke Kavanaugh is born here
  10. 1868Born hereOliver H. Cross is born here
  11. 20th century
  12. 1931On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  13. 1933In the archiveBROWN MARBLE MANTEL IN S. W. REAR ROOM - Kirkwood, Mesopotomia Street and Kirkwood Drive,…
  14. 1972Born hereCalvin Davis is born here
  15. 21st century
  16. 2020CensusPopulation peaks at 2,937
On the map

Eutaw on the map, 1931 to 1980

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eutaw. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Eutaw on the 1931 USGS mapEutaw on the 1980 USGS map1931Eutaw sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Eutaw.

Every building

Eutaw, building by building, 1893–1925

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Eutaw fire insurance map, 1893, sheet 11893Sheet 1 of 1
Edition
Sheets
BrickWoodStone

Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

BROWN MARBLE MANTEL IN S. W. REAR ROOM - Kirkwood, Mesopotomia Street and Kirkwood Drive, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS…
Retake this viewBROWN MARBLE MANTEL IN S. W. REAR ROOM - Kirkwood, Mesopotomia Street and Kirkwood Drive, Eutaw, Greene County, AL HABS…, 1933

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Eutaw’s page.

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Famous people

14 famous people were born in Eutaw

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Calvin DavisAmerican athletics competitor · b. 1972
William Marmaduke KavanaughAmerican politician · b. 1866
George F. ElliottUnited States Marine Corps Commandant · b. 1846
Oliver H. CrossAmerican politician · b. 1868
William Bacon OliverAmerican politician · b. 1867
Jimmie TaylorAmerican basketball player · b. 1995
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Eutaw’s post office has been open since 1839. Another post office, Mesopotamia, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Mesopotamia
1834–1839
Eutaw
1839–today
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Gosa
Gone or out of use
Eutaw Female CollegeschoolFirst Methodist Episcopal ChurchchurchHatfield SeminaryschoolMesopotamialocaleMesopotamia Post Officepost officeRagans Christian Methodist Episcopal Chapelchurch
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Eutaw
BethlehemMesopotamia

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Help out

Finish Eutaw’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewBROWN MARBLE MANTEL IN S. W. REAR ROOM …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Eutaw’s history

What year was Eutaw founded?

In 1838, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Eutaw’s post office opened in 1834, and the census of 1850 counted 2,000 people here.

How does Eutaw rank for history?

Eutaw is more historic than 66% of U.S. towns, #45 of 187 in Alabama. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Eutaw?

29 listings: 29 buildings, among them the Coleman-Banks House (listed 1970, the first), and 1 historic district, the Greene County Courthouse Square District, with 34 contributing buildings. 74 historic buildings in all.

How old are the homes in Eutaw?

0.9% of Eutaw’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.6 points), against a typical 3.2% for an Alabama town; the median home was built in 1975.

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (22), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (30), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.