 WAYNE COUNTY  County Seat:
Normally the courthouse itself isn't one of the more interesting stories in a county, but it is for Wayne County. In 1972 the old courthouse burned. Originally, Wayne County officials were going to move the courthouse away from the Waynesboro town square. But by the time the Nashville architectural firm, Yearwood and Johnson, had come back with a rather unusual modern design, the decision had been made to rebuild on the site of the old courthouse. Today people who drive through Waynesboro do a double-take when they see the reinforced concrete courthouse.
T. S. Stribling PHOTO: Univ. of North Alabama Also related to Wayne County: By many accounts, T. S. Stribling was America’s greatest author in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born here, in In spite of his success, not all of his fellow southerners were happy with his depiction of life in the South, the way he attacked injustice, and the way he wrote about race relations. Some people today say that it was T. S. Stribling’s novels that “destroyed the myth” of the old South, carving the way for some of the changes that took place after World War II (such as desegregation). For a more on Stribling, click here. |
All photographs taken by Bill Carey for THKF unless otherwise stated.