English: Andrea Michelle Pittman stands in front of the Shorter Mansion, Eufaula, Alabama. The house began as a much simpler structure in 1884, but was extensively remodeled from 1901 to 1906.
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Taken on 11 May 2010, 09:00 (according to Exif data)
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Beginning no later than 1733, the site along the Chattahoochee River that is now modern-day Eufaula was occupied by three Creek Indian tribes of the Muscogee Nation. The most dominant of the three, and most open to contact with whites, was named "the Eufaulas" (pronounced "you-fall-uhs.") In 1823, families from Georgia, looking for fertile crop land, established a permanent white settlement on the high bluffs of the area and adopted the Creek village's name. Its many impressive antebellum homes and businesses attest to the wealth and culture of the period. Eufaula became politically powerful, and the "Eufaula Regency," as early as the late 1840s, supported secession of Alabama from the United States. Andrea Michelle Pittman stands in front of the Shorter Mansion. The Shorter Mansion, with its 18 freestanding Corinthian columns serves as the headquarters for its owner, the Eufaula Heritage Association. Eli Sims ShorterII (1858-1908), a cotton planter and nephew of Civil War Governor John Gill Shorter, and his wife Wileyna Lamar Shorter (1861-1927) built the Alabama showplace in 1884.