Below is a letter from Gloria Evans, curator of the PRHGS gift shoppe/research library. If anyone has information or stories concerning either or both of our courthouses here in Coffee County, please respond here or send me an email at kwanja@centurytel.net . I would like to share your stories and facts with Anne Herbert Feathers at the Alabama Historical Association. Thank you kindly for your help. You all take care now..... Phyllis J. K. Owens Alabama Historical Association sent a letter It says: As a way of collecting stories and legends about Alabama Courthouses for a talk to the Alabama Historical Association at the 2008 annual meeting, I am writing to local historical associations with the hopes that their members might have information about such lore associated with the courthouses in their counties. I hope you can help me. I am aware that courthouses in your county burned in 1851 and again in 1863 and am especilly interested in an facts, rumors. or other information about the fires. Many stories have grown up about barious courthouse burnings around the state, and I would like to include some of them in my talk. Certainly, if there are any such stories about Coffee County, I would like to include them. Also, any other stories or unusual features that you know about your current or former couthouses would be apperciated. If you can help me, please include sources for your stories. I am using many unverifiable tales (myths. so to speak) but at least would like to credit the person who told the story to me. Since the legth of my talk is limited, each narrative must necessarily be brief. If you know others who might be able to help, please pass this to them also. I certainly don't want to leave out a good story about a Coffee County Courthouse! Thank you so much for helping me gather information on this project. I am looking forward to hearing frim you. Sincerly Anne Herbert Feathers afeathers@camelliacom.com 334-382-0229