This is the typical early home in the area. Note the water well in the backyard. This was used for water and for keeping milk and butter cool in hot weather.

This Singer sewing machine was donated to the museum. It was bought by three daughters of Lee Andrew Register and given to their mother, Mary "Polly" Pedigo. Money to purchase the machine was earned picking cotton.

Typical bedroom. The photo does not do justice to the room. The mattress is obviously a feather mattress.

This was a log cabin kitchen showing the wood burning stove. Note the iron cookware on the stove. The two sections on the upper portion was used for keeping bread & pies warm.

Do you recognize this item? No? Well, it's a floor scrubber made from corn shucks and used for scrubbing the wooden floors with lye soap & sand.

This buggy would have been in use by the more affluent folks of the time. It is enclosed by glass with only the driver exposed to the elements.

For that "final ride". The hearse had a tag on it with the words "donated by Mary Blair Truss".

Orion Baptist Church located at the crossroads in Orion, Alabama

Grave marker for Thomas Marion Register & Callie Catrett Register at Orion Baptist Church Cemetery.

Headstone for Norman McLeod located in the Orion Methodist Church Cemetery.