Bethlehem Baptist Church - Freetown (Hale County) AL     From the historic marker for Freetown: In 1867 a group of African American men and women laid the foundations for Freetown. William, John, Albert, George, Richard, and Peter Collins; Susan and Lawrence Moore; Thomas Jeffries; the children of John Jeffries; and Louisa Conway and her children received over six hundred acres of land in the will of John Collins, a local planter who had migrated from Virginia to Alabama in 1837.

Saint Andrews Episcopal Church  est 1853      St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, also known as St. Andrew’s Church, is a small Carpenter Gothic style church built in 1853-1854. The exterior of the church features wooden buttresses. It appears to have been built from a design in the book, Rural Architecture by architect Richard Upjohn. The building is virtually unaltered, with original pews, organ and stained glass. The interior walls of the church are reportedly stained with tobacco juice. (Reuben Shearer was janitor for many years).