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New In Town? Tired of Chili's? Want to see Auburn's Past? Here's a few humble suggestions.
Where To Eat and Drink
--Good Ol' Boys
(Sandhill Rd) Over 85 toward 'Skeegee, turn left at
the first and only flashing caution light..2 miles on your left.
Good-home cooked catfish, steaks with real reasonable prices. Patrons
like their government small and their portions large. Home to many a League
meeting.
---Whispering
Oaks Bed and Breakfast
(Geneva Rd.) Downtown Opelika favorite.
Not sure if anyone actually sleeps there, but the locals stream in to eat
by far the best all-you-can-eat lunch buffet in town. Miss your mama's
home-cooking? You can get it all from fried chicken to collard greens to
banana cream pie for under 6 bucks. Pick your favorite room of this
antebellum mansion to chow down in.
---The Strutting
Duck
(Wire
Rd) Warning: Thoroughly infiltrated by League members! Auburn's country
bar. Willie, Waylon, Merle, and Coe all are welcome here.
(Feeling Restless?..Try
Auburn the LOS Way!)
Auburn Confederate Monuments (probably an incomplete and incorrect list..addition and corrections welcomed)
--Bullet-Riddled Battle Flag of
...Alabama Regiment
--Recently
moved to Special Collection Room of the University Library on the Ground
Floor
--Jefferson Davis Boulder
--One
of Auburn's lesser known monuments. On his way to his inauguration
in Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis' circuitous route led him by train
through Opelika and Auburn. On the spot today marked by a boulder
in front of the Auburn Depot (now offices), he reviewed Auburn's troops.
--Pine Hill
Cemetary
--Head out Roosevelt Dr. away from
campus. Cemetary contains old Auburn families, CSA veterans and a
monument to Texas veterans who died in Auburn hospitals during the War
of Northern Aggression.
--Comemoration
Plaque
--Auburn's Langdon Hall holds a
nice plaque honoring those who fought the Yankees.
---The Lathe
--Next to Samford Hall stands a
lathe used to make cannons during the war. Read the interesting story
on the plaque.
Under Construction:
Coming Soon....
--Historic Homes
--Auburn War History
