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Autauga County Heritage Association

Autauga County Heritage Association

Residents of Autauga County, Ala., can go to the ACHA museum to research family history and other local documents.

The ACHA was born out of a sense of collective guilt after the Daniel Pratt mansion was leveled. After more than a decade of regret at having lost forever one of our most treasured of historic homes, the Prattville Study Club, then a group of 50 women, initiated the establishment of a county historical society. In 1976, our nation’s bi-centennial year, the Autauga County Heritage Association’s first president, Evelyn Striplin, was elected from among the 309 charter members of the association

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