This article hits home particularly hard for me as yesterday I received my property tax bill which jumped almost $900 to $9300 a year!! Looks like its about time to take a Rebel Stand!!
The state took control of the home in 1903 where the last Confederate veteran living at it died in 1934. It then became a hospital before being converted into apartments for widows. That closed in 1939 and the five women living there were transferred to Montgomery.
Money that once went to the home and pensions now goes to fund veteran services and the state welfare agency. The current park was created in 1964, during the Civil War Centennial. Nothing is left of the home's 22 buildings except a few foundations and ten cemeteries containing 313 graves. A museum with Civil War artifacts opened in 2007.
Just 10,000 visitors come a year, despite being just 9 miles from I-65.
What You Gonna Do? --Old Secesh
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