9th Semi-Annual 
Front Porch Tour

Sunday, May ??, 2009
Fried Chicken Box Lunch:  11AM - 2PM
Tour:  1PM to 6PM

    
Grimes Home  

Tour cost:  $10.00
Tickets are available on the day of 
the event at the Moore Academy Gym.

Box Lunch:  $7.00
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

 

Sponsored by: 

Pine Apple Promotions
PO Box 97
Pine Apple, AL 36768

 

 

     Pine Apple Promotions welcomes you to our town and hopes you enjoy our Front Porch Hospitality.  We invite you to "sit a spell and visit" in old-fashioned Southern Style!  Many of the  homes on the tour are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Tour sites include an 1852 historic barn and log cabins, the 1927 library, a blacksmith shop, the 1902 bank building, four cemeteries and two churches.  Visitors are welcome at the 11:00AM worship services.

     The Town of Pine Apple was founded in 1825.  Historic housing dates from 1850's to 1950 containing many fine examples of homes from 1870 through the early 1900's, a particularly valuable period when not many structures were built elsewhere in the Black Belt region of Alabama.  The Pine Apple Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.  House styles in Pine Apple include antebellum planter style, central passage houses, coastal/creole cottage types, one story T and L plan cottages, high style Queen Anne, Colonial, Revival and Craftsman.  

     The front porches on tour are marked with pineapple signs in the front yards.  Refreshments are being served on several specially marked front porches.  Restroom facilities are available at Pine Apple Promotions Headquarters at Moore Academy and in town at the Library/Fire Department.  Box lunches are available at the headquarters which has a dining room.  Picnic areas are in town at the Gazebo.