River Heritage

Attractions

Outlet stores offering 25% to 70% savings off everyday prices. Selections ranging from housewares to paper, glass to shoes, clothing to clocks and rugs, and toys to linens.
Admission: Free
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks
Built in 1847 by Selma Masonic Order to serve as university. Served as Confederate hospital, county courthouse and military school. Restored to original beauty. Features Lewis collection of Civil War memorabilia, medical museum, political museum.
Admission: Admission charged
Number of holes: 9 Par: 72 Championship Yardage: 6014 yds.
Admission: Unknown
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks, Credit Cards (call for specifics)
One of the major facilities of its kind in the U.S. Auditorium designed specifically for simulating natural sky by projecting images of sun, moon, planets, stars and other celestial objects on 50-ft. domed ceiling.
Admission: Admission charged
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks, MasterCard, Visa, Discover
Known as “Big Bass Capital of the World.” Excellent year-round opportunities for fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.
Admission: Unknown
Water recreation for entire family. Giant wave pool, triple-flume water slide, kiddie pool, video arcade, souvenir shop, mouth-watering concessions. New ride: Great White Slide.
Admission: Admission charged
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks
Nature trails, special presentations, exhibits each week at Exhibition Hall, complete with Alabama animals. Special events weekends: Wildflowers, Bird Awareness Day, fishing derbies, regional artwork. 20 mi./32 km from Union Springs (Bullock County seat).
Admission: Free
World-class, year-round, staffed facility. Host to National ASA annual competition. 5-field lighted complex, central control building with 2nd-floor observation, press boxes, score booths. Large concession and restroooms on 1st floor.
Admission: Unknown
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks
Unique tombstone shaped like whiskey bottle. Designed by wife who promised to mark husband's grave if he drank himself to death. Once featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Admission: Free
Full-service hunting and shooting resort. Large parties, bed & breakfast Feb.–Nov. Recognized as one of premier hunting lodges and sporting clays courses in nation. Conference room. Overnight meetings a specialty.
Admission: Unknown
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks, MasterCard, Visa, Discover
1859 building. Public library with genealogy section located on 2nd floor.
Admission: Free
Built in 1850 as girls school; now home of Wilcox Historical Society.
Admission: Free
Dedicated in 1982 as 1st wilderness park developed inside city limits in U.S. Areas of forest have 60-ft.-tall bamboo with trunks 6 inches in diameter. Hundreds of varieties of plants, including one of Alabama's largest beech trees.
Admission: Free
Ongoing project of historic murals by nationally and internationally acclaimed muralists. Eleventh mural completed May 2001. Proclamation from governor's office states that Dothan is a Mural City.
Admission: Free
Accepted: Personal Checks, Travelers Checks
Hands-on ARTventures gallery with interactive art and sensory discovery of color, line, shape and texture. Changing exhibitions of current artists’ work, pieces from permanent collection, historic and contemporary decorative arts.
Admission: Free
The Home of Martha and Earnest Biggs is an outstanding example of Queen Ann-style architecture. It was built in 1893 for Joseph Bennett Bell, the son-in-law of Merrill Pratt, nephew of town founder Daniel Pratt.
The Wilkinson House is a two-story Queen Anne Victorian Home built Circa 1850.
Old Prattvillage is a collection of structures from the 1800's. Some are standing in their original locations and others relocated by the efforts of the Autauga County Heritage Association and private citizens.

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