Click image to enlarge. After vandals broke out windows and set fire to the old Folsom house in rural Coffee County, preservationists and local officials were determined not to lose one of their most treasured landmarks. This building was not only an exceptionally intact example of a late-nineteenth-century farmhouse, it was also the birthplace of James Folsom, forty-fifth and forty-seventh governor of Alabama—and the only resident of Coffee County ever to be elected to the post. In 2003 the Coffee County Commissioners obtained the house from the Folsom family and set out to preserve it. Several options were considered, but the community decided to move the house next to the old jail in downtown Elba. Today the house needs repairs. The City of Elba is still recovering from two major floods in the 1990s, so additional funding is unavailable right now to restore the house.
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