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Fort Hill Memorial Society : ウィキペディア英語版 | Fort Hill Memorial Society
The Fort Hill Memorial Society was created on January 28, 1851 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It began as a coalition of recently graduated students from the University of Alabama. The founder, Leonard Oliver Lefournette, could sense war on the horizon with tensions growing between the North and South. He chose his four closest friends to start up his organization (known as the Brooklyn 5 as all of the groups ancestors moved to the south from Brooklyn) and by 1855 had managed to grow from the original five members to 40+. By planning ahead, he created the largest memorial organization in Alabama whose sole purpose was to remember the fallen men and women from the looming war. Before his early death on October 17, 1859, Lefournette was able to recruit over 115 members to his new-found society. During the American Civil War, the society went underground to keep secrecy a priority, however, after the war they purchased a run down academic building from the university that would serve as their headquarters. The building acted as a museum, dedicated to the fallen heroes from Alabama and surrounding states, and stayed open until 1926, when the university temporarily banned secret societies from its campus. While the Fort Hill Memorial society was not secret anymore, their association with the name "Secret Society" due to their hiding during the Civil War once again forced them underground. The Society has still not returned to campus to this day, but does supposedly operate out of the Memory Chapel Funeral Home at the Memory Hill Gardens Cemetery in South Tuscaloosa. While the history of this semi-secret society is well know and traceable, the rituals, ceremonies and knowledge have been kept a secret for generations. Due to this secrecy, it is not known if the Fort Hill Memorial Society is actually being run out of the Memory Hill Gardens Cemetery or even that they are still in existence. While it is unknown whether the Society is defunct, underground, or simply a legend, the only solid facts known are how the organization began and the last known headquarters of the Fort Hill Memorial Society. ==References==
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