Autauga County Heritage Association

Residents of Autauga County, Ala., can go to the ACHA museum to research family history and other local documents.

The ACHA was born out of a sense of collective guilt after the Daniel Pratt mansion was leveled. After more than a decade of regret at having lost forever one of our most treasured of historic homes, the Prattville Study Club, then a group of 50 women, initiated the establishment of a county historical society. In 1976, our nation’s bi-centennial year, the Autauga County Heritage Association’s first president, Evelyn Striplin, was elected from among the 309 charter members of the association