St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Carlowville

08/14/2026

Would you have seen the possibilities? Most people would drive by this house in Natchez and call it a tear down.

Kevin and Laine Berry see possibilities.

Join us August 30 as nationally recognized preservation advocate Laine Berry of Our Restoration Nation shares inspiring stories and remarkable before-and-after transformations in her presentation:

"There Is No Such Thing as a Tear Down."

📍 Furman Community Center, 8191 County Road 59, Furman
🕑 2:00 p.m.
🎟 Free & Open to the Public

Our Restoration Nation There Is No Such Thing as a Tear Down with Laine Berry

08/01/2026

07/23/2026

Bishop McDowell elected at St Paul’s Carlowville

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A bit of trivia for you today: Camp McDowell is named after Bishop George William McDowell Jr.

McDowell was ordained deacon by Bishop Beverley D. Tucker and priest by Bishop Alfred Magill Randolph in 1909. He then became rector of Meherrin Parish in Meherrin, Virginia, and in 1913, rector of Emmanuel Church in Staunton, Virginia. From 1918 to 1919, he served as a first lieutenant chaplain in the US Army during WWI. Later in 1919, he served as a student pastor at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), where he remained until 1922.

In 1922, McDowell was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Alabama at a special convention at Carlowville, Alabama (Dallas County) and was consecrated on October 20, 1922, by the Bishop of Tennessee, Thomas F. Gailor. He then succeeded as Diocesan bishop upon the death of Charles Minnigerode Beckwith in 1928.