Auburn University Professor Dr. Mark Wilson talked about one of the more historically interesting homes in the east Alabama region at Sunday’s quarterly meeting of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society (CVHS). Located in the heart of Auburn, the Scott-Yarbrough House is more than 175 years old.
If its walls could talk, the stories they would tell.
The raised, cottage-sale home was built in 1847, some nine years before the East Alabama Male College hosted its first classes. The fledgling college would grow into what is today Auburn University, an internationally renowned seat of learning with close to 35,000 students working toward degrees in more than 150 different undergraduate degrees offered in 12 colleges…