: NearDi heredekat issini terdapat Old Spring Hill, thetempat sitesalah ofsatu onetempat ofpemungutan thesuara pollinguntuk placespemilihan forlokal, thenegara November 3bagian, 1874dan local,nasional statetanggal and3 nationalNovember elections1874. Elias M. Keils, [[scalawag]] anddan JudgeHakim ofPengadilan the City Court ofKota [[Eufaula, Alabama|Eufaula]], wasadalah Unitedpengawas StatesAmerika supervisorSerikat atdi thekotak suara Spring Hill ballot box. William, hisputranya 16yang year-oldberusia son,16 wastahun, withada himbersamanya. AfterSetelah thetempat pollspemungutan closedsuara ditutup, amassa mobmenyerbu brokemasuk intoke thedalam buildinggedung, extinguished themematikan lightslampu, destroyedmenghancurkan thekotak pollsuara boxdan andmulai began shootingmenembak. DuringSelama the riotkerusuhan, Willie Keils was mortallyterluka woundedparah. TheInvestigasi resultingKongres Congressionalyang investigationdihasilkan receivedmendapat nationalperhatian attentionnasional. This bloody episode marked the end of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] domination in Barbour County. - Erected by the [[Historic Chattahoochee Commission]], 1979.
The 1874 election massacre is not mentioned in the Alabama state history curriculum, so the population does not widely remember the event.<ref>[https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2010-Alabama-Social-Studies-Course-of-Study.pdf Alabama social studies course of study] alabamaachieves.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508174954/https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2010-Alabama-Social-Studies-Course-of-Study.pdf|date=2023-05-08}}</ref> Due to this, there is no effort to correct the misrepresentation of the historical event portrayed on the historical marker.
