The Hartselle Historical Society will be hosting Down Memory Lane in conjunction with Depot Days . The event will take place September 10 at the Crabb-Stewart-Key-Dotson Home off of Nat Key Road. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and will have a special presentation starting at 6 p.m.

Lee Greene is the Vice President of the Hartselle Historical Society, and said the event will further help celebrate the historical part of Depot Days. The event will host an inside look into the Crabb-Stewart-Key-Dotson home, and will also have food provided by the Morgan County Cattlemen’s Association. “There will be an open house, there will be docents to explain the house and property and we will have a program to talk about what we know about the house,” Greene said.

According to Greene, the home is older than Hartselle and likely the state. The home was recently added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage by the Alabama Historical Commission, and is currently being considered for a national registry. “It is crazy rare to have a 200 plus year old structure to have an open house,” Greene said.

The event will be on Monday of Depot Days, and will help kick off the week. “Depot Days is a celebration of the railroad founding in Hartselle. This structure predates all of that, it predates Hartselle, and even the state,” Greene said.

Greene said the chimney of the home has Native carvings in some of the rock, and was likely purchased from the Cherokee. The Hartselle Historical Society has researched the history of the home since it was purchased by Crabb, but plan to continue to research the Native American tie. According to Greene, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma will be visiting in Decatur later this year, and plan to visit the site. “We didn’t know the Native history, and we are interested in learning more,” he said.

Down Memory Lane will take place at 1084 Nat Key Road, Hartselle, AL 35640. The event will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.