St. Florian Lauderdale County AL

Saint Florian's first place of business was Adam Zulauf's Store. Appointed postmaster on July 25, 1879, Zulauf made the post office a part of his store. By 1881, he had built a two-story, eight room brick building, with a hotel addition for travelers and boarders. In the same year John Schaut opened a general Near the entrance to the modern Indian Springs Subdivision on U.S. Highway 73 East is the pioneer Cain and Middilton Cemetery. Three of the early graves here are: William James Middilton who was born in 1831 and died 1846; Elizabeth Cain, wife of John Cain. Esquire, born in 1796 and died in 1837; Elmirah who died in 1844 at the age of thirteen years. Excerpt from A Walk Through The Past by William Lindsey McDonald 2003