For a small Alabama town, a bar and grill destroyed by a recent storm is 'like a loss in the family.'
In this photo provided by Jennifer Cassity, storm damage to the Faunsdale Bar and Grill, a popular spot in Faunsdale, Ala., is shown on Thursday, March 31, 2022. Located in an old building in a once-thriving town, the business was hit by a storm that moved through rural west Alabama. The loss of the well-known entertainment venue was a blow to the community of less than 100 people.
Located in Marengo County about 80 miles west of Montgomery, Faunsdale was a thriving town in the heart of the state’s cotton belt in the 1800s. It had two cotton gins, a cotton seed mill, five stores, a bank, a drug store and more, according to theAll that’s left now are homes and a few businesses inside shells of old red-brick buildings. One of them housed the Faunsdale Bar and Grill, a popular stop for University of Alabama football fans headed to Tuscaloosa from south Alabama.