Beck-Miller-Bonner Law Office

This historic building served as the law office for Colonel Franklin King Beck. Colonel Beck, who commanded the 23rd Alabama Infantry, held General U.S. Grant’s Union troops at bay for 12 hours with a single regiment at the Battle of Big Black Ridge (Mississippi). A year later, Colonel Beck was mortally wounded at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, on October 12, 1864.

After the turn of the century, the building became the law office of Joseph Neely Miller and his younger brother, Benjamin Meek Miller, Governor of Alabama from 1931–1935, and in later years, William Joel Bonner.

Today, the Beck-Miller-Bonner Law Office is a testament to enduring history—and to what preservation can achieve.