Sylacauga’s Marble City Church celebrates centennial, looks forward to relocation

Edward Gantt, a physician, secured a place in Alabama history in 1820, when he discovered one of the world’s largest and purest veins of white marble in Sylacauga. That find so impacted the city’s economy that marble operations continue there today. Thus Sylacauga has been nicknamed the Marble City. One of its churches bears the name as well. Marble City…