Established in 1824, the Three Notch Road was a 90-mile section of a 230-mile military road connecting Pensacola with Fort Mitchell in Russell County on the Chattahoochee River. Capt. Daniel E. Burch marked the route with three notches on trees for a crew under Lt. Elias Phillips to follow, and soldiers from the U.S. 4th Infantry Division cleared it in June, July, and August 1824 at a cost of $1,130. The road ran through the present cities of Andalusia and Troy and followed the ridge dividing the watersheds of the Conecuh on the northwest and the Yellow and Pea rivers on the southeast, from the town of Carolina, where it intersected the 1817 Gaines Road, to Union Springs, where it intersected the 1805 Federal Road; local legends crediting Andrew Jackson are not documented. In Pike County in 1943, nineteen-year-old Hank Williams met Audrey Sheppard while singing with a medicine show. She was estranged from her husband, with whom she had a daughter, Lycrecia Ann, born Aug. 13, 1941. Hank and Audrey lived in Andalusia while his band performed at the Riverside Inn on the east bank of the Conecuh River at River Falls. Ten days after her divorce, Justice of the Peace M. A. Bovett married them on Dec. 15, 1944, at John G. Wright, Sr.’s garage in this building. Their marriage inspired many of his songs. Randall Hank Williams, Jr., was born May 26, 1949. Hank and Audrey divorced May 29, 1952, seven months before his death, and they are buried side by side in Montgomery.