Sand Town, the oldest African American neighborhood in the Spring Hill area of Mobile, Alabama, was established before 1845 by former enslaved and free, indigenous people of color. Its residents built their own homes, school, and places of worship and founded Rising Sons Cemetery. It remained a thriving community of multigenerational descendants of the original property owners. The Spring Hill School for Colored applied to open in 1873 and remained open through the 1948-1949 school year. Mt. Hebron Methodist Church was formed in 1874, and after a fire in 1884, a new church was constructed at the corner of Spring Hill Avenue and Knowles Street. Ancestors, former residents, and veterans are buried in Rising Sons Cemetery at the end of Knowles Street. In 1937, under the guidance of Spring Hill College, St. Augustine Catholic Church, a log cabin, was built for Colored Catholics in the area and existed until 1963, when many African American Catholics in Spring Hill began attending St Ignatius Catholic Church. Windows and doors from St. Augustine Church are installed in Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Zion Church. The community grew from original founding families and residents on Knowles Street, including Christopher Knowles, Lewis Morgan, Elizabeth Johnson, Theodore Johnson, and Manuel Milligan, and expanded from land around Spring Hill Avenue and Knowles Street to include Mordecai and Sheips Lanes and land to Three Mile Creek.