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Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center.

The Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center opened in 1985.

Housed in the former city library, the museum contains an exhibit of the geological history of Sylacauga marble along with works by the Italian sculptor and quarry investor Giuseppe Moretti, his assistant Geneva Mercer, and contemporary artists Frank Fleming and Craigger Browne.

The museum's Native Sons Gallery honors U. S. congressman William Flynt Nichols, U. S. Army Lieutenant General James W. Crysel, whose 33-year military career included receiving the Distinguished Service Medal, and singer and actor Jim Nabors, a 1947 graduate of Sylacauga High School.