National Historic Landmark- Foster Auditorium

The University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium is nationally significant for its association with the historical movement to desegregate public higher education, and the federal government's efforts to eliminate racial segregation in the United States.

As the site of 1963 "stand in ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Toulouse

The easternmost outpost of French Louisiana Territory, Fort Toulouse (1717-1763) was situated strategically just below the southern tip of the Appalachian highland, at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers.

The fort protected French settlements downstream from Mobile Bay west ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Morgan

Significant in Admiral Farragut's 1864 naval battle that opened Mobile Bay to the Union Navy and sealed off the port of Mobile to Confederate shipping.

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National Historic Landmark- Fort Mitchell Site

Consisting of the archeological remains of two early 19th century palisaded military forts (established 1813 and 1825); the Creek Trading House or Factory (1817-20); the Creek Indian Agency (1821-32); the Thomas Crowell Tavern (c. 1825); two hisotric cemeteries and the ...

National Historic Landmark- First Confederate Capitol

On February 4, 1861, delegates from six Southern States which had seceded from the Union met in Alabama's State Capitol; on February 8, the 37 delegates adopted a "Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America."

A day ...

National Historic Landmark- Episcopal Church of the Nativity

Completed in 1859, the Church of the Nativity is one of the most pristine examples of Ecclesiological Gothic architecture in the South.

It is also one of the least-altered structures by the hand of Frank Wills. The English-born Wills, along ...

National Historic Landmark- U.S.S. Drum

The first of the GATO class of submarines to be completed before World War II, DRUM (1942) represents the standard design for American fleet submarines at the beginning of the war.

They proved to be fast, strong, well-armed, and suited to ...

National Historic Landmark- Dexter Ave. Baptist Church

This small, eclectic-style church (1878) served as the original headquarters of the Montgomery Improvement Association, headed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), which carried out a successful boycott of segregated city buses in 1955.

"The National Register of Historic Places, ...

National Historic Landmark- J.L.M. Curry Home

From 1850 to 1865, this was the home of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903), politician, diplomat, and educator.

An enthusiastic advocate of universal education, Curry, through his work as agent for the George Peabody Education Fund (which promoted "intellectual, moral, ...

National Historic Landmark- Henry D. Clayton House

From 1896 to 1929, this was the home of Henry D. Clayton, Jr. (1857-1929), author of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914), which was designed to enumerate and outlaw a number of unfair trade practices and interlocking arrangements that had been ...