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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, ...

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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 ...

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National Historic Landmark- Mobile City Hall

Completed in 1858 and built as a combination city hall and marketplace, this structure is an excellent example of the trend in 19th-century America toward structures combining more than one civic function.

Italianate detailing includes wide bracketed eaves and a ...

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National Historic Landmark- Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Brown Chapel was the headquarters of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and the starting point of ...

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National Historic Landmark- Bethel Baptist Church

The Bethel Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Guardhouse are associated with the first organized movement of the modern civil rights movement that attacked multiple aspects of segregation.

While earlier organized movements focused on bus segregation, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human ...

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National Historic Landmark- Barton Hall

Constructed in the 1840s, this is an unusually sophisticated Greek Revival style plantation house with small Doric entrance and limestone-paved rear courtyard.

The interior contains one of the South's most breathtaking stairways, climbing in a series of double flights and ...

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National Historic Landmark- Apalachicola Fort Site

The northernmost Spanish outpost on the Chattachoochee River, the wattle-and-daub blockhouse was completed in 1690 to prevent the English from gaining a foothold among the Lower Creek Indians, who had rejected Spanish missionaries and accepted English traders. The post was ...

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National Historic Landmark- U.S.S. Alabama

Commissioned in August 1942, the 35,000-ton ALABAMA is one of only two surviving SOUTH DAKOTA class battleships built as part of America's preparations for war should it come.

ALABAMA spent 40 months in active service in the Pacific during the Second ...

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National Historic Landmark- New Orleans Cotton Exchange

The New Orleans Cotton Exchange was incorporated in 1871. The purpose of the organization was to help to standardize and make accessible information related to the cotton industry, thereby stabilizing the often erratic and chaotic speculative market pricing. At the ...

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National Historic Landmark - Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop

Built sometime between 1722 and 1732, this building is reputed to be the oldest structure used as a bar in the United States.

The structure and fence are in the old French Provincial Louis XV or Briquette-Entre-Poteauxe style used in ...

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