Cahaba Drug Store

The Cahaba Drug Store once covered this cellar hole. It was operated by Herbert Hudson and J. D. Craig.

On the same lot were T. L. Craig's large family grocery, Coleman's dry goods store, and Fellows' Jewelry.

All these men were related ...

Thompson Building

Built soon after 1856 by John Thompson operator of Lime Kiln on Posky Hill and stone mason, who built adjoining Traver Building, and many other stone buildings.

Occupied, circa 58, by Meyer & Friedlander, General Merchandise. Later Fred Sackett ran a ...

The Duke of Cahaba

In 1889, Samuel and Sarah Kirkpatrick moved to Selma, leaving their farm and house in the capable hands of their son Clifton (1863-1930). He turned the abandoned remains of Alabama's first capital into a showcase farm of diversified, scientific agriculture, ...

Birthplace of Naval Aviation

On 14 Nov. 1910, off Old Point Comfort across the harbor from here, the U.S. Navy demonstrated that airplanes could be launched from ships. Flying a Curtiss biplane, Eugene Ely took off from a wooden ramp constructed atop the deck ...

The Battles of Trenton, Turning Point of the Revolution

By December of 1776, the Continental Army had withdrawn in disarray from New York, across Central New Jersey and the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. The British were in complacent pursuit, confident that it was only a matter of weeks or ...

Dotson Store Building

ca.1895

During the 1920s, W.F. Dotson ran a harness

shop and shoe store in the building. Later

tenants have been City Transfer & Furniture

Exchange, Cal's Home & Auto Supply and

The Closet, woman's apparel. Miss Kate

Dotson taught music upstairs for 30 years.

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The Return of Kirtland's Warbler

The Kirtland's Warbler was first identified in 1851 from a specimen collected on Dr. Jared Kirtland's Ohio farm. The birds originally depended on fire-created young jack pine forests for summer nesting. Such forests in northern Michigan became their prime global ...

Lot owned by George Washington

George Washington, surveyor for Lord Fairfax, visited "ye fam'd warm springs" first, Mar. 17, 1748. Later he brought his family "to try the effect of the waters" in 1768. When "Ye Town of Bath" was incorporated in October 1776, Washington ...

Bristol

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Bristol

Bristol was originally a part of Farmington. In 1663 an easterly portion called "Poland" was granted to Thomas Barnes and three others. The area which later became Bristol was allotted in 1721 to Farmington settlers. In 1727 Daniel ...

Greeneville Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Rev. Isaac S. Bonham founded the congregation with thirty charter members in 1841. The present church was begun in 1860 on land purchased from Andrew Johnson by Rev. John P. Holtsinger. The church was shelled on September 4, 1864, the ...