Temple Mishkan Israel

Side A

The earliest Jewish settlers came to Selma prior to the Civil War, some as early as the 1830’s. A group of Jewish citizens assembled as the Mishkan Israel Congregation and began meeting in private homes in 1867. The congregation ...

Mormon Battalion

LDS Church

The Narrows

Dec 12 1846

Battle of the Bulls

Erected 1960

Marker is on East Charleston Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Corridor of Flags

Delaware, 1st State

December 7, 1787

1609 • Henry Hudson visited Delaware Bay

1638 • Swedish colonists established Fort Christina, Delaware's first permanent settlement, and founded the colony of New Sweden

1655 • Dutch captured New Sweden

1682 • William Penn took over Delaware counties

1880 ...

John Tyler Morgan House

This was the residence of John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907), one of Alabama’s most honored political and military leaders. Constructed in 1859 by Thomas R. Wetmore, it was purchased by Morgan in 1865, and served for many years as his principal ...

Ware - Baker - Jones House

Built c. 1859 by Henry H. Ware, this house exemplifies the picturesque eclecticism which dominated Alabama architecture after 1850. It mixes elements of the older neoclassicism with the newer Victorian trends.

Prominent owners through the years have included Madison Jackson Williams, ...

9th Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):Erected by the

Ninth Regiment Infantry

Massachusetts Volunteers

2d Brigade, 1st Division

5th Army Corps.

Army of the Potomac.

During the battle of

Gettysburg the Ninth Regt.

was detached from

the 2nd Brigade and it held

this position on

Round Top

casualties 26 men.

(Right):The Ninth Regiment Mass. Vols

was composed ...

Lee - Bender - Butler House

This Greek Revival house was built circa 1850 by Thomas Helm Lee, master builder and owner of early Selma lumber yard. Born in Kentucky, he was the son of Miller Lee of Buckingham County, Virginia and married Mary Jane Blanks ...

Hangman's Tree

Here stood

in early days the

Hangman’s Tree

This marker placed by

Ursula Parlor No.1

N.D.G.W

July 24, 1937

Marker is on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Albert Pike

In Loving Memory

Albert Pike

Arkansas Poet of the Confederacy

Philosopher, Jurist, Philologist,

Ethnologist, Statesman, Man of Letters

Born in Boston Mass, 1809

Died in Washington D.C. 1891

The greater part of his life was passed where his work was done in Arkansas

Marker is on Old Airport ...

First Log Cabin / First Frame House

First Log Cabin

Here in April 1821, three years after the Jackson Purchase, the first home, a round-log cabin, was built by James and William Pore. Only a few Indians remained. James Davis, his wife and three sons, built a shelter ...