Thomas J. Jarvis

Governor, 1879 - 1885;

Minister to Brazil; U.S.

Senator; was born in a

house which stood here.

Marker is on Caratoke Highway (U.S. 158), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Col. David Dubose Gaillard

Engineer Of The Panama Canal

[Front]:

Born at Fulton Crossroads, Sept. 4, 1859, David DuBose Gaillard spent his boyhood in this section. He was graduated from West Point in 1884, rising to rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers. During the Spanish American War ...

Martin's Hundred Church

The first Martin's Hundred Parish church was probably built at Wolstenholme Town, an early 17th-century settlement that was located a mile southeast of here. None of the structures excavated there have been identified as a church; it may have been ...

Anthia Brady Hughes

1868-1949

Anthia Brady worked on riverboats on the Tennessee River in the late 1800s. After her marriage, Anthia Brady Hughes opened Hughes Studio in McMinnville in 1898. In 1918, her daughter, Willie, entered McMinnville's Southern School of Photography. Willie joined her ...

Harrison Brothers Hardware

Established 1879

Harrison Brothers, the oldest operating hardware store in Alabama, was founded in 1879 when James B. Daniel and T. Harrison opened a tobacco shop on Jefferson Street. In 1897 they purchased this building on South Side Square and expanded ...

Methodism brought into area 1807 First United Methodist Church

Huntsville, Alabama

Methodist Society organized at Hunt’s Spring prior to formation of Madison County, served 1808-1820 by Flint Circuit traveling ministers. First Church built 1821 NW corner Clinton and Gallatin Streets. Present site acquired 1832, church completed 1834, occupied and accidentally ...

Commanding Officer’s Quarters

Governors Island

This imposing residence is the Commanding Officer’s Quarters, also known as the Admiral’s House (after the most recent Coast Guard residents.) Built in the Greek revival style, it was completed in 1843. The house was designed by prominent ...

Orange County / Louisa County

Area 359 Square Miles / Area 516 Square Miles

Orange County. Formed in 1734 from Spotsylvania, and named for the Prince of Orange, who in that year married Princess Anne, daughter of King George II. President James Madison lived in this ...

First Presbyterian Church

Huntsville, Alabama

Organized June 15, 1818 by the Rev. Gideon Blackburn, D.D.

One of the state’s oldest Presbyterian churches.

This site was selected for the first church building, dedicated on Oct. 13, 1822. The second and present, sanctuary was dedicated ...

Flight on Governors Island

Governors Island

The new Governors Island landfill was only just complete – a largely empty dust blown expanse of over 100 acres – when it gained fame for its role in the budding aviation industry. In 1909, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration ...