First Bank In Alabama

Planters And Merchants Bank of Huntsville

Housed on this site in brick building

44 ft. x 54 ft

Chartered by Mississippi Territorial Legislature December 11, 1816

Commenced operations October 17, 1817, shortly thereafter made depository for Huntsville Federal Land Office funds.

Charter voided by Proclamation ...

Albemarle Barracks Burial Site

"In 1779 4,000 prisoners, British and their German auxiliaries, captured at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, marched over 600 miles to quarters, called 'The Barracks', situated a half mile north of this site. Traditionally, some of these prisoners who ...

Roger Lacy (Lacey)

Roger Lacy (Lacey) arrived in Savannah in 1734. While a resident

of the Georgia Colony, he spent most of his time at a trading

post in Augusta. There he gained employment as a trader and served

as the post commander. ...

Artillery Protects the Supply Line

From this ideal position, Loomis' Battery (1st Michigan Light Artilery - six 2.9" Parrott rifles and Guenther's Battery Co. H, 5th U.S. Artillery - six 12 pdr. Napoleons) smashed Confederate attempts to capture the Nashville Pike, the only supply line ...

1849 Plank Road

Route of a toll road from

Amsterdam to Fish House. It

linked the rural economy of

the Sacandaga Vly to rail

& canal access in Amsterdam

Marker is on South 2nd Ave 0.1 miles south of West Main Street ...

Confederate Monument

Erected on November 21, 1905, a handsome monument was dedicated to the Confederate dead by the Virginia Clay Clopton Chapter #1107 United Daughters of the Confederacy of Huntsville, and was unveiled with proper ceremonies in which many veterans of North ...

Bradwell Park

1974

In Memory of Samuel Dowse Bradwell

Founder of Bradwell Institute

on this site in 1871

Built by City of Hinesville

with assistance from HUD and

Liberty County Garden Garden Clubs

( Mayor and List of Councilmen )

Marker is on South Commerce Street near Midway Street, on ...

Union Brotherhood Society

(Front text)

William Mckinley Walthour, Sr. founded the Union Brotherhood Society or "The Society" in March 1932 to help provide for a proper burial of Negro citizens. During this period of segregation and Jim Crow Laws, Negroes were uninsured and had ...

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church

[Front] This church, organized about 1865, held its early services in a nearby brush arbor but built a permanent sanctuary here soon afterwards. Rev. Daniel Humphries, its first pastor, served both Mt. Zion and its sister church St. James 1865-1879. ...

Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home

Mary Flannery O`Connor, novelist and short story writer,was born in Savannah March 25, 1925. She grew up in this house and in later years she referred to it simply as " the house I was raised in." She lived here ...