The Townsite of Agua Fria, California

This mining town became the seat of justice of Mariposa County when on February 18,1850, the State Legislature divided the state into 27 counties. Mariposa County the comprised one-fifth of the entire state and included what are Mariposa, Tulare, Merced, ...

A Tribute to Black Americans – Early 1900’s

Lower End of E. Davis, Commerce Streets

The area to the south was the center of commerce in the early 1900’s. It was here that retail shops, repair shops, hardware stores, restaurants, hotels and services flourished. In this era, blacks owned ...

Shrum Indian Mound

One of the last remaining

earthen mounds in this

area of Ohio. Built by Native

American people of the

Adena Culture (800 BC-100 AD).

The land was deeded to the

Ohio Historical Society in

1928 by the Shrum Family.

Marker is on McKinley Avenue ½ mile south of ...

First Tuberculosis Sanatorium

1,000 feet East a small group of tents erected May, 1910 by the

Anti Tuberculosis Association of Jefferson County

constituted the first effort to aid victims of tuberculosis in North Alabama.

Marker is on Fairway Drive east of Cahaba Road, on the right ...

Edgewood Lake (Drained 1940's) Birmingham Motor & Country Club /

(Demolished 1930's)

The developers of the Town of Edgewood, Stephen Smith and Troupe Brazelton, built the beautiful 117.4 acre lake and clubhouse in 1913-15. Amenities included a swimming pool, dance pavilion, fishing, boating and parking for hundreds of automobiles.

Similar ...

Proffit Historic District

Ben Brown and other newly freed slaves, who

founded the community after the Civil

War, first named the settlement Egypt and then Bethel.

About 1881, the community became known as Proffit when the Virginia Midland Railway placed

a stop here, stimulating further development

between 1890 ...

Agua Fria

Discoverd by Sonoran miners in the early summer of 1849. It was located about a quarter mile above the two springs of cold water from which the town derived its name.

Aqua Fria was the first county seat from Feb. 18, ...

Emanuel AME Church

Emanuel A.M.E. Church is rooted in the African Methodist Society that was formed soon after the founding in 1772 of the Methodist Society in Portsmouth. The African Society met independently until Nat Turner's insurrection in 1831, worshiped with white Methodists ...

Brompton

The house and grounds are not open to the public.

"The pillars of the porch...were speckled with the marks of bullets. Shells and shot had made sad havoc with the walls and the woodwork inside. The windows were shivered, the partitions ...

Mormon Bar

In 1849, a group of Mormons established a tent encampment near here while searching for land to farm. After an influx of gold miners the Mormons moved on. Next came thousands of Chinese miners, merchants and farmers. Mormon Bar became ...