North Birmingham

On October 1, 1886, the North Birmingham Land Company was formed to develop a planned industrial and residential town on 900 acres of land, formerly part of the Alfred Nathaniel Hawkins plantation north of Village Creek. The plan included sites ...

Ardoch

Near here was Ardoch Plantation, the home of the McDonalds and Gignilliats from Colonial Days through the Civil War

when it was sold to former slaves. During the Revolutionary War these McDonalds were Loyalists, as were many families of

Coastal ...

Culpeper Court House

1863–64 Winter Encampment

During the winter of 1863-64, Federal officers quartered in many of Culpeper’s homes. The surrounding landscape was dotted with tents and huts for ten square miles as nearly 100,000 soldiers encamped. Gen. U.S. Grant, commander of all Federal ...

Highland County Confederate Monument

(Front):Erected by

Highland Chapter

United Daughters of

the Confederacy

1918

(Back):

To the

Confederate Soldiers

of

Highland County

A Loving Tribute to

the Past, the Present,

and the Future

Marker is on High Street (U.S. 250), on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

American House

American House

occupied this site

1838-1868

The first legislature

in Madison

met here

November 26, 1838

Marker is at the intersection of East Washington Avenue and South Pinckney Street, on the right when traveling west on East Washington Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

USS Colorado BB-45

Dedicated

to the men who served

aboard the U.S.S. Colorado (BB-45)

March 1921-June 1959.

Tarawa • Kwajalein • Eniwetok • Saipan-Guam • Tinian • Leyte • Mindoro • Luzon • Okinawa • Japan.

Dedicated March 21, 1997

Marker can be reached from ...

Civil Rights Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

On Mother's Day, May 14, 1961, a group of black and white CORE youth on a "Freedom Ride" from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans arrived by bus at the Birmingham Greyhound terminal. They were riding through the deep ...

John S. Barbour’s Birthplace

Just to the south stood Catalpa, where John Strode Barbour was born on 29 Dec. 1820. In 1849, he was appointed the state’s representative on the board of directors of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The board elected him president ...

The Convention Army

In 1778 the Continental Congress moved 4,916 British and German troops captured at Saratoga, south from Boston along today's Route 513, crossing the Delaware at Sherrard's Ferry (Frenchtown). Many escaped along the way but 3,600 reached Virginia, to be held ...

Oldest House In Shades Valley / Irondale Furnace Commissary

Cummings - Eastis - Beaumont House

The original log structure was built c. 1820 - 1830, with the board and batten addition dating to as late as the 1860s. The log cabin was at first one and one-half stories and is ...