East Lake Park

East Lake was planned in 1886 by the East Lake Land Company to help sell home sites to the men who came in the 1870's to work in Birmingham's steel industry. First named Lake Como, after the lake in the ...

F. T. Baptist Church

F. T. Baptist Church was founded nearby as Ragged Mountain Church in 1778. According to tradition the congregation worshipped in a log structure at Sharp Rock until about 1802 before moving to the former F. T. Village by 1804 where ...

Pope’s Army of Virginia

On 26 June 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. John Pope to command the Union army that operated in Virginia. The Corps led by Maj. Gen.

Franz Sigel, who had recently replaced Maj. Gens. John C. Frémont, posted around ...

T.B. Scott Free Library

This building (1911) is an outstanding example of library design in “Prairie School” architecture by Claude and Starck. The library was established (1889) through a bequest from T.B. Scott, lumberman, legislator, and Merrill’s first mayor, and was located in the ...

Alexandria Presbyterian Church

Congregation was formed c1752. Original log structure

replaced in 1802. Present Greek Revival Church built in 1843.

Marker is on Mt. Pleasant - Everittstown Road, on the right when traveling south.

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The Birmingham Public Library / The Linn - Henley Research Libra

Birmingham’s first library was organized in 1886 and in 1891 became a subscription library for the general public. In 1908 the Birmingham Public Library Association established a free public library, and the City created an independent Library Board in 1913. ...

Wethersfield Settlers Memorial

To The Memory

Of The Adventurers From

Watertown, Massachusetts

Who Settled Wethersfield

In 1634

John Oldham • Robert Seeley • John Strickland • Andrew Ward • John Clarke • Leonard Chester • Nathaniel Foote • Abraham Finch • Robert Rose • William Swayne

Erected By

The Wethersfield ...

Alabama's First Capitals

On March 3, 1817, Congress designated the town of St. Stephens on the Tombigbee River north of Mobile as capital of the newly formed Alabama Territory. There in 1818, the territorial legislature named Huntsville as the temporary seat of government ...

Linden Farms

Rockhill-Potts, Agans & Douglass families. Farmed since 1752.

Marker is on Pittstown Road north of Bloomsbury Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort McAllister

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East 4.5 miles, on Great Ogeechee River, Fort McAllister was built 1861-62 to guard the "back door" to Savannah. During 1862-63, it repulsed 7 attacks by armored vessels, some mounting 15-inch guns. Dec. 13, 1864, its small garrison ...