Florence, Alabama

Side A

The Forks of Cypress plantation was established in 1818 by James and Sarah Jackson. Its home, believed the design of William Nichols, was one of Alabama's great houses, featuring perhaps the earliest peristyle colonnade in America. Built by skilled ...

Gadsden, Alabama

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In the early 1840’s, John S. Moragne, along with Gabriel and Joseph Hughes, began surveying for a city on the banks of the Coosa River near the settlement of Double Springs. The new city would be located on 120 ...

Etowah County, Alabama

Created by state legislature on December 1, 1868 from territory taken from Cherokee, DeKalb, Marshall, Blount, St. Clair and Calhoun Counties, having originally been formed December 7, 1866 as Baine County in honor of Confederate hero David W. Baine. Etowah ...

Gardendale, Alabama

Side A

When Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Nation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, the subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson and other treaties that followed ceded Indian land that made up most

of what is now Alabama. Abraham ...

Ketchum's Alabama Battery

Pond's Brigade - Ruggles' Division

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

Ketchum's Alabama Battery,

Pond's (3d) Brigade, Ruggles' (1st) Division,

Bragg's Corps.

This battery was engaged here at 10.30 A.M. April 7, 1862.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Sherman Road and Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Extension Road, ...

167th Infantry / Alabama’s Own

(4th Alabama)

An Alabama regiment was formed in 1836 to defend Fort Foster in Florida. Same unit, designated the 1st Alabama Volunteers ten years later, served in Mexican War. Mustered again May 4, 1861 as the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, it ...

Alabama Central Female College

After the seat of government was moved to Montgomery in 1847, the Tuscaloosa Capitol and its furnishings were deeded to the University of Alabama to be used for educational purposes.

In 1857, the University Board of Trustees leased the building for ...

22nd Alabama Infantry - 1st Louisiana Infantry

Gladden's Brigade - Withers' Division - Bragg's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

22d Alabama, 1st Louisiana,

Gladden's (1st) Brigade, Withers' (2d) Division,

Bragg's Corps.

These regiments, about 300 men, were engaged here Monday April 7, 1862 until about 10 A.M.

Marker is on State Highway 22 ...

Alabama State University / Tullibody

Side A

Founded 1866 as the Abraham Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Alabama by nine former slaves. Operated from 1868 until 1874 by the American Missionary Association. The school began to receive state funding in 1874, making it the first state-assisted ...

Peterman, Alabama

Front:

The first settlers came to this area in 1815. Major Walker built a grist mill and a log structure was built which served as a school and a religious meeting place for three different denominations. Settlers came to clear land ...