National Historic Landmark- Foster Auditorium

The University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium is nationally significant for its association with the historical movement to desegregate public higher education, and the federal government's efforts to eliminate racial segregation in the United States.

As the site of 1963 "stand in ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Toulouse

The easternmost outpost of French Louisiana Territory, Fort Toulouse (1717-1763) was situated strategically just below the southern tip of the Appalachian highland, at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers.

The fort protected French settlements downstream from Mobile Bay west ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Morgan

Significant in Admiral Farragut's 1864 naval battle that opened Mobile Bay to the Union Navy and sealed off the port of Mobile to Confederate shipping.

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National Historic Landmark- Fort Mitchell Site

Consisting of the archeological remains of two early 19th century palisaded military forts (established 1813 and 1825); the Creek Trading House or Factory (1817-20); the Creek Indian Agency (1821-32); the Thomas Crowell Tavern (c. 1825); two hisotric cemeteries and the ...

National Historic Landmark- First Confederate Capitol

On February 4, 1861, delegates from six Southern States which had seceded from the Union met in Alabama's State Capitol; on February 8, the 37 delegates adopted a "Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America."

A day ...

National Historic Landmark- Episcopal Church of the Nativity

Completed in 1859, the Church of the Nativity is one of the most pristine examples of Ecclesiological Gothic architecture in the South.

It is also one of the least-altered structures by the hand of Frank Wills. The English-born Wills, along ...

National Historic Landmark- Apalachicola Fort Site

The northernmost Spanish outpost on the Chattachoochee River, the wattle-and-daub blockhouse was completed in 1690 to prevent the English from gaining a foothold among the Lower Creek Indians, who had rejected Spanish missionaries and accepted English traders. The post was ...

Unearthing Florida- Miami Circle

At the mouth of the Miami River, in the heart of downtown, is an incredible archaeological site, the Miami Circle.

This ancient site was discovered in 1999 doing a survey before new construction. It was something archaeologist Robert Carr had ...

Unearthing Florida- Mission San Luis

Buried just beneath the red clay soil of the Tallahassee hills lies the remains of almost a dozen thriving Spanish Catholic missions.

Shortly after the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, missions were established along the Atlantic coastal plain and ...

Unearthing Florida- Emanuel Point Ship Wreck #1

In shallow water near downtown Pensacola lies the second oldest shipwreck ever found in US waters.

It was part of the 1559 Luna Expedition. Tristan de Luna was a conquistador ad governor charged with establishing the first Spanish settlement north ...