National Historic Landmark- Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator

Essentially a large water tank 75' in diameter and 40' deep, this facility was designed to provide a simulated zero-gravity environment in which engineers, designers, and astronauts could perform, for extended periods of time, the various phases of research needed ...

National Historic Landmark- Ivy Green (Helen Keller Birthplace)

This ten acre site is associated with Helen Keller (1880-1968), author and lecturer. The property includes the cottage where Keller was born and the house where she spent her early childhood (1880-1888), and the water pump, site of the communication ...

National Historic Landmark- Government St. Presbyterian Church

Completed in 1836, Government Street Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest and least-altered Greek Revival style houses of worship remaining in the United States.

The building also illustrates one of the earliest estant religious usages in America of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Gaineswood Plantation

Begun in 1842 and modified in stages over eighteen years (1843-1861), Gaineswood is one of America's most unusual neoclassical Greek Revival-style mansions.

Amateur architect and cotton planter Nathan Bryan Whitfield refined his mansion with the help of skilled African-American craftsmen ...

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- Dexter Ave. Baptist Church

This small, eclectic-style church (1878) served as the original headquarters of the Montgomery Improvement Association, headed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), which carried out a successful boycott of segregated city buses in 1955.

"The National Register of Historic Places, ...

National Historic Landmark- Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Brown Chapel was the headquarters of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and the starting point of ...

National Historic Landmark- Bethel Baptist Church

The Bethel Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Guardhouse are associated with the first organized movement of the modern civil rights movement that attacked multiple aspects of segregation.

While earlier organized movements focused on bus segregation, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human ...

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 ...