Waterloo

Settled 1819~Incorporated 1832

One of Alabama's oldest incorporated towns. Waterloo was an important Tennessee river ports during the steamboat ear. In low~ water season after large boats from Louisville, Cincinnati and other places downriver unloaded here: smaller craft transported goods and ...

Prehistoric Native Americans / Historic Native Americans

(Circa 8,000 B.C. ~1500 A.D.) / (Circa 1550 A.D.~ 1816 A.D.)

Side A

This area near the mouth of Cypress Creek was inhabited by Archaic People as early as 8,000 B.C. Their main food consisted of freshwater mollusks from the river.

(These mussels ...

Atticus Finch: Lawyer - Hero

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." These words of Charles Lamb are the epigraph to Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird", a novel about childhood and about a great and noble lawyer, Atticus Finch. The legal profession has in Atticus ...

McFarland Park and Recreation Area

This bottom land serves as a reservoir for TVA's flood control program.

Florence leases it for recreational purposes when not being used by TVA.

Major Robert McFarland, a native of Ireland, his wife, Kate Armstead McFarland, and their seven children resided ...

A County Older Than The State

Monroe County

Created in 1815 by proclamation of Governor of Mississippi Territory from lands ceded by Creek Indians in Treaty of Ft. Jackson, 1814.

Named for President James Monroe, fifth President of U.S.., 1817-25, who purchased Florida from Spain, proclaimed the "Monroe ...

Stankiewicz's Battery

In February 1862 Capt. Peter K. Stankiewicz commanded a battery of one 8-inch howitzer and two 9-pounder iron guns at this location. This battery helped defend against Union Gen. C.F. Smith's attack on Confederate Gen. Simon Buckner's position about ½-mile ...

Birmingham Water Works Company (1887) / Cahaba Pumping Station (

Side A

The Elyton Land Company, which had founded the city of Birmingham in 1871, established a subsidiary, the Birmingham Water Works Company in 1887. Dr. Henry M. Caldwell, President of the Elyton Land Company, contracted with Judge A. O. Lane, ...

Old Colma Railroad Station

Freight Building

In 1870, Southern Pacific Railroad assumed ownership of the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, which had originally been opened as an independent railroad in 1863. The second stop south of San Francisco, in what was the center of ...

South Water Street

This was Chicago’s main business street in 1834, connecting the village with Fort Dearborn. Years before this also was the site of a trading post with the Indians.

Erected by

Chicago’s Charter Jubilee

Authenticated by Chicago Historical Society

1937

City of Chicago

Incorporated 4th March

1837

Marker is ...

The Great Stone Viaduct

Construction of this Great Stone Viaduct began in 1870 at Union Street as an Ohio approach to the railroad bridge spanning the Ohio River. It was completed to Rose Hill in April 1871, and the entire bridge span connecting Ohio ...