First Presbyterian Church Eutaw, Alabama

Erected 1851, D.B. Anthony Contractor

Organized by Tuscaloosa Presbytery in 1824 as Mesopotamia Presbyterian Church.

John H. Gray first minister 1826-1836

Educational Building Erected 1959

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (State Highway 14) and Wilson Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Athens, Alabama

(Side A):

Athens was incorporated in 1818, one year prior to the admission of Alabama as the 22nd state. It is the seat of Limestone County, created by an act of the Alabama Territorial Legislature. Athens has a legacy of providing ...

Pinson, Alabama

Pinson, one of Alabama’s oldest communities, was settled by General Andrew Jackson’s soldiers in the early 1800s, after victory at Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. The community was originally known as Hagood’s Crossroads for settler Zachariah Hagood and ...

Hardaway Alabama Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Artillery Reserve

McIntosh's Battalion Hurt's Battery

Hardaway Alabama Artillery

Two Whitworth 3 inch Rifles

July 1 The Whitworths were in position to the right of the Chambersburg Pike near the position of Pegram's Battalion. Opened ...

4th Alabama Infantry

July 21, 1861

11:00 a.m.

3rd Brigade (Bee)

Army of the Shenandoah (Johnson), CSA

4th Alabama Infantry

Col. Egbert J. Jones

"Our regiment had scarcely emerged from the timber before a murderous fire was opened on us by the Yankees. Our brave boys marched steadily up ...

The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad

The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad was chartered by the Alabama legislature in the session of 1836-1837. Work was begun at Selma in 1851 and the rails reached Blue Mountain in 1861. Work was terminated during the War Between the States.

In ...

Site - Alabama’s First Constitutional Convention

Here, on July 5, 1819 forty-four delegates from twenty-two Counties in the Alabama Territory met to frame a State Constitution which was accepted and signed August 2, 1819.

Convention leadership was furnished by two Huntsvillians, John Williams Walker, president, and Clement ...

First Bank In Alabama

Planters And Merchants Bank of Huntsville

Housed on this site in brick building

44 ft. x 54 ft

Chartered by Mississippi Territorial Legislature December 11, 1816

Commenced operations October 17, 1817, shortly thereafter made depository for Huntsville Federal Land Office funds.

Charter voided by Proclamation ...

Alabama Veterans Memorial

Liberty Park

            Pearl Harbor

              May 31, 1941

Dear Friend,

I hope all is well with you. I am doing well but due to the present state of ...

Center Point, Alabama

A Great New City Springs Forth

In 1700s, Native Americans occupied the Springs property. Robert Reed's family arrived in the area from North Carolina in 1816. They obtained a land grant; soon others moved to the area. In 1871, Dave Franklin ...