Brush Creek Campground

On September 2, 1811, James Nelson deeded to trustees William Nelson, William Duzan, James King, Jacob Hoss and John R. Boring, 4 acres and 8 poles to be used by the Methodist Episcopal Church for a house of worship. For ...

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church / George Ward 1867-1940

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church

Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills City Hall. The church purchased the George Ward estate in 1958. On the property was Ward’s home, “Vestavia,” a replica of a Roman temple ...

The Gutzon Borglum House

Avondale Estates

Guzon Borglum, the world famous sculptor of Mt. Rushmore and the first man to work on the Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain, lived in this house from 1924 to 1925. He had begun the Stone Mountain carving in ...

Sibyl Temple

Side A

Sibyl Temple was moved to this site from its original location in 1975. George Ward built it on the brow of his 20-acre mountaintop “Vestavia” estate in 1929. It marked the entrance to the lower 10 acres where he ...

Norwegian Light Beacon And Fog Bell

The light beacon and fog bell in Big Springs International Park were presented as a gift from Norway in 1973.

The light beacon served as on of the guiding lights to the mariner from 1903 to 1966 being situated ...

The Battle of Lake Erie

In September 1813 the British squadron under R. Barclay sailed from Amherstburg to collect desperately needed food supplies. They were met by the larger, more heavily armed American squadron commanded by O. Perry. The British had the initial advantage of ...

The Carillon Battlefield

In the mid-18th century, this battlefield was a focal point in the Seven Years’ War, a world war between France and Great Britain. Here the two super-powers struggled for control of the Lake Champlain Lake George water highway, the strategic ...

Indiantown Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1757 with John James and Robert Wilson as founding elders. Burned by the British in 1780 as “a sedition shop.” Rebuilt after the Revolution. Present building begun in 1830, remodelled in 1919. Major John James, Revolutionary hero, is ...

First Presbyterian Church Memorial Chapel

Built 1874

The First Presbyterian Church was the City's first Protestant church and an early significant religious institution of the City.

Commemorated by City of Livermore Historic Preservation Commission

May 2007

Marker is at the intersection of Fourth Street and S K Street on ...

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 ...