Anthia Brady Hughes

1868-1949

Anthia Brady worked on riverboats on the Tennessee River in the late 1800s. After her marriage, Anthia Brady Hughes opened Hughes Studio in McMinnville in 1898. In 1918, her daughter, Willie, entered McMinnville's Southern School of Photography. Willie joined her ...

Winnebago Indians

Ah-Dah-Wa-Gam Chapter

D. A. R.

In recognition of the Loyalty & Patriotism

of the

Winnebago Indians

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Corporal Foster DeCorah

Robert DeCorah · Jesse Thompson

Mike Standing Water · Dewey Mike

Nelson R. DeLaRonde · ...

Harrison Brothers Hardware

Established 1879

Harrison Brothers, the oldest operating hardware store in Alabama, was founded in 1879 when James B. Daniel and T. Harrison opened a tobacco shop on Jefferson Street. In 1897 they purchased this building on South Side Square and expanded ...

Methodism brought into area 1807 First United Methodist Church

Huntsville, Alabama

Methodist Society organized at Hunt’s Spring prior to formation of Madison County, served 1808-1820 by Flint Circuit traveling ministers. First Church built 1821 NW corner Clinton and Gallatin Streets. Present site acquired 1832, church completed 1834, occupied and accidentally ...

First Presbyterian Church

Huntsville, Alabama

Organized June 15, 1818 by the Rev. Gideon Blackburn, D.D.

One of the state’s oldest Presbyterian churches.

This site was selected for the first church building, dedicated on Oct. 13, 1822. The second and present, sanctuary was dedicated ...

La Bahia Road

One of the first overland routes used by European explorers of Texas, La Bahia Road was originally an east-west Indian trail in southeastern Texas and Louisiana. Earlier it may have been an animal trail. Although not as famous, or long, ...

Lebanon Presbyterian Church

1821-1963

[Left Plaque]:

Original building of 1827 replaced by present building in 1963. standing on this rock, the first sermon was preached by Rev. R.B. Carter in 1820. The following ministers have faithfully served this church:

Rev. Richard B. Carter 1821-1831

Rev. Isaac Waddell ...

Summerton Presbyterian Church

[Front]:

This church, founded in 1875 as a mission of the Presbyterian Church in Manning, grew out of occasional services held in the Methodist church before the Civil War. The first worship site, a renovated carriage house, was located ½ ...

Pioneer Hickstown Baptist Church

The first Baptist church of Madison

Begun here for God's glory in 1835, the church was named Madison Baptist Church in 1854 and received its present name in 1922. Founders were Abraham Moseley and R.J. Mays. Early pastors were B. ...

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 ...