Pauline Bray Fletcher

1878 - 1970

In Tribute to

Pauline Bray Fletcher

1878 - 1970

The First Black Registered Nurse of Alabama

Through self-sacrifice, perseverance founded in 1926 Camp Pauline Bray Fletcher.

Renewing the faith and the good health of all black children.

Marker is at the intersection 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 ...

Blocton / Blocton Coke Ovens

Blocton

Centered around the coke ovens, Blocton, first called Gresham, was the Cahaba Coal Mining Company town founded by Truman H. Aldrich in 1883-84. Other company officers included W. A. Clark of Muscatine, Iowa, and Cornelius Cadle, Jr., the town's first ...

William Sell Jr. Memorial Bridge

First Place Award Winner

In the 1972 Federal Highways Administration Contest as the outstanding example of a bridge, overpass, tunnel or other highway structure in the United States.

“This is the way a bridge should look.”

Marker is on California Highway 49 (State ...

Belle Ellen

One and a half miles northeast of here, the mining town of Belle Ellen was established by the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company in the fall of 1895 and named for Henry F. DeBardeleben's daughter, Belle, and wife, Ellen. ...

Benton Family Cemetery

"Benton-Oldham Cemetery"

Located on the site of the original Benton homestead, this cemetery was founded July 12, 1842, with the burial of early Shelby County settler Jesse Benton (1796-1842). All who rest herein are members of the Benton family by birth, ...

Trade Links – River Borne

About 11,000 years ago, Native people moved into what is now Wisconsin. In the Chippewa [Ojibwe] language, Wisconsin means "gathering of the waters."

The Native American found a land of many possibilities. Animals such as mammoth, mastodon, moose, and giant beaver ...

Bishop Francis Asbury

Considered "The Father of American

Methodism" arrived in America 1771

calm in temperament, courageous,

and untiring in effort, this

"Prophet of the long road" was

foremost among early American

circuit riders and Colonists

Marker is on N. Lakeshore Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James LeRetilley Building - 1847

James LeRetilley Sr. purchased the building in 1849, a year before his death. In 1825, he moved to Caldersburgh from Muskingum County and opened a general store. He was the first postmaster in Caldersburgh (1826). After the canal opened, LeRetilley ...

Mt. Buckingham School

This school was originally two stories and was built in Georgetown about 1878. At that time it was called the Snow Creek School. Space was limited so the school was dismantled and moved to a larger site in 1910. The ...