Black Members of the Alabama Legislature Who Served During The R

1868-1869: Senate: Benjamin F. Royal, Bullock; House: Benjamin Alexander, Greene; James H. Alston, Macon; Samuel Blandon, Lee; John Carraway, Mobile; George Cox, Montgomery; Thomas H. Diggs, Barbour; Joseph Drawn, Dallas; Ovide Gregory, Mobile; James K. Greene, Hale; Daniel H. Hall, ...

Confederate Sharpshooters

From several high elevations overlooking the fort, Confederate sharpshooters were able to fire upon any Union soldiers who showed themselves above the walls. Many of the Union officers, including the commander, Major Booth, were picked off by the sharpshooters prior ...

Confederate Water Batteries

The earthen structure nearby, ¾ mile in length, was constructed by the Confederates by order of General Gideon Pillow in July, 1861. Designed to hold 40 artillery pieces, the water batteries were the major works which prevented the passage of ...

Site of San Justo Ranch Home

Site of San Justo Ranch Home

of

Colonel W.W. Hollister

for whom

this city was named

at its founding in 1868

Marker placed by San Benito County Historical Society

Copa de Oro Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West

1965

Marker is on 4th Street west of Monterey Street, ...

Five Points South

This neighborhoods developed in the 1880s as one of Birmingham's first streetcar suburbs. It was the Town of Highlands from 1887 to 1893, when it became part of the City of Birmingham. The heart of the neighborhood was Five Points ...

The Townsite of Agua Fria, California

This mining town became the seat of justice of Mariposa County when on February 18,1850, the State Legislature divided the state into 27 counties. Mariposa County the comprised one-fifth of the entire state and included what are Mariposa, Tulare, Merced, ...

First Tuberculosis Sanatorium

1,000 feet East a small group of tents erected May, 1910 by the

Anti Tuberculosis Association of Jefferson County

constituted the first effort to aid victims of tuberculosis in North Alabama.

Marker is on Fairway Drive east of Cahaba Road, on the right ...

Proffit Historic District

Ben Brown and other newly freed slaves, who

founded the community after the Civil

War, first named the settlement Egypt and then Bethel.

About 1881, the community became known as Proffit when the Virginia Midland Railway placed

a stop here, stimulating further development

between 1890 ...

Agua Fria

Discoverd by Sonoran miners in the early summer of 1849. It was located about a quarter mile above the two springs of cold water from which the town derived its name.

Aqua Fria was the first county seat from Feb. 18, ...

Confederate Gun Shop

Confederate Gun Shop

Which made Dickson-Nelson rifles

1864 – 1865

Marker is at the intersection of East Lee Street (Georgia Route 32) and Stonewall Street SE, on the right when traveling east on East Lee Street.

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