A Tribute to Black Americans – Early 1900’s

Lower End of E. Davis, Commerce Streets

The area to the south was the center of commerce in the early 1900’s. It was here that retail shops, repair shops, hardware stores, restaurants, hotels and services flourished. In this era, blacks owned ...

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 ...

Edgewood Lake (Drained 1940's) Birmingham Motor & Country Club /

(Demolished 1930's)

The developers of the Town of Edgewood, Stephen Smith and Troupe Brazelton, built the beautiful 117.4 acre lake and clubhouse in 1913-15. Amenities included a swimming pool, dance pavilion, fishing, boating and parking for hundreds of automobiles.

Similar ...

Brompton

The house and grounds are not open to the public.

"The pillars of the porch...were speckled with the marks of bullets. Shells and shot had made sad havoc with the walls and the woodwork inside. The windows were shivered, the partitions ...

Mormon Bar

In 1849, a group of Mormons established a tent encampment near here while searching for land to farm. After an influx of gold miners the Mormons moved on. Next came thousands of Chinese miners, merchants and farmers. Mormon Bar became ...

Bernards Township Veterans Monument

A tribute to the armed forces personnel

from Bernards Township who have

served our country. Dedicated with

deep appreciation, we honor their

great courage in the defense of

freedom throughout the world.

Korea 1950-1955

Vietnam 1964-1975

Grenada & Beirut 1982-1984

Panama 1989-1990

Persian Gulf 1990-

*Thomas R. Ike • *Anthony K ...

La Mineta 1850 - Princeton 1854 - Mount Bullion 1862

This site is part of the 44,000 arce [sic] Las Mariposa Land Grant purchased in 1847 by Colonel John C. Fremont for $3,000. In 1850 La Mineta, a mining camp, was established here by Sonoran miners. La Mineta was changed ...

Battle of Chickasawachee Swamp

Near here in Chickasawachee Swamp a decisive battle of the Southern Indian Wars was fought July 3, 1836. About 300 warriors were entrenched on an island in the swamp, after a raid in which they killed several settlers. A force ...

Battery L, 1st New York Light Artillery

Erected 1891 by the State

of New York to commemorate

the detached men of Battery "E",

First N.Y. Lt. Artillery ser-

ving with "L" (Reynolds). - These

works were built and held by

Battery L, Lieutenant George

Beck commanding against as-

saults of infantry and artil-

lery during the ...

Central Pacific’s Other Big Four

When the task of building the C.P.R.R. line over the Sierra provided too much for the Irish, Chinese laborers from Kwantung took over. Called Tze Yap or Four Districts Men, their hard work and perseverance earned them the nickname of ...