Post Office Oak

From 1825 to 1847

a cache at the foot

of this tree

served as a post office

for incoming and outgoing

wagon trains

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 56) near Union Street, on the left when traveling east.

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First Presbyterian Church of Connecticut Farms

The First Presbyterian

Church of Connecticut

Farms was built in 1730

and burned to the ground

on June 7, 1780 by the

British and Hessian army.

Reverend James Caldwell

was minister.

Marker is on Stuyvesant Avenue (County Route 619), on the right when traveling south.

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The Bluff: Witness to History

This piece of land has always been called the Bluff, meaning a hill with a broad, steep face. This site’s history suggests another meaning for bluff – to hoodwink.

It was here that a delaying tactic permitted an escape, that a ...

The Cahaba Heart River of Alabama

On Cahaba Mountain to the NW, springs form a fragile stream that grows as it carves through the steep, rocky terrain of Birmingham suburbs, flowing south on the Gulf Coastal Plain to the Alabama River, at the site of Alabama's ...

Battle of Connecticut Farms

7 June 1780

In honor of the American soldiers who lost their lives

in defense of our newly formed nation at the

Battle of Connecticut Farms

7 June 1780

We dedicate this flagpole to all American Servicemen and Women

who served their country during the last ...

2nd Cavalry Division at Fort Clark

In response to the U.S. experience during World War I, the army organized the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions in 1921. However, the 2nd Cavalry Division was not activated until 1941 at Fort Riley, Kansas. Among the units assigned were ...

The First Presbyterian Church

Organized as the Presbyterian Church of Macon on June 18, 1826, by the Rev. Benjamin Gildersleeve and the Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, the church dedicated this house of worship, its third, on September 19, 1858, at the close of the ...

Married Officers' Quarters 8-9

This single-story duplex once served as housing for married officers and their families at Fort Clark. The U.S. Army fort, established in 1852 to defend the western frontier of Texas and the border with Mexico, saw significant growth in the ...

The Friedman Home

Built 1835 by Alfred Battle; purchased 1875 by Bernard Friedman; willed to the city of Tuscaloosa 1965 by Hugo Friedman.

Traditionally a social and cultural center in Tuscaloosa, it was the residence of Virginia Tunstall Clay-Clopton, author of “Belle of the ...

Bollinger Mill/Burfordville Covered Bridge

(Front):

Bollinger Mill

Maj. George Frederick Bollinger built the first mill here in 1800, on a 640-acre grant from Louis Lorimier, Spanish Commandant of Cape Girardeau district of Upper Louisiana. A German Swiss from North Carolina, Bollinger visited this area 1796, and ...