National Historic Landmark- U.S.S. Alabama

Commissioned in August 1942, the 35,000-ton ALABAMA is one of only two surviving SOUTH DAKOTA class battleships built as part of America's preparations for war should it come.

ALABAMA spent 40 months in active service in the Pacific during the Second ...

Pell City, Alabama

The town charter for Pell City was granted in 1887. The town was named for George Hamilton Pell, a prominent New York industrialist and president of the East and West Railroad. In 1901, the town was almost deserted when a ...

Salem, Alabama

Founded 1835

Side A:

Among the earliest settlers were the families of Henry Crowder, Dr. D. W. Floyd, Charles Nelms, W. W. Burt, George Heard, John Askew, Moses Pruitt, and Dr. McCoy. Rev. F. L. Cherry, leading historian of East Alabama’s first ...

Auburn - Alabama

Settled by Judge J. J. Harper and others

from Harris County, Georgia, in 1836.

This region was opened to settlement

in 1836-37 by the removal of the

Creek Indians to lands west

of the Mississippi River.

Erected by

The Alabama Officers Club

Daughters of the American Revolution

March ...

Original Site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

(Front)

Original site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (now located at Normal, Alabama)

Legislature approved 9 December 1873 "a normal school for the education of colored teachers" in Huntsville. Ex-slave William Hooper Councill founder and first president. Classes began May ...

The Depot / Opp, Alabama

The Depot

In 1900, the L&N Railroad won the right to establish the railroad through this area. The town is named for Henry Opp, who represented L&N in successful legal negotiations. The coming of the railroad consolidated the surrounding areas and ...

Alabama A&M University former names / Alabama Agricultural and M

Normal, Alabama

Alabama A&M University former names

1873 - Colored Normal School at Huntsville

1885 - The Huntsville State Colored Normal and Industrial School

1896 - The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes

1919 - The State Agricultural and ...

Town of Alabama

Est. 1826. originally named Gerrysville, was changed to Alabama in 1828. Hamlets are Alabama Center, Basom, South Alabama & Wheatville

Marker is on Judge Road (New York Route 63) east of Knowlesville Road, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Alabam

At the height of Hoover Dam construction, more than 7,000 men labored in Black Canyon. Some jobs were glamorous and exciting, such as the high scalers who swung over the canyon on ropes or the cableway operators who kept concrete ...

University of Alabama

Endowed by Congress 1819

Ordained by State constitution 1819

And established by

General Assembly 1820

Instruction Begun 1831

Unofficial Training School

Confederate Officers 1861-65

Destroyed by Federal Army

April 4, 1865, Rebuilding Begun 1867

and Reopened 1868.

Marker can be reached from University Boulevard west of 6th Avenue, on the ...