Joseph William Burke
1835-1900
Lawyer, Industrialist, Patriot
Brigadier General, U.S.A.
Gen. Burke helped rebuild
Alabama’s mining & manufacturing
interests after the Civil War.
He helped establish the Catholic
Church at Jacksonville.
His home, “Bellevue,”
occupied the present site of
Jacksonville State College.
Marker is on University Circle west of North Pelham Road (State Highway 21), on the right.
Courtesy hmdb.org
