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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8C_decatur-county_Woodville-AL.html
Created by an Act of the Legislature on December 7, 1821, Decatur County was comprised of portions of Madison and Jackson Counties. "Old Woodville," two miles north along County Highway 7, was designated as the County Seat. An 1823-?24 completed s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4F_bellefonte-cemetery-town-of-bellefonte_Scottsboro-AL.html
(Front):Before the courthouse was completed, the community selected a location for a cemetery. The highest elevation in Bellefonte's corporate limits was chosen as the town's burial place. The earliest inscribed marker in Bellefonte Cemetery bears…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIY5_crow-town_Stevenson-AL.html
Side AOne of the Five Lower Towns established by the Chickamauga Cherokees in 1782 under the leadership of Dragging Canoe. Territorial Governor William Blount reported to the Secretary of War in 1792 that: "Crow Town lies on the north side of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMILD_fort-harker_Stevenson-AL.html
Constructed by the Union Army in the summer of 1862 and expanded in 1864, using soldiers and freed slaves, Ft. Harker was built on a broad hill a quarter mile east of town. It overlooked Crow Creek and was well within firing range of Stevenson's s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEQ3_stevenson-depot-and-hotel_Stevenson-AL.html
A one-story depot building was constructed here in 1853, when the railroad was first laid through Stevenson. That building burned after the Civil War and was replaced by the present brick depot and hotel in 1872.
During the Civil War, Stevenso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEPW_jackson-county-courthouse-and-the-scottsboro-boys_Scottsboro-AL.html
Marker front:Constructed in 1911-1912 and designed by architect Richard H. Hunt, the Jackson County Courthouse is a Neo-Classical, brick building situated on a town square in Scottsboro, the county seat of Jackson County. The front, two-story port…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEPU_gen-andrew-jackson_Scottsboro-AL.html
Jackson County was created by the State Legislature on December 13, 1819 while in session in Huntsville, Ala. The county was named in honor of Gen. Andrew Jackson who was visiting in Huntsville at the time.This Statue was presented by the Citizens…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEPS_robert-thomas-scott_Scottsboro-AL.html
Planter, tavern operator, newspaper editor, legislator, and land developer, he sought in vain to have the Jackson County seat moved from Bellefont to the settlement that bore his name. After his death in 1863, his widow reached an agreement in 186…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEPQ_scottsboro-railroad-depot_Scottsboro-AL.html
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company constructed the Scottsboro Railroad Depot in 1860-1861 as a passenger and freight facility. The rail line ran throughout the Confederacy and the Union considered its capture vital to cutting off supplies…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBTR_trail-of-tears_Bridgeport-AL.html
In May 1838 soldiers, under the command of U.S. Army General Winfield Scott, began rounding up Cherokee Indians in this area who had refused to move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. About 16,000 Cherokees were placed in stockades in Tennes…