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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP7Z_sibyl-temple_Birmingham-AL.html
Side ASibyl Temple was moved to this site from its original location in 1975. George Ward built it on the brow of his 20-acre mountaintop "Vestavia" estate in 1929. It marked the entrance to the lower 10 acres where he planned a wildflower and bir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOVO_historic-lakeview-cemetery_Birmingham-AL.html
This cemetery is owned by St. John Baptist Church in Edgewater and operated by Scott-McPherson Funeral Home, Inc. US Steel Corporation previously owned the area and it is historically associated with the Edgewater Mining Camp community established…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOJX_dewberry-drugs-and-phenix-insurance-company-buildings_Birmingham-AL.html
The two commercial buildings on this corner lot are some of the earliest surviving business houses in Birmingham. The Dewberry building appeared on the corner about 1881, and it housed the first and longest surviving drug store in the city, starti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNSU_zion-memorial-gardens_Birmingham-AL.html
Mt. Zion Baptist Church began burying here in the mid-1800s. On June 2, 1970, New Grace Hill Cemetery, Inc., a subsidiary of the Booker T. Washington Insurance Company in Birmingham, purchased this cemetery and officially named it Zion Memorial Ga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMQZ_school-of-medicine_Birmingham-AL.html
Front of Marker:Opened as Alabama Medical College in 1859 in Mobile by Josiah C. Nott and other physicians as part of the University of Alabama. Closed by the Civil War in 1861 it reopened in 1868. Reorganized in 1897, it became the Medical Depart…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIZ9_the-park-avenue-historical-district_Birmingham-AL.html
51 Structures, 70% residential, built early 20th century to post World War II period.The 1885 sale of Gardner Hale's land began the housing development. The 33 acre 1924 Independent Presbyterian Church Children's Fresh Air Farm, 1923 Bluff Park El…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIYP_overseers-house_Birmingham-AL.html
This house was provided for the overseer of the 560-acre A. B. Howell Peach Orchard. William Morgan and William and Evan Hale were overseers. The house was purchased by John and Marie Taylor in 1989 and was placed on the Alabama Register of Landma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXK_birmingham-water-works-company-1887-cahaba-pumping-station-1890_Birmingham-AL.html
Side AThe Elyton Land Company, which had founded the city of Birmingham in 1871, established a subsidiary, the Birmingham Water Works Company in 1887. Dr. Henry M. Caldwell, President of the Elyton Land Company, contracted with Judge A. O. Lane, m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAS_united-states-pipe-and-foundry-company_Birmingham-AL.html
On March 3, 1899, the United States Pipe and Foundry Company was incorporated consolidating 14 iron and steel foundries in 9 states. One of these foundries, the Howard-Harrison Iron Company of Bessemer, was founded in 1889. In 1911, the Dimmick Pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIAR_temple-wilson-tutwiler-ii-tutwiler-hotel_Birmingham-AL.html
Temple Wilson Tutwiler, II "Tutwiler Green", this section of Birmingham Green was so named in a resolution passed by the Birmingham City Council to honor the life and work of Temple Tutwiler II, who contributed greatly to the welfare and progre…
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