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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ6F_canterbury-united-methodist-church_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
Canterbury is the oldest existing establishment in Mountain Brook. It was organized in 1867 as Irondale Methodist when enough settlers to support the church moved into the area around the Irondale Furnace. The first time the North Alabama Conferen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYJG_the-early-mountain-brook-village-area_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
Once an Indian hunting ground, this land was opened for settlement after the War of 1812. The first settlers, who fought in that war under Andrew Jackson, came here in the early 1820's after the U.S. acquired the land in the Creek Cession of 181. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWT_first-tuberculosis-sanatorium_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
1,000 feet East a small group of tents erected May, 1910 by theAnti Tuberculosis Association of Jefferson Countyconstituted the first effort to aid victims of tuberculosis in North Alabama.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRW_mountain-brook_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
In 1821 the first settlers came to this area, later called Waddell. Large numbers of people first migrated here in 1863 with the construction of the Irondale Furnace. Destroyed in the Civil War, the furnace was rebuilt and operated from 1867 to 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHFZ_wallace-s-mcelwain-irondale-furnace-ruins_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
Wallace S. McElwain(1832-1888)McElwain trained in a gun factory in New York and in a foundry in Ohio before moving to Holly Springs, MS, where he operated Jones, McElwain and Company Iron Foundry. He was well known in the Southeast for his beautif…