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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJA_holt-street-baptist-church_Montgomery-AL.html
Congregation founded by former members of Bethel Baptist Church in 1909. Under leadership of Rev. I.S. Fountain, group met for four years in Labor's Hall, corner of Cobb and Mobile Streets, before purchasing this site and constructing church in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJ8_sherman-w-white-jr_Montgomery-AL.html
Side 1:Sherman, Sr. and Nettie White lived at this address on W. Jeff Davis Ave. Both teachers, they taught their children Sherman Jr., Willa, James, and Samson to love their country and value education. Willa, James, and Samson would graduate fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJ6_loveless-school-henry-allen-loveless_Montgomery-AL.html
(side 1)Loveless SchoolMontgomery's first junior and senior high schools for African American students began in Loveless School. Built in 1923 and enlarged in 1930, this building first housed seven grades; the opening of Carver Elementary School a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJ5_day-street-baptist-church_Montgomery-AL.html
Organized from Bethel Baptist Church, congregation founded 1882 with Rev. George Casby as first minister. Originally met in frame building; fund-raising began for this edifice in 1906. Designed by Wallace Rayfield, Tuskegee Institute architect and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CFK_abner-mcgehee-early-alabama-entrepreneur_Montgomery-AL.html
(Side 1)Abner McGehee
Born Feb. 17, 1779 in Prince Edward County, VA, nephew of John Scott, founder of Alabama Town which in 1819 joined New Philadelphia to become Montgomery. Reared in the Broad River area of northeast Georgia, he became an af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CFG_teague-road_Montgomery-AL.html
This 2.8-mile road connecting U.S. highways 331 and 31 first appeared on Montgomery County road maps in 1928. Land for the road was deeded to Montgomery County in September 1926 by local landowners from the Teague, Bellingrath and Matthews familie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CC2_camellia-designated-alabama-state-flower_Montgomery-AL.html
The Alabama Legislature approved a bill sponsored by Rep. T.E. Martin of Montgomery County in 1927 that designated the Goldenrod the official state flower. It became law on Sept. 6, 1927, the same day that the Yellowhammer became the official stat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAK_marquis-de-lafayette_Montgomery-AL.html
On this site stood, until December 1899, the house in which Marquis de Lafayette was given a public reception and ball, April 4, 1825, while on his last tour through the United States.
This tablet is placed by the Society of the Sons of the Rev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAA_the-montgomery-slave-trade-warehouses-used-in-the-slave-trade_Montgomery-AL.html
Side 1The Montgomery Slave TradeMontgomery had grown into one of the most prominent slave trading communities in Alabama by 1860. At the start of the Civil War, the city had a larger slave population than Mobile, New Orleans, or Natchez, Mississip…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CA9_the-domestic-slave-trade-slave-transportation-to-montgomery_Montgomery-AL.html
Side 1The Domestic Slave TradeBeginning in the seventeenth century, millions of African people were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and shipped to the Americas as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In 1808, the united States Congress banned the …