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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCK_jacksonville_Jacksonville-AL.html
Postoffice established July 20, 1833 as Drayton, Benton County, Alabama. Name changed to Jacksonville Aug. 6, 1834 and county changed to Calhoun Jan. 29, 1858. Office maintained by Confederate Government 1861-1865. Postmasters and dates of appo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCF_the-depot_Jacksonville-AL.html
The Depot was constructed in 1860 by the Selma, Rome and Dalton (GA) Railroad. It was used as a transfer and storage point for Confederate troops and materials during the War Between the States.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCA_chief-ladiga-trail-jacksonville_Jacksonville-AL.html
The Chief Ladiga Trail was named for a Creek Indian leader who signed the Cusseta Treaty in 1832. Under the terms of that agreement, the Creeks gave up claim to their remaining lands in northeast Alabama. Because he had signed the treaty, Ladiga w…
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Life here has long centered on education beginning in 1834 when a one-acre plot of land was reserved for a schoolhouse. Through the years, various institutions of higher learning developed that culminated into present-day Jacksonville State Univer…
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James G. Ryals, Jr. 1883-1885J. Harris Chappell 1885-1886Carleton B. Gibson 1886-1892J. B. Jarrett 1892-1893Jacob Forney, IV 1893-1899Clarence William Daugette 1899-1942Houston Cole 1942-1971Ernest Stone 1971-1981Theron E. Montgomery 1981-1986Haro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOC0_jacksonville-state-university_Jacksonville-AL.html
This Educational Center ofNortheast Alabama Traces its Origin toJacksonville Male Academy 1836Jacksonville Female Academy 1837Calhoun College 1871Calhoun Grange College 1878State Normal School 1883State Teachers College 1929Jacksonville State Col…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOBY_joseph-william-burke_Jacksonville-AL.html
Lawyer, Industrialist, PatriotBrigadier General, U.S.A. Gen. Burke helped rebuildAlabama's mining & manufacturinginterests after the Civil War. He helped establish the CatholicChurch at Jacksonville. His home, "Bellevue,"occupied the present site…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNWI_grace-episcopal-church_Anniston-AL.html
Called "A poem in cedar & stone," its history is intimately related to that of Anniston: Town Founders, Daniel Tyler & Samuel Noble, inspired its conception, funded its construction & caused Woodstock Iron Co. to donate the land on which it was bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNWH_governor-thomas-e-kilby_Anniston-AL.html
Outstanding local industrialist as President, Kilby Steel Company; Chairman, Board of Directors, Alabama Pipe Company; President, City National and Anniston National Banks. Served as Mayor of Anniston (1905-09); State Senator (1911-15); Lieutenant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNVZ_freedom-riders_Anniston-AL.html
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus left Atlanta, GA carrying among its passengers seven members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a.k.a. the "Freedom Riders," on a journey to test interstate bus segregation. The bus was met by an angry mob …
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