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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6F_old-railroad-bridge_Sheffield-AL.html
(obverse)In 1832, the Alabama legislature authorized the Florence Bridge Company to construct this bridge across the Tennessee River. In 1840, it opened as a toll bridge. Twice damaged by storms, it was reopened in 1858 as a double-decked bridge b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR23_first-presbyterian-church_Tuscumbia-AL.html
(obverse)First Presbyterian Church was organized April 13, 1824, by Scots-Irish settlers. The sanctuary, erected in 1827, is the oldest in continuous use in Alabama. Its Georgian Gothic style remains essentially unchanged. The brick walls are laid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ8I_old-railroad-bed_Sheffield-AL.html
Side AAshe Boulevard was built on the early railroad bed which connected Florence and Southport to the main railroad line in Tuscumbia. Trains first traveled along the railroad bed and across the Tennessee River in 1858 after the Memphis and Charl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNWL_lagrange-college_Leighton-AL.html
This is the site ofLaGrange CollegeChartered in 1830 by act ofthe Legislature of AlabamaAn Institution of High Order for menattending chiefly by studentsfrom the southern states.
The college was burned April 28, 1863by Federal Cavalry Commanded…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNTD_president-franklin-delano-roosevelt_Sheffield-AL.html
On Jan. 21, 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an immense crowd a this crossing from his railroad car and promised "to put Muscle Shoals back on the map." He then toured the idle U.S,. Nitrate Plant No. 2 and Wilson Dam with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNTA_history-of-sheffield_Sheffield-AL.html
Side APrehistoric man arrived in this area bout 10,000 years ago. Later Indian cultures left many stone artifacts and pottery vessels.In the 1780s, a French trading post and Indian village were located near the mouth of Spring Creek. The town of Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO8_history-of-tuscumbia-alabama_Tuscumbia-AL.html
The area around the Big Spring was inhabited by prehistoric Native Americans as early as 10,000 years ago. The first settlement was a French trading post and Indian village about 1780 on Cold Water Creek (Spring Creek) near the river. The first pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPF_belle-mont_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Built between 1828 and 1832, Belle Mont is a foremost example of Jeffersonian Palladian Architecture in the deep south and one of Alabama's first great plantation houses.
It was build for Dr. Alexander W. Mitchell, a native of Virginia, and a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJIG_petrified-conifer-tree-petrified-lycopod-tree-stump_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Plaque A 85-90 Million Years Old Possibly a Bald Cypressfrom the Cretaceous Period or the Age of Dinosaurs
Plaque B325 Million Years Old A Member of the Giant Club Mosses from the early Coal Age
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJIF_cold-water-falls_Tuscumbia-AL.html
World's Largest Man-Made Natural Stone Waterfallto be known in existence80 feet wide, 48 feet tall1,780 tons of Colbert County Sandstone4,320,000 gallons of water per day passes over fallsLargest stone weights 77,000 pounds