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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQR_arthur-d-shores_Birmingham-AL.html
During the first 30 years of his 54-year-old practice, Attorney Shores practiced all over the State of Alabama - from the Tennessee line to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile Bay, and from the Mississippi borders to the Georgia limits. During the period…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQC_fourth-avenue-historic-district_Birmingham-AL.html
Marker front:Prior to 1900 a "black business district" did not exist in Birmingham. In a pattern characteristic of Southern cities found during Reconstruction, black businesses developed alongside those of whites in many sections of the downtown a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQA_north-birmingham_Birmingham-AL.html
On October 1, 1886, the North Birmingham Land Company was formed to develop a planned industrial and residential town on 900 acres of land, formerly part of the Alfred Nathaniel Hawkins plantation north of Village Creek. The plan included sites fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ9_civil-rights-freedom-riders_Birmingham-AL.html
On Mother's Day, May 14, 1961, a group of black and white CORE youth on a "Freedom Ride" from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans arrived by bus at the Birmingham Greyhound terminal. They were riding through the deep south to test a court case, "Boynt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ8_oldest-house-in-shades-valley-irondale-furnace-commissary_Birmingham-AL.html
The original log structure was built c. 1820 - 1830, with the board and batten addition dating to as late as the 1860s. The log cabin was at first one and one-half stories and is believed to be the oldest structure in Shades Valley. Members of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ6_ruhama-baptist-church_Birmingham-AL.html
Constituted in 1819 by pioneer settlers in Territory of Alabama. Oldest Church in Birmingham Baptist Association.Elder Hosea Holcombe served as first pastor.First meeting house was log cabin.Present building is on fourth site.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ4_howard-college_Birmingham-AL.html
Founded in 1841 at Marion in Perry County by Alabama Baptists, Howard College was named for British prison reformer John Howard.
The liberal arts college moved to this site in 1887 and relocated to its present campus in Homewood, Alabama in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPZ_roebuck-spring_Birmingham-AL.html
In 1850 George James Roebuck and his wife Ann Hawkins Roebuck built a log cabin at the mouth of Roebuck Spring. His Influence and leadership led to the area around it to be known as Roebuck. In 1900 Alabama Boys Industrial School was located adjac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPV_roebuck-springs-historic-district_Birmingham-AL.html
Roebuck Springs was the first large residential suburb in Birmingham where planning and development were tied to the automobile, and the first community in the city associated with a golf course development. The 1910 land plan was designed to comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPS_wilson-chapel-and-cemetery_Birmingham-AL.html
Wilson Chapel was built in 1916 as a memorial to James and Frances Wilson by their daughters, Rosa Wilson Eubanks and Minerva Wilson Constantine. At the time of its construction the area was developing into a community of country homes known as Ro…