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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHF4_cahaba-project_Trussville-AL.html
A total of 243 houses and 44 duplex units were constructed from 1936 - 1938 at an overall cost of $2,661,981.26. Cahaba residents rented from the government until 1947, when the houses and duplexes were sold to individuals at prices ranging from $…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHF3_trussville_Trussville-AL.html
The Town of Trussville was named for the Truss Family who emigrated from North Carolina in the early 1820's.Trussville was incorporated in 1947.The present City Hall was constructed in 1959 on land patented in 1821 by Warren Truss.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4Z_confederate-storehouse-burned-by-federal-troops_Trussville-AL.html
On this site stood the stone warehouse of Captain Thomas Truss and Marcus Worthington. Stored here were meats, grains and clothing collected by the Confederate government as a war tax. Disabled C.S.A. veteran Felix M. Wood was receiver of the tax …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH33_jefferson-county-courthouses_Birmingham-AL.html
Side ATerritorial legislature designated home of Maj. Moses Kelly (in Jones Valley) as site of first court in this area of Alabama, 1818.After creation of Jefferson County, 1819, court held at Carrollsville (Powderly) until county seat established…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH00_tuxedo-junction_Birmingham-AL.html
"Tuxedo Junction" was the street car crossing on the Ensley-Fairfield line at this corner in the Tuxedo Park residential area. It also refers to the fraternal dance hall operated in the 1920's and 1930s on the second floor of the adjacent building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGU5_a-history-of-vestavia-hills_Vestavia-Hills-AL.html
In 1924, George Ward, a former mayor of Birmingham, 1905-1909, 1913-1914, visited the City of Rome, Italy. He was so intrigued by the unique beauty of the Temple of the Vestal Virgins on a Roman hilltop that he vowed to build a replica of it on a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOU_mount-calvary-cemetery_Dixiana-AL.html
The oldest marked grave is that of Nancy Paerson, daughter of William S. Turner who was born September 23, 1813 and died September 19, 1830. Jesse Taylor deeded land for this church and graveyard on February 15, 1856.
Listed in the Alabama Hist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOD_wear-cemetery_Pinson-AL.html
Established about 1850, Wear Cemetery is located off Old Springville Road to the northeast at Countryside Circle. In the 1800's the Wear family was among the first settlers of the community later known as Clay. Twenty-three remaining graves were i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGNR_pioneer-massey-cemetery_Trussville-AL.html
Samuel Massey and his brother - in - law, Duke William Glenn, first came to this Territory in February 1814 with Lt. Col Reuben Nash's Regt. South Carolina Volunteer Militia to help defeat the Creek Indians in the War of 1812. Samuel Massey return…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGEQ_rowan-house_Leeds-AL.html
Thomas Rowan, son of Irish immigrants who settled in St. Clair County, Alabama, purchased his first 130 acres at auction and built a house here by c. 1854 that probably forms the core of the two northeast rooms. Heir John Thomas Rowan and his wife…