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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT0B_brooksides-unique-heritage-brookside-russian-orthodox-church_Graysville-AL.html
(side A)Brookside's Unique HeritageOriginally settled by the Samuel and Mary "Polly" Fields family in the 1820s, Brookside enjoyed a quiet life as an agricultural community until industrialists discovered rich coal deposits here. Sloss-Sheffield I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT09_downtown-graysville_Graysville-AL.html
(side A)In the latter 1800s and early 1900s, the city of Graysville was called Gin Town. Because Graysville had the only cotton gin for miles around, the town and community grew. As the community grew, the need for businesses and houses of worship…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJS_redmont-park-historic-district_Birmingham-AL.html
Extending across the crest of Red Mountain, is the state's second oldest garden-landscaped residential area. Developed from 1911 to 1935 by Robert Jemison, Jr., Hill Ferguson, and Henry Key Milner using landscape architects C. W. Leavitt of New Yo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPA_doughboy-monument_Bessemer-AL.html
North sideTo the memory of our World War heroes who died that civilization might not perish from the earth. West SideHONOR ROLLWORLD WARAllbright Rufie PVT. Co. D. 167th Inf. KABailey Andrew SGT. Co. D. 167th Inf. DDBailey Jas. T. PVT. Co. D. 9…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ87_virgil-allen-howard_Gardendale-AL.html
Virgil Allen Howard, who was born in South Carolina in 1859, came to Alabama in 1884 seeking employment with the Alabama Waterworks. He and Ollie Grace Hogan were married on July 15, 1903 and made their first home in Gardendale on property they pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ6E_gardendale-alabama_Gardendale-AL.html
Side AWhen Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Nation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, the subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson and other treaties that followed ceded Indian land that made up most of what is now Alabama. Abraham Stout was commi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPT0_the-berry-project_Birmingham-AL.html
This row of buildings from 2009 to 2017 Second Avenue dates from the early years of the 20th century and has undergone a variety of changes and modernizations over the years. Originally part of a larger building that burned in 1944 (now the site o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPSU_s-h-kress-five-and-ten-cent-store_Birmingham-AL.html
Built in 1937, Birmingham's S. H. Kress Five-and-Ten Cent Store was the second completed of the three great mercantile buildings on this intersection. Its construction reflected Kress's confidence in Birmingham's economy and marked a break by its …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPB5_pinson-alabama_Pinson-AL.html
Pinson, one of Alabama's oldest communities, was settled by General Andrew Jackson's soldiers in the early 1800s, after victory at Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. The community was originally known as Hagood's Crossroads for settler Zachari…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPB3_the-clay-community_Pinson-AL.html
The clay soil of the area, first cultivated by Creek Indians, gave this agricultural community it name in 1878 when a post office was established. Clay's historical roots date to the early 1800s through two small communities, Ayres and Self's Beat…
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