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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHXB_forest-park_Birmingham-AL.html
A residential district extending from the crest of Red Mountain to the floor of Jones Valley with roads built along natural land contours. Birmingham real estate promoter and civic leader, Robert Jemison, Jr., began development as Mountain Terrace…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWU_five-points-south_Birmingham-AL.html
This neighborhoods developed in the 1880s as one of Birmingham's first streetcar suburbs. It was the Town of Highlands from 1887 to 1893, when it became part of the City of Birmingham. The heart of the neighborhood was Five Points Circle, a major …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWT_first-tuberculosis-sanatorium_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
1,000 feet East a small group of tents erected May, 1910 by theAnti Tuberculosis Association of Jefferson Countyconstituted the first effort to aid victims of tuberculosis in North Alabama.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWS_edgewood-lake-drained-1940s-birmingham-motor-country-club-edgewood-country-club_Homewood-AL.html
The developers of the Town of Edgewood, Stephen Smith and Troupe Brazelton, built the beautiful 117.4 acre lake and clubhouse in 1913-15. Amenities included a swimming pool, dance pavilion, fishing, boating and parking for hundreds of automobiles.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHWE_edgewood_Birmingham-AL.html
Nathan Byars, II settled here in 1836, followed by William D. Satterwhite in 1853, and Phillip Thomas Griffin and his wife Mary Ann Byars Griffin in 1854. These early settlers cleared land, built homes and farmed in what was a vast wooded wilderne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHTO_turkey-town-monument_Gadsden-AL.html
The surrounding area and this well was part of Turkey's Town, once a capitol of the proud Cherokee Nation. Chief Turkey was the principal chief during the late 1700's.
On October 25, 1864, the Turkey Town Valley Expedition of the XV Corps Union…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRZ_brocks-gap-historic-gateway-to-birmingham_Hoover-AL.html
In 1858, the State of Alabama, wanting to develop coal and iron industries in Jefferson County, Had John T. Milner survey Shades Mountain for the most practical route for the South and North Railroad to cross. He selected Brock's Gap, named for or…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRW_mountain-brook_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
In 1821 the first settlers came to this area, later called Waddell. Large numbers of people first migrated here in 1863 with the construction of the Irondale Furnace. Destroyed in the Civil War, the furnace was rebuilt and operated from 1867 to 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRB_jordan-home_Birmingham-AL.html
Dr. Mortimer Harvie Jordan and his wife, Florence E. Mudd, constructed their home between 1906 and 1908. After service in the Confederate army, Jordan studied medicine in Cincinnati and New York (under Alabama's famous gynecologist, Dr. J. Marion …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR9_donnelly-house_Birmingham-AL.html
This neoclassical structure was built in 1905 for James W. Donnelly, "the father of the Birmingham Library System."
Donnelly moved to Birmingham from his native Cincinnati, Ohio after retiring from Proctor and Gamble. A much respected manufact…