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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPR_east-lake-community_Birmingham-AL.html
The Creek Indian Cession of 1814 opened this section of Alabama to settlement. At the time of statehood in 1819 many pioneer families had located here in what later became known as Jones Valley. By 1820 the area was called Ruhama Valley as a resul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPP_east-lake-park_Birmingham-AL.html
East Lake was planned in 1886 by the East Lake Land Company to help sell home sites to the men who came in the 1870's to work in Birmingham's steel industry. First named Lake Como, after the lake in the Italian Alps, it soon came to be called East…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPO_the-birmingham-public-library-the-linn-henley-research-library_Birmingham-AL.html
Birmingham's first library was organized in 1886 and in 1891 became a subscription library for the general public. In 1908 the Birmingham Public Library Association established a free public library, and the City created an independent Library Boa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPN_powell-school_Birmingham-AL.html
Birmingham's first public school was named for Colonel James R. Powell, the city's first elected Mayor. This energetic promoter also served as the first President of the Elyton Land Company (now Birmingham Realty). which founded the city in 1871. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHOP_east-birmingham_Birmingham-AL.html
Marker Front:Founded in 1886 on 600 acres of land, East Birmingham was the agricultural area consisting primarily of dairy farms extending to the present Birmingham airport. The East Birmingham Land Company that developed the area was formed by lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNS_alabamas-constitution-and-statehood_Huntsville-AL.html
Before statehood, the Alabama Territory had only limited rights of self government. Between July 5 and August 2, 1819, forty-four delegates from across the Territory convened in Huntsville to draft a constitution for statehood. Lawyers, merchants,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHNR_alabama-river-the-grand-avenue_Montgomery-AL.html
Twelve miles above Montgomery the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers unite to form the Alabama which meanders over four hundred miles on its way to Mobile Bay. This river has played major role in region's history, being a thoroughfare for Native American…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHGO_the-iron-man-vulcan_Birmingham-AL.html
The giant, cast iron statue you see towering above you is Vulcan, the Roman god of metalwork and the forge. The 56-foot tall statue was commissioned by Birmingham leaders to represent their new, growing city at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Aft…