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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHGM_union-hill-cemetery-union-hill-methodist-episcopal-church-union-hill-school_Birmingham-AL.html
This cemetery is the final resting place of many of Shades Valley's pioneer residents. A few of the earliest headstones date from the mid-1850s. Descendants of these settlers helped mold the cities of Mountain Brook and Homewood. Located on proper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHGL_union-hill-cemetery_Birmingham-AL.html
Union Hill Cemetery is the burial grounds of many pioneers and early settlers of the Shades Valley area. It was established in the 1870s. but includes gravestones dating back to the early 1850s due to the relocation of two earlier, smaller cemeter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHFZ_wallace-s-mcelwain-irondale-furnace-ruins_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
Wallace S. McElwain(1832-1888)McElwain trained in a gun factory in New York and in a foundry in Ohio before moving to Holly Springs, MS, where he operated Jones, McElwain and Company Iron Foundry. He was well known in the Southeast for his beautif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHF6_trussville-furnace_Trussville-AL.html
Operated on this site under the ownership of seven companies to produce foundry pig iron. Supplied pig iron during World War 1. Closed for the last time in the Spring of 1919. Dismantled in 1933, and the land sold in 1935 for a Federal Housing Pro…
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/HMHCU_fort-mitchell-military-cemetery_Fort-Mitchell-AL.html
This military graveyard was established soon after Fort Mitchell was built by General John Floyd of the Georgia Militia. Located just south of the stockade, the cemetery was used between 1813 and 1840 during the fort's occupation by Georgia and Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHCT_asbury-school-and-mission_Fort-Mitchell-AL.html
In September 1821 Rev. William Capers was sent to Fort Mitchell, by the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to negotiate with the chiefs of the Creek Indian Nations for a mission which would teach their children reading, w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHCQ_john-crowell_Fort-Mitchell-AL.html
Marker Front:Near here is the site where John Crowell lived, died, and is interred. Colonel Crowell was born in Halifax County, North Carolina, on September 18, 1780; moved to Alabama in 1815, having been appointed as Agent of the United States to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHCE_james-cantey_Fort-Mitchell-AL.html
Near here was the home of Confederate Brigadier General James Cantey who arrived in 1849 to operate a plantation owned by his father. Prior to coming to Russell County he had practiced law at his birthplace, Camden, South Carolina, and had represe…