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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQT_brock-drugs-building_Birmingham-AL.html
The Brock building was established in 1915, located at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 18th Street North, was built while the area was residential. The three-story building housed a hotel upstairs that catered to professional musicians and a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQR_arthur-d-shores_Birmingham-AL.html
During the first 30 years of his 54-year-old practice, Attorney Shores practiced all over the State of Alabama - from the Tennessee line to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile Bay, and from the Mississippi borders to the Georgia limits. During the period…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQC_fourth-avenue-historic-district_Birmingham-AL.html
Marker front:Prior to 1900 a "black business district" did not exist in Birmingham. In a pattern characteristic of Southern cities found during Reconstruction, black businesses developed alongside those of whites in many sections of the downtown a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ9_civil-rights-freedom-riders_Birmingham-AL.html
On Mother's Day, May 14, 1961, a group of black and white CORE youth on a "Freedom Ride" from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans arrived by bus at the Birmingham Greyhound terminal. They were riding through the deep south to test a court case, "Boynt…
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/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…
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