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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ94_cdr-snuffy-smith_Birmingham-AL.html
(First Plaque):Navy pilots typically had their names painted on the side and just below the cockpit of one of the squadron aircraft. Most also had "Call Signs." Some of which because the nickname of the pilot. On the display aircraft this traditio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNSU_zion-memorial-gardens_Birmingham-AL.html
Mt. Zion Baptist Church began burying here in the mid-1800s. On June 2, 1970, New Grace Hill Cemetery, Inc., a subsidiary of the Booker T. Washington Insurance Company in Birmingham, purchased this cemetery and officially named it Zion Memorial Ga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ6_ruhama-baptist-church_Birmingham-AL.html
Constituted in 1819 by pioneer settlers in Territory of Alabama. Oldest Church in Birmingham Baptist Association.Elder Hosea Holcombe served as first pastor.First meeting house was log cabin.Present building is on fourth site.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ4_howard-college_Birmingham-AL.html
Founded in 1841 at Marion in Perry County by Alabama Baptists, Howard College was named for British prison reformer John Howard.
The liberal arts college moved to this site in 1887 and relocated to its present campus in Homewood, Alabama in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPZ_roebuck-spring_Birmingham-AL.html
In 1850 George James Roebuck and his wife Ann Hawkins Roebuck built a log cabin at the mouth of Roebuck Spring. His Influence and leadership led to the area around it to be known as Roebuck. In 1900 Alabama Boys Industrial School was located adjac…
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…