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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPBI_twickenham-historic-district_Huntsville-AL.html
Designated by the City of Huntsville, Alabama March 23, 1972. This district is a living museum of American architectural styles dating from 1814.It encompasses about one~half of the original Town of Twickenham, Huntsville's first official name. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPBH_site-of-huntsville-female-college_Huntsville-AL.html
Organized in 1851 under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, so this institution became one of the finest of its kind in the South in the education of girls from the primary through the college level. Its aim was to "secure the symm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPBG_twickenham-historic-district_Huntsville-AL.html
Designated by the City of Huntsville, Alabama March 23, 1972. This district is a living museum of American architectural styles dating from 1814. It encompasses about one~half of the original Town of Twickenham, Huntsville's first official name. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP68_twickenham-historic-district_Huntsville-AL.html
Designated by the City of Huntsville, Alabama March 23, 1972. This district is a living museum of American architectural styles dating from 1814.It encompasses about one~half of the original Town of Twickenham, Huntsville's first offical name. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3O_william-hooper-councill-high-school-site_Huntsville-AL.html
The first public school for African-Americans in the city of Huntsville was named for the founder of the Alabama A&M University. The site, selected by a committee headed by the Rev. W.E. Gaston, was donated by the Davis-Lowe family. Founded in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO15_saint-bartley-primitive-baptist-church_Huntsville-AL.html
Organized 1820 by William Harris, a slave, who was minister more than 50 years. Original church, called Huntsville African Baptist, stood 4 blocks south in Old Georgia Graveyard. In 1870, this church and 3 others formed Indian Creek Primitive Bapt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJJ_site-of-the-huntsville-slave-cemetery_Huntsville-AL.html
On September 3, 1818, the Huntsville City Commissioners purchased two acres of land from LeRoy Pope for a "burying ground" for slaves. This cemetery was located within the NE quarter of Section 1, Township 4, Range 1 West of the Base Meridian. It …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDJ_hermes-guided-missile_Huntsville-AL.html
First American-made guided missile put on public display. First showing was May 14, 1953 at Huntsville, home of the world's largest rocket and guided missile research and development center, Redstone Arsenal.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQY_birthplace-of-general-morgan_Huntsville-AL.html
In this house John Hunt Morgan was born June 1, 1825. This dashing cavalry leader of the Confederacy was killed at Greeneville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1864. This house, built in 1823, was the home, 1849-1949, of the heirs of Stephen Neal, Madison Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLPC_the-leroy-pope-mansion-1814_Huntsville-AL.html
During the original Madison County Land Sales of 1809, LeRoy Pope of Petersburg, GA, secured among other purchases a majority of Section 36, Township 3, Range 1 West, the site of the future town of Twickenham, as Huntsville was originally known. P…
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