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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2610_rock-run-furnace_Piedmont-AL.html
Put into blast on June 1, 1874, the furnace would change ownership two times prior to being purchased by the Bass Foundry and Machine Co. of Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1880. A rail spur was built from the furnace to Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM260Z_spring-garden_Piedmont-AL.html
Was originally named Ambersonville after one of the early families that settled the community. A post office was established in 1842 as Liberty and changed to Spring Garden in 1844. The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad began rail service through th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIML_the-alabama-tennessee-river-railroad_Piedmont-AL.html
The Alabama Tennessee River Railroad was chartered by the Alabama legislature in the session of 1836-1837. Work was begun at Selma in 1851 and the rails reached Blue Mountain in 1861. Work was terminated during the War Between the States.
In 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIMK_piedmont-first-united-methodist-church_Piedmont-AL.html
Beginning as a Methodist mission in the 1850's, the Piedmont First United Methodist Church was organized in 1867 as the Cross Plains Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by Wilson Johnson and a small band of local Methodist. In 1868 a small church w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIMJ_first-presbyterian-church_Piedmont-AL.html
The First Presbyterian Church of Piedmont was organized March 18, 1890, with seventeen charter members, by Rev. B. F. Bedinger, Presbyterian evangelist. Rev. J. E. McLean was the first minister. First elders were C. W. McMahon and Stephen Ferguson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIMI_cross-plains-piedmont_Piedmont-AL.html
Cross Plains citizens voted for incorporation March 10, 1871. A second vote was cast for reincorporation May 15, 1882. By the acts of the Alabama Legislature of 1888, Cross Plains became Piedmont September 30, 1888. Mayors for both Cross Plains an…