William Bartram, America’s first native born artist-naturalist, passed through Elmore County during the Revolutionary era, making the first scientific notations of its flora, fauna and inhabitants. In 1776 the appointed botanist of Britain’s King . . . — — Map (db m69431) HM
The memorial includes inscriptions on four sides.
Richard Gunter Crommelin
Lieutenant Commander U.S. Navy
January 8, 1917 - July 14, 1945
Young fighter pilot on U.S.S. Yorktown CV-5. Shot
down two Japanese Zeros in Battle of Coral . . . — — Map (db m137263) HM WM
In memory of those who served
and those who made
the supreme sacrifice
in that forgotten war
from Elmore County
Booth Izea PVT AR 11/28/50 Died Capture
Brozell Albert M CPL AR 09/09/50 Killed in Action
Causey Billy J PVT AR 08/17/50 . . . — — Map (db m67935) WM
Constructed in 1924 on five acres, this building was one of nine schools constructed in Elmore County with funding assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Between 1912-32, Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish philanthropist and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and . . . — — Map (db m70548) HM
In honor of the fallen heroes of Elmore County who gave their lives in the Vietnam War
Clark, Richard • Johnson, Joseph W. • Ruffin, James Thomas
Cook, Larry Davidson • Mathis, David Linwood • Smith, John Lee
Cottrell, Willie James • . . . — — Map (db m67932) WM
Dedicated on this Centennial to those Who
Served and Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
Barker, Adolphus · Lewis, Henry
Benton, Edwin J. * · Macon, Preston A. *
Boswell, James A. ** · Martin, Oders M. *
Boyer, James T. · Melton, William H. + . . . — — Map (db m145086) WM
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Baptists settlers scattered along the Coosa River Valley established the church May 26, 1821. For the first twenty years, it was mostly known as the Coosa River Baptist Church. Migrating members sought several locations for the . . . — — Map (db m83723) HM
Built, 1856, dedicated 1857, combining exterior Gothic style with Greek Revival interior. Original part designed as a rectangular block. Wings were added on eastern and western sides in the middle 1900's. At that time a choir rail replaced original . . . — — Map (db m67943) HM
At this site stood Fort Toulouse,
later Fort Jackson, named in honor of
Gen. Andrew Jackson
who on
March 27, 1814,
defeated the Creek Indians in a
decisive battle at Horseshoe Bend.
Erected
by
Peter Forney Chapter D.A.R. . . . — — Map (db m69705) HM
Here stood
Fort Toulouse
A defense against
the Indians
Built by
Bienville
1714
The Alabama Society
of Colonial Dames
preserves the memory
of faithful service
1912 — — Map (db m69567) HM
April 8, 1938
On this day, the Coosa River rose to this level at
this location after heavy rainfall over the Coosa
River basin.
For more information, contact:
National Weather Service Birmingham, Alabama . . . — — Map (db m123857) HM
In 1889, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built,
a series of 31 locks and dams on the Coosa River.
Lock 31 is the last in that series. The project
was intended to assist steamboat travel through
a series of river rapids starting as far north . . . — — Map (db m197783) HM
Here lived Lachlan Mc Gillivray,
a Scotch trader among the Indians.
His wife, Sehoy, was the daughter of
the French Captain, Marchand and
Sehoy of the Creek Tribe of the Wind.
Here was born their son, General
Alexander McGillivray, who went . . . — — Map (db m242547) HM
This earthen mound and an adjacent
village were built by people of the
Mississippian culture who likely had
some relationship to the major mound
center at Moundville near present-day
Tuscaloosa. The Mississippian culture is
believed to have . . . — — Map (db m145084) HM
The New Prospect Baptist
Church, Wetumpka has been
designated as a significant
African American historic
site by the Black Heritage
Council of the Alabama
Historical Commission. — — Map (db m245698) HM
W. B. Doby served as the first President of the Elmore County Teachers Association, Principal of Elmore County Training School, and as an ordained minister in the A.M.E. Church. Local leaders dedicated this school for African-American students on . . . — — Map (db m94614) HM
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The land area which now comprises the City of Wetumpka was inhabited by various Indian cultures prior to the inward migration of the white man at the turn of the 19th century. The largest Indian village near here was located on . . . — — Map (db m67936) HM
The ridges located here are the remnants of a six-mile diameter circular feature created some 85 million years ago by an estimated 1,000-foot diameter asteroid. The area at the time of impact was a shallow sea. The ridges consist of a variety of . . . — — Map (db m67939) HM
A shallow offshore area of the ancient Gulf of Mexico eventually became the land upon which downtown Wetumpka was built and through which today's Coosa River flows. This area also was the site of Alabama's greatest natural disaster and the "bull's . . . — — Map (db m222632) HM
You are on the northwestern rim of the Wetumpka Impact Crater. In this area of
the crater rim, there are several man-made cuts into the metamorphic bedrock.
Mica schist forms the bedrock in this area down to depths of several thousand feet. After . . . — — Map (db m189013) HM
The beautiful vista across the Wetumpka Impact Crater is best seen
from the highest point on the northwestern rim here at Bald Knob.
A favored area for communication towers, Bald Knob is almost 600
feet above sea level. Looking down the power . . . — — Map (db m189019) HM
You are on the crater floor inside the western rim of the Wetumpka Impact Crater, in an area called the "cliffs." After the meteor's impact, there was a massive landslide from the southern rim that brought vast quantities of clay and sandy sediment . . . — — Map (db m189021) HM
This section of Buck Ridge Road is unusual because you can easily see hills created on both sides of the road that are related to the impact of a large meteor 85 million years ago. These hills contain large boulders that came to rest near the . . . — — Map (db m189024) HM
Because of the cleared natural gas pipeline, this area provides an excellent view
of the eastern rim of the Wetumpka Impact Crater. The notch on the far rim is
over a mile away. On the west side of Trotters Trail (behind you) the high point
is . . . — — Map (db m189029) HM
From a distance, one of the best vistas of the Wetumpka Impact Crater is from the Wetumpka Sports Complex. Your view here is of the highest remains of the northwestern rim of the crater. In the center, several communication towers are located on . . . — — Map (db m189035) HM
The rock layers here in the Coosa River are part of
the deeply eroded western rim of the Wetumpka
Impact Crater. The Coosa River curves around the
rim in the downtown area and these rock layers tilt
away from the crater center, typical of . . . — — Map (db m189038) HM
The Louisville & Nashville Depot was built in Wetumpka in 1906 and exemplifies the L&N plan for small town depots. The station served as a passenger and freight depot until service was terminated in the 1930s and as a freight depot until 1973. In . . . — — Map (db m83724) HM
Completed in 1854, this building was the third Methodist Church building erected in Wetumpka and served both black and white congregations. Transitional exterior and interior architecture features elegant simplicity of Greek revival styles. . . . — — Map (db m83725) HM
Wetumpka Timeline (Prehistory – 1924)
85 Million Years Ago
A meteor strikes Wetumpka during the age
of the dinosaurs creating a five-mile wide
impact crater blasted into the bedrock.
1714
At the invitation of the Creeks and . . . — — Map (db m222651) HM
In January 1839, Governor Arthur P. Bagby and the State
Legislature enacted a criminal code authorizing a state penitentiary
system for Alabama. A cornerstone was laid in October 1839 on
property purchased adjacent to the Coosa River in Wetumpka . . . — — Map (db m222614) HM
In 1834, the Wetumpka Toll Bridge Co. built the first of four bridges spanning the Coosa River at this site. It was destroyed in a flood in 1844. A second toll bridge was completed the same year by John Godwin whose slave, Horace King, designed . . . — — Map (db m69449) HM
William Bartram, the first native-born American artist-naturalist, of Philadelphia, visited this site on Christmas Day, 1776.
This arboretum commerates (sic) the man, his visit to Fort Toulouse, and his travels through the southeastern . . . — — Map (db m83726) HM
1940
One half mile from this site
is the home of
William Lowndes Yancey
1814-1863
American Statesman
Southern Secession Leader
Silver Tongued Orator — — Map (db m71550) HM
