On Flowers Road (County Route 37) 0.1 miles south of Vaughn Road (Alabama Route 110), on the right when traveling south.
Brewer Church began in 1898 with 10 members in a one-room structure at its current location in Cecil, AL. Construction of the sanctuary occurred a few years later. Brewer Church was named for its first pastor, George Evans Brewer, a former State . . . — — Map (db m68744) HM
On Wares Ferry Road (County Route 64) 0.4 miles east of Dozier Road, on the left when traveling east.
Augusta, home of Old Augusta Cemetery, was built on the site of a former Indian village, “Sawanogi,” on high ground close to the Tallapoosa River. In 1824 a disastrous flood swept over the plateau, invading shops and residences. A year . . . — — Map (db m68260) HM
On South Perry Street south of Dexter Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
This tablet marks the site of the office and infirmary of DR. J. MARION SIMS Here, in 1845, he performed the first closure of a vesico-vaginal fistula with wire suture, using a pewter spoon as speculum. This operation made him famous throughout the . . . — — Map (db m36576) HM
On Vaughn Road 0.1 miles west of Chantilly Parkway (Alabama Route 110), on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
Chantilly Plantation was purchased in 1832 at
public outcry by Dr. Thomas Burge Taylor of
Columbia, SC as a wedding gift for his bride,
Harriott Pinkney Raoul. John Ashurst, its
original owner, had moved further west. Harriott,
a French woman, . . . — — Map (db m91529) HM
On Georgia Washington Road at Antioch Lane, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Washington Road.
Miss Georgia Washington founded the Peoples Village School for black students on this site in 1893. Georgia Washington was born a slave November 23, 1851 in Virginia. As a student at Hampton Institute, Virginia, she met Dr. Booker T. . . . — — Map (db m72010) HM
On Pike Road (County Route 85) 0.1 miles north of Antioch Lane, on the left when traveling north.
In the late 1850s the cluster of Episcopal families around Mt. Meigs undertook to build a church and engaged Pennsylvania architect Joseph W. Pierson to prepare the plans. The plans were submitted in April 1861, but due to the hardships caused by . . . — — Map (db m72012) HM
On Marler Road (County Route 107) at Avenue of the Oaks, on the left when traveling south on Marler Road.
House built ca. 1830s by Alexander Carter on small land holding. Increasing fortunes led to a 1780-acre diversified and innovative plantation. Oak trees planted on either side of front drive led to its name. During WWII, an auxiliary landing strip, . . . — — Map (db m72014) HM
Stood 2800 feet north of this point, just west of Line Creek on the Federal Road. Moved to Montgomery in 1978 to serve as the Visitor and Information Center for the Old North Hull Historic District, it is the oldest remaining building in Montgomery . . . — — Map (db m60906) HM
On Gunter Park Drive at Cong W L Dickinson Drive (County Road 21), on the right when traveling west on Gunter Park Drive.
Old Elam Baptist Church Cemetery is Montgomery County's 22nd cemetery listed in the prestigious Alabama Historic Cemetery Register. Rev. James McLemore, Electious Thompson, Arnold Edwards, and E. Jeter founded Old Elam Baptist Church on June 19, . . . — — Map (db m82565) HM
On Washington Avenue at South Perry Street, on the left when traveling west on Washington Avenue.
Montgomery County Circuit Court
Site of Major Civil Rights Cases 1956-1960
In 1956, 89 persons were indicted for violating an anti-boycott law; Rosa Parks' conviction was appealed; the Montgomery Improvement Association car . . . — — Map (db m94925) HM
On Mobile Highway north of Young Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Born on July 7, 1937, in Calhoun, Alabama, Richard C. Boone
devoted his life to the causes of civil and human rights. He joined the Air Force at the age of sixteen and following his service received a degree in political science and history from . . . — — Map (db m155066) HM
On Avenue of the Waters 0.1 miles east of Marler Road (County Route 37), on the right when traveling west.
The Founders of The Waters relocated and restored this historic cemetery in May 2005. The original cemetery site, located along the Old Federal Road beyond the boundary of the Creek Indian lands at Line Creek, had fallen into ruin due to years of . . . — — Map (db m72015) HM
On South Court Street at Mildred Street, on the right when traveling south on South Court Street.
Civil War-Barnes School
In April 1865, the Union Army command made this house its headquarters. Mrs. Pickett hid her silver on an inside ledge of the cupola. Later, former Confederate Generals Hood, Bragg, and Walker visited here. In 1906, . . . — — Map (db m86072) HM
On Hyundai Boulevard (County Road 42) west of Norman Bridge Road (U.S. 331), on the right when traveling west.
This 2.8-mile road connecting U.S. highways 331 and 31 first appeared on Montgomery County road maps in 1928. Land for the road was deeded to Montgomery County in September 1926 by local landowners from the Teague, Bellingrath and Matthews families. . . . — — Map (db m99235) HM
On Hyundai Boulevard (County Route 42) at Mobile Highway (U.S. 31), on the right when traveling east on Hyundai Boulevard.
This 2.8-mile road connecting U.S. highways 331 and 31 first appeared on Montgomery County road maps in 1928. Land for the road was deeded to Montgomery County in September 1926 by local landowners from the Teague, Bellingrath and Matthews families. . . . — — Map (db m70932) HM
On Williams Drive 0.2 miles east of Franson Road, on the left when traveling east.
Union Benevolent Cemetery is Montgomery County's 25th cemetery listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register. Charlie and Bertha Burnett donated land to the Union Benevolent Society, established in 1863 by Ford Williams, Jack Sims, Tom Cobb, . . . — — Map (db m266210) HM
On Salem Road 0.1 miles west of County Road 7702, on the right when traveling west.
Pike County was created by an act passed on December 7, 1821, by the Third Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama. It included part of what is now Barbour, Bullock, Crenshaw, Henry, Macon, and Montgomery Counties, and covered . . . — — Map (db m188387) HM
On Columbus Street 0.1 miles west of North Decatur Street, on the left when traveling west.
Side 1
Abram Mordecai
1755-1849
Born October 24, 1755 in Pennsylvania; settled 1783 in Georgia where he became a successful trader among the Cusseta Indians. First U.S. citizen to settle (1785) in what became Montgomery County. . . . — — Map (db m71357) HM
On Pines Church Road just north of Pines Road, on the right when traveling north.
Russell Cemetery AKA Pines Cemetery. Pvt. E. Thompson served in Revolutionary War 1776-1778. Fought at Germantown & White Plains. — — Map (db m285502) HM
On School Spur Road 0.3 miles south of Pettus Road (County Road 19), on the right when traveling south.
This building was one of fourteen schools constructed in Montgomery County with funding assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Between 1912-32, Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish philanthropist and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company teamed up with Booker . . . — — Map (db m71427) HM
On Montgomery Street at State Street, on the left when traveling north on Montgomery Street.
There were 400,000 enslaved Black people in Alabama at the start of the Civil War, the largest number of whom were in Montgomery and surrounding counties. Two-thirds of the population of Montgomery County were enslaved Black people in 1860. . . . — — Map (db m304123) HM
On Pike Road (County Route 85) at Flinn Road, on the right when traveling south on Pike Road.
Montgomery County's first school to consolidate rural, one-room school houses into grades one through twelve opened November 11, 1918. The school was built by the Montgomery County Board of Education on 30 acres of land at a cost of $40,000 with . . . — — Map (db m72017) HM
On Randolph Avenue Southeast near Calhoun Street SE, on the right when traveling west.
Septimus D. Cabaniss (1815-1889) purchased this home in 1843, upon his
marriage to Virginia A. Shepherd (1824-1907). The couple had nine
children, only four of whom survived to adulthood. Architect George
Steele built the home, in the Greek . . . — — Map (db m235485) HM
On Lake Street west of Hall Street, on the right when traveling west.
Hale Infirmary
On this site for nearly seven decades stood Hale Infirmary. It was
among 25 hospitals in Alabama, and the first in Montgomery, established during the Black Hospital Movement, an effort to overcome
healthcare inequities for . . . — — Map (db m240686) HM
"But never, never, 10,000 times never, do we find as white Southerners, any guilt complex concerning our belief in and the practice of separation of the races because it is the edict of God in the Holy Bible."
Dr. Henry L. Lyon, . . . — — Map (db m304143) HM
In Memoriam Perpetuam Captain Bascom T. Shockly’s Escort Company Of Cavalry
In the hour of their country’s peril Unmindful of self and fired only by patriotic devotion
Bascom T. Shockly and nineteen students of the
University of Alabama . . . — — Map (db m33595) HM
On East Jackson Street at Wolf Circle, on the left when traveling east on East Jackson Street.
Ulysses Simpson Jones was born in Tuscaloosa in 1872. He attended the high school division of Talladega College from 1886 to 1890. Realizing that schools were established for the perpetuation of ideas and ideals of society, he decided to build a . . . — — Map (db m286976) HM
On North Hull Street at East Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north on North Hull Street.
Located on the Federal Road near Line Creek (present Waugh) in eastern Montgomery County, this wayside hotel was built prior to 1818 and was owned by a least two other families before coming into the possession of Walter and Eliza Lucas around . . . — — Map (db m98557) HM
Near Woodside Lane north of Graystone Pl, on the right when traveling north.
The Rev. James McLemore, his wife Elizabeth Harper McLemore,
and their families migrated to this area from Jones County,
Georgia, in 1817. McLemore was a missionary Baptist preacher and
founded three Baptist churches in Montgomery County. He . . . — — Map (db m266024) HM
On Court Square at Dexter Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Court Square.
Rosa M. Parks (1913-2005) was arrested on a Montgomery bus December 1, 1955 for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest, which happened 2 blocks west on Montgomery Street, sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, which . . . — — Map (db m143325) HM
Near South Court Street south of Felder Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Established in 1910 on South McDonough Street, this school was named for the well-known southern poet, Sidney Lanier, who resided in Montgomery 1866-67.
This late Gothic Revival building was constructed 1928-29 to consolidate the original . . . — — Map (db m86424) HM
On Winona Avenue at North Florida Street, on the right when traveling west on Winona Avenue.
While Capitol Heights was a new town, city leaders, including founder and first mayor J. S. Pinckard, donated land for an elementary school. The community partnered with the Montgomery County Board of Education to build the Capitol Heights . . . — — Map (db m81810) HM
Near Briar Lane 0.1 miles west of Ryan Road, on the right when traveling west.
John W. Ray, his wife, Martha; their infant son; and her fifteen-year-old brother, James R. Conyers, moved to Mt. Meigs from Greene County, Georgia. He and his older brother, Isaac Ray, owned extensive landholdings along Vaughn and Taylor Roads. . . . — — Map (db m86473) HM
On Federal Road (County Route 24) 0.3 miles Mobile Highway (U.S. 31), on the left when traveling west.
Opened in 1923 to consolidate a number of one-, two-, and three-teacher institutions in southwestern Montgomery County including Hope Hull, LeGrand, Mt. Carmel, Grange Hall, Snowdoun, Bethlehem, Fleta, Sankey, and Tabernacle. W.F. Feagin served . . . — — Map (db m71432) HM
On East McElroy Road 0.3 miles State Highway 18, on the left when traveling west.
Here between the landmark known as Round Mountains to the south and a camp on Salt Creek three miles to the northwest was fought the first battle of the Civil War in Oklahoma.
When the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory joined the . . . — — Map (db m209523) HM
On North Prairie Street, on the right when traveling north.
In the early 1800s, settlers coming from the Carolinas and Georgia received land grants and some purchased land from the Indians. They settled and cleared the forest for new farms and plantations in what would become a newly formed State of Alabama . . . — — Map (db m83258) HM
On Monroe Street east of North Bainbridge Street, on the right when traveling east.
The Alabama Legislature approved a bill sponsored by Rep. T.E. Martin of Montgomery County in 1927 that designated the Goldenrod the official state flower. It became law on Sept. 6, 1927, the same day that the Yellowhammer became the official . . . — — Map (db m86066) HM
On Old Wetumpka Highway (County Road 74) 0.2 miles south of Brooks Road, on the left when traveling south.
In 1881, former slaves Gadson Draw, Frank Felder, Eli Madison, Kate Marshall, and Killis Marshall founded this church. Rev. Solomon S. Seay, Sr., pastor from 1928-1929, was a stalwart in the Civil Rights Movement and served as the third president of . . . — — Map (db m158657) HM
On 20th Street North north of Park Place, on the right when traveling north.
Freddie Lee Robinson was born March 18, 1922, in Mt. Meigs,
Montgomery County, Alabama, to Alberta Robinson and Vetter Greene.
The unmarried couple also conceived a girl, Cleola. Because Vetter
could not provide for his growing family, Alberta's . . . — — Map (db m187631) HM
On Alabama Route 15 0.2 miles south of County Road 6636, on the right when traveling north.
Creek Indians ceded this land in the Treaty of Fort Jackson
on August 9, 1814. Pike County was established from portions
of Henry and Montgomery Counties on December 17, 1821.
The county was named in honor of Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
an . . . — — Map (db m159024) HM
Near Resaca Lafayette Road Northwest (Georgia Route 136).
Schofield's Army of the Ohio, consisting of two divisions, one commanded by the Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox, the other by Brig. Gen. Henry M. Judah carried out one of two Union attacks on 14 May. Major Gen. John M. Palmer provided support for the right . . . — — Map (db m170999) HM
On Ridge Avenue at Deweese Parkway, on the right when traveling north on Ridge Avenue.
Dedicated to these
Montgomery County citizens
who volunteered their services in
"D" Battery
134th Field Artillery-37th Division
encamped at
Triangle Park - July 15th 1917
for services in the World War.
Called for active duty July . . . — — Map (db m301136) WM
On East 1st Street (State Highway 4) at North St. Clair Street, on the right when traveling west on East 1st Street.
United States of America
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
State of Ohio, Montgomery County
Civil War
Downs, Henry W. Sgt. Winchester, Virginia 1864
James, Isaac, Pvt. Petersburg, Virginia 1865
James, John H. Capt. Mobile Bay, . . . — — Map (db m22239) HM
On Mobile Highway (U.S. 31) at Big Zion Road, on the left when traveling north on Mobile Highway.
In 1902, Big Zion School was erected where Big Zion A.M.E. Zion Church sits
today and remained in that location until 1925, when it moved across the
street to its present site. Moses Primus, Jr., served as the principal and only
teacher in 1908, . . . — — Map (db m304263) HM
(West face)
[Confederate States of America Emblem]
Dedicated to the glory and
honor of the Montgomery
County soldiers of the
Confederate States of America
for their unparalleled courage
and gallantry in defense of their
homeland and . . . — — Map (db m22220) WM
On East Diamond Avenue 0.4 miles west of North Frederick Avenue (Maryland Route 355), on the right when traveling east. Reported damaged.
Historical Background of the Canning Industry:
In 1812, Thomas Kensett introduced the canning process to America with a small plant in New York, which canned oysters, meats, fruits, and vegetables. However, historians generally agree that . . . — — Map (db m245543) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
