Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA
(1822-1891)
In his lifetime General Birkett D. Fry was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute and West Point; 1st Lt. (U.S. Infantry) in Mexican War; lawyer in California; mercenary-soldier of . . . — — Map (db m95112) HM
The history of this church encompasses the span of worldwide Methodism from the time of John Wesley to the present. A Methodist Society was organized in Tallassee in 1853 by 15 charter members who gathered in the "White Store," a mill company . . . — — Map (db m160158) HM
"Get there first with the most men"
"Never stand and take a charge...
charge them too"
"Keep the skeer in 'em"
Dedicated to those brave Confederate Militia, Home Guard and University of Alabama Cadets who Repelled Union Raiders ahead . . . — — Map (db m254023) HM WM
"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never do less"
"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language"
"There is true glory and true honor: the glory of duty done-the honor of the integrity of principle" . . . — — Map (db m254112) WM
This monument is dedicated to the memory of all SCV Camp 1921 members who haved [sic] joined General Stonewall Jackson across the river to rest beneath the shade of trees
Funding provided by the Alabama Division of the . . . — — Map (db m254097) WM
This land belonged to the Creek (Muskogee) Indians, who had lived in the Tallassee area for hundreds of years, until their removal in 1836. Benjamin Hawkins, the Creek Indian Agent for the U.S. government, visited the Creek Indians in 1798 in the . . . — — Map (db m67865) HM
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our Cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, . . . — — Map (db m254019) HM WM
Nathan Bedford Forrest was born in Bedford County Tennessee, July 13, 1821. He was the eldest of nine children born to William and Mariam Beck Forrest. At the age of sixteen, Forrest took on the responsibilities of providing for the family after . . . — — Map (db m253891) HM
General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) has continuously ranked as the leading iconic figure of the Confederacy. A son of Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Robert graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in . . . — — Map (db m253909) HM
Only Confederate armory not destroyed during the Civil War.
Col. Gorgas, ordnance chief, had carbine shop moved here
into Tallassee Mfg. Co. mill in spring, 1864 as war threatened Richmond, Va. armory.
War ended before plant . . . — — Map (db m83722) HM
Located twenty-seven miles northeast of Montgomery on the banks of the Tallapoosa River, Talisi, (Tallassee) was a major Creek Indian village prior to forced removal to Oklahoma in 1836, In January of 1844, two entrepreneurs named Thomas M. . . . — — Map (db m253898) HM
Dedicated to the young men of
Tallassee who gave the ultimate
sacrifice in the Vietnam War
PFC Richard Clark
LT. Charles Davis
CW.O. Donald Estes
SGT. Joseph Johnson
CPL. Jimmy Hudson
CAPT. Davis Mathis
SGT. Calvin . . . — — Map (db m67916) WM
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born in what is now Clarksburg, West Virginia. Jackson and his sister were raised by their mother. She died when he was seven. They were the raised by an uncle, until Jackson left for West Point. He worked his way up . . . — — Map (db m253905) HM
Construction began on Thurlow Dam in 1928 and the dam went into operation on December 31, 1930 as part of Alabama Power Company's development of the Tallapoosa River The dam was named in honor of Oscar. G. Thurlow, a Chief Engineer, Vice . . . — — Map (db m254008) HM
This stone placed at the
Great Council Tree
marks the site of
Tukabahchi
1686-1836
Capital of the Upper Creek Indian Nation. Here were born Efau Haujo, Great Medal Chief, and Opothleyaholo,
Creek leaders. Big Warrior . . . — — Map (db m67863) HM
Tukabatchee
On this bend of the Tallapoosa River, stretching out before you, lay one of the ancient towns of the Muscogee Creek People, called Tukabatchee. Tukabatchee is one of the original four mother towns of the Creek . . . — — Map (db m92945) HM
