Near Tannehill Road, 0.5 miles north of Tannehill Park, on the right when traveling north.
This dairy barn located on the Bolling Farm near Maplesville, Alabama had been used in later years as a smokehouse.
Donated by the A.M. Bolling family.
Restored 1976. — — Map (db m215715) HM
On Tannehill Road, 0.6 miles north of Tannehill Park, on the right when traveling south.
This historic roadway, originally connecting to Eastern Valley Road, was a much-traveled access route to the John Wesley Hall Gristmill beginning in 1867.
During the Civil War, this route was used by the 8th Iowa Cavalry to attack the Tannehill . . . — — Map (db m215727) HM
On Tannehill Road, 0.7 miles north of Confederate Parkway, on the left when traveling north.
The John Wesley Hall Grist Mill & Cotton Gin operated on this site from 1867 to 1931, was successor to one of Alabama's earliest grist mills located a mile west on Mud Creek.
Burned during the Civil War, Hall's Mill was moved to this location . . . — — Map (db m107515) HM
Near Tannehill Road, 0.5 miles north of Confederate Parkway, on the right when traveling north.
1. Gear House
2. Smoke House
3. Corn Crib
4. Double Pole Barn
Donated by Mr. & Mrs. Carthell Kornegay. These buildings were located on the
George Stewart Farm in Bibb County and restored in 1975… — — Map (db m107513) HM
On Eastern Valley Road (County Road 18) at Vintage Lane, on the left when traveling west on Eastern Valley Road.
“Single pen” log house built by John Loveless in 1817 in an old Indian field. Additions, which enclosed the log house, were by Isaac Wellington Sadler and wife, Martha Prude, starting in 1835. Isaac, the son of William Rose Sadler, was a planter, . . . — — Map (db m215728) HM
Near Tannehill Road, 0.5 miles north of Confederate Parkway, on the right when traveling north.
This iron truss bridge was used by thousands of Birmingham area residents in the early 1900s while visiting Tapawingo Springs, once a popular swimming spot and tourist location in northeast Jefferson County.
The bridge was originally located . . . — — Map (db m107514) HM
On Tannehill Road, 0.5 miles north of Confederate Parkway, on the right when traveling north.
James Monroe "Jim" Williams married Martha Evaline George.
Mr. Williams was a farmer and a coal miner at Gray Hill in Bibb County, Alabama.
They raised ten children, of which seven were born in this house.
Donated by Mrs. Audry . . . — — Map (db m107511) HM
Sometimes called a slag ladle or cinder pot, this relic from U.S.
Steel's Ensley Works was used as a part of a eight-car train to move slag from the furnaces to the slag dump. A single car could hold up to 15 tons.
Pot manufactured at U.S. . . . — — Map (db m126995) HM
On Confederate Parkway at Tannehill Park, on the right when traveling west on Confederate Parkway.
James C. Bagley built this house for his bride, Eunice Williams, in 1856 at Bagley Bend near Pinson in northeast Jefferson County.
Bagley joined the Confederate army in 1861 and died that same year in a Shattanooga, Tennessee hospital. He is . . . — — Map (db m215710) HM
The large 54 inch inside diameter pipe was unearthed in 2001 behind the Woodward Golf Course by Bob Hall and the Jefferson County Environmental Services. It was used by the Bessemer sewer system. (Donated by U.S. Pipe & Foundry Company, 2002) — — Map (db m107497) HM
Built under the supervision of Moses Stroup to supply air blast for Tannerhill Furnace No. 1 (1859), this facility made use of blowing tubs and a large waterwheel. It remained in operation even after Furnace Nos. 2 and 3 were added in 1862 and . . . — — Map (db m107498) HM
Near Confederate Parkway, 0.4 miles south of Tannehill Road, on the left when traveling south.
Successor to the first school built in Jefferson County in 1815, this building - of 1923 origins - served the residents of the Beltona Area until 1960. Purchased in 1963 by the Cane Creek Community Club, it was subsequently donated to Tannerhill . . . — — Map (db m107503) HM
Pioneer home of Charles Jefferson Stewart Sr, 1833-1897 and wife Nancy Rachel Mayhan 1839-1910. Relocated from Abercrombie Community Bibb, County, 1986. A successful farmer the Stewarts had 13 children, all born in this house. Donated by Wendell . . . — — Map (db m107502) HM
As the border states began to fall, Alabama iron became critical to the survival of the Confederacy. During the last two years of the war, Alabama’s furnaces were producing 70% of the entire southern iron supply.
That output invited federal . . . — — Map (db m36672) HM
On Confederate Parkway west of Tannehill Park, on the left when traveling west.
For over a century, the Edwards House, with its commanding columned porch, stood as a landmark on U.S. Highway 11 three miles south of Trussville. According to available history, the house was constructed about 1875 by John Meredith Edwards . . . — — Map (db m215689) HM
This tablet dedicated to the men of Companies D and I which, along with other detachments, attacked the Tannehill Ironworks March 31, 1865 under the command of Capt. William A. Sutherland, First Brigade, First Division (McCook’s), United States . . . — — Map (db m36925) HM
Near Confederate Parkway south of Tannehill Road, on the left when traveling south.
Built near West Blocton, Al in 1860 by Winston Stewart, a local contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler occupied the house from 1928 until their death.
Restored as a country School to be a part of the Learning Center in 1978...
Donated by the . . . — — Map (db m107995) HM
Built as a demonstration cabin by noted Appalachian log cabin builder Peter Gott of Marshall, N.C. as a part of the Alabama Reunion Celebration in 1989; the chimney and porch was taken from the old Ash House(circa 1850).
Re-located from . . . — — Map (db m215693) HM
On Confederate Parkway south of Tannehill Road, on the right when traveling south.
Built by Jules Nail in the Mt. Olive Community of Jefferson County
Mr. Nail lived in the house until the 1880's, except for a period of service with the Union Army during the war.
Donated by Mack Lee and Thomas Nail...
Restored . . . — — Map (db m107509) HM
Near Confederate Parkway south of Tannehill Road, on the left when traveling south.
This is the old Kimbrell Methodist Church relocated from Kimbrell Community in Jefferson County. After lying idle for 15 years it was donated to the state by J.C. Hassell in 1972. The restoration was made possible through many individual donations . . . — — Map (db m107504) HM
On Confederate Parkway, 0.3 miles south of Tannehill Road, on the left when traveling south.
Built by Dick Honeycutt
Home of Tincey Peel and son, Ermon Peel from 1920 until death of Ermon in 1984...
Donated by U.S. Steel in 1985 and moved to this site... — — Map (db m107507) HM
The pipe marked DL & CO 1889 for Dennis Long and Company was unearthed in Cahaba Heights. Dennis Long was a native of Londonderry, Ireland who began the manufacture of cast iron pipe prior to the Civil War in Louisville, Kentucky. Long won and lost . . . — — Map (db m107495) HM
During the Civil War, the Tannehill Furnaces shipped 22 tons of pig iron daily to the Selma Arsenal and Gun Works. Sent by wagon to the railhead at Montevallo, then on the North & South RR to Selma, Tannehill iron went into various castings from . . . — — Map (db m215701) HM
On Bucksville Road (Alabama Route 216) east of Interstate 59/20, on the right when traveling east.
2 ½ miles East - the beginning of Steel Industry in this area. Iron Ore, reduced by charcoal, hauled by oxcart, was made into plows, pots, cannon and munitions.
State Park- Camping, Nature Trails, Swimming and Fishing Early American . . . — — Map (db m36927) HM
Tannehill Furnaces began as a
small forge in 1830. During the
War Between the States (1861-1865)
these furnaces were a major
supplier of iron and munitions
for the Confederacy. When
partially destroyed by Union
troops on March 31, . . . — — Map (db m36926) HM
This important battery of charcoal blast furnaces ranked among the most productive in Alabama during the Civil War. The only three-furnace ironworks in the state during the war years, it was capable of producing 22 tons of pig iron a day for the . . . — — Map (db m36209) HM
On Tannehill Park, 0.3 miles east of Eastern Valley Road, on the right when traveling east.
Established 1829 with forge built on Roupes Creek (one mile south) by Daniel Hillman. First blast furnace built on site in 1850's by Moses Stroup. Two other furnaces erected in 1863 by William Sanders to provide iron for Confederate Arsenal at . . . — — Map (db m215686) HM
On Confederate Parkway, 0.3 miles south of Tannehill Road, on the left when traveling south.
Built in the late 1870s near Vernon, Alabama by Edward Francis Collins. Logs were cut from timber on the family farm and hand hewed.
The house remained in the Collins family until it was moved to this site in the spring of 1984.
It was . . . — — Map (db m107501) HM
Pioneer home of George W. Crocker, a farmer and guard at Old Flat Top Prison in northeast Jefferson County.
He married Nancy Jane Bagley, daughter of the builder of the Bagley House also located in this park. This cabin built in 1870, was saved . . . — — Map (db m215691) HM
Pioneer cabin built by Harold T. Dunkin near Sprott, in Perry County.
Partially constructed from an old school house structure.
Given to Tannehill Park in 1973 by Mr. Dunkin's descendants. — — Map (db m215692) HM
On Confederate Parkway at Tannehill Park, on the right when traveling west on Confederate Parkway.
Pioneer home of Archibald Hogan, Bibb County planter from Bibbville, Alabama.
Donated for historic preservation by Mr. E.J. Martin.
Mr. Hogan (1810-1879) & wife, Jane Caffee (1818-1887), buried at Caffee Junction. — — Map (db m215687) HM
Pioneer home of Rev. Harry Marchant, a Methodist minister who migrated here from England.
A gift from Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jones of Tuscaloosa.
Relocated from Coaling to Tannehill State Park in 1971. — — Map (db m215703) HM
This rustic cabin was built for Mr. and Mrs. Troy Stamps of Bessemer, Ala., the first resident care takers of Tannehill Historical State Park, shortly after area was declared a state historic district by the state legislature in 1969.
Parts of . . . — — Map (db m215690) HM
Boyhood home of N.E. Stewart, Alabama state representative, poor keeper for the state
House of Representatives.
Member of Bibb County Commission, Bibb County Road Commissioner, and member of county board of education.
A 59-year career of . . . — — Map (db m215694) HM
On Confederate Parkway west of Tannehill Park, on the right when traveling west.
Built near Eoline, Bibb County on an original land grant signed by President Andrew Jackson. A gift to Tannehill by B. Carter Thompson in 1974.
The kitchen was separated from the main structure by a board walk.
Original home of Mr. & Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m215688) HM
