On North Main Street (Alabama Route 95) at River Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
Side 1
This church was constituted in 1835 following the withdrawal of six people from Omussee Baptist Church in a dispute over the role of missions. The first pastor Edmund Talbot, who served the Church until 1853, donated that land and . . . — — Map (db m73361) HM
On East Church Street (Alabama Route 52) at South Davis Street, on the right when traveling east on East Church Street.
Side 1
History suggests that, in the early 1820's, circuit riding preachers from the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in the newly settled town of Columbia. Assigned to the Early County Mission in . . . — — Map (db m73363) HM
On Omussee Creek Road, 0.5 miles north of Picnic Road, on the right when traveling north.
The original builders of the Omussee Creek mound
had abandoned the site by around 1550, but the
area continued to be occupied by Native American
groups well into the early nineteenth century. As early as
the 1630s, Spanish missionaries from . . . — — Map (db m115037) HM
On Jordon Street, on the right when traveling west.
(Front): Cowarts Baptist Church
Cowarts Baptist Church was founded in 1885 when dissension arose in the Congregation of Smyrna. Originally located beside the cemetery, the church was destroyed by fire during the 1890s. It was rebuilt . . . — — Map (db m64865) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 84) west of Bocage Drive, in the median. Reported damaged.
Near this spot was the boyhood home of Rev. Bob Jones, (1884-1968), D.D., L.L.D., internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University. The eleventh child of W. Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones, he was three months old when the . . . — — Map (db m191348) HM
On North Cherry Street at East Adams Street, on the right when traveling north on North Cherry Street.
On this site in 1877 Gaines Chapel Church was organized. A wooden structure was erected adjacent to an existing graveyard. In 1891 and 1901 additional land was purchased.
In 1908 the present building was dedicated. This structure was of early . . . — — Map (db m73362) HM
On West Main Street (Alabama Route 52) at North Alice Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
In November 1887 nine charter members organized the First Baptist Church of Dothan. In 1888 the Church erected a one room frame structure at 205 South Saint Andrews Street.
A beautiful Gothic brick building in the SE corner of Main and Oates . . . — — Map (db m83782) HM
On Chickasaw Street at North Alice Street, on the right when traveling west on Chickasaw Street.
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In 1889, Georgia Baptists led by Reverend W. M. Carter organized the New Hope Baptist Church in the village of Poplar Head. Reverend Robert Nelson was called as the first pastor. In 1907, newly-elected trustees incorporated . . . — — Map (db m102970) HM
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Organized on July 8, 1897 by the commission of South Alabama Presbytery. From the original seventeen members, J.D. Jones, N. M. McDonald, and I. M. Barton were elected ruling elders and Dr. Charles Sporman, D. R. Redding, and W. R. . . . — — Map (db m73379) HM
On Leslie Street at Church Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Leslie Street.
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Baptists of Gordon first erected a brush arbor church, Hope Arbor, circa 1819. On May 16, 1867 James Pynes gave one acre and timber to build a church in the town center. Pynes, William Wood and John T. Davis, Building Committee, . . . — — Map (db m73372) HM
On Walden Drive (Alabama Route 41) at Mills Street, on the left when traveling north on Walden Drive.
Organized in 1891 as Enon Baptist Church, the church was also formerly known as First Baptist Church of Kinsey and Kinsey Baptist Church of Christ. The present name was adopted in 1907. Organizational services were overseen by Rev. Ephraim . . . — — Map (db m235048) HM
On Broad Street (County Road 41) at Bethel Road, on the left when traveling east on Broad Street.
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Organized in 1882 at nearby Rocky Creek Methodist Church for educational purposes. This school, which occupied approximately seven acres surrounding this marker, was supported by the Methodist Episcopal Church North. This school . . . — — Map (db m73374) HM
On Liberty Road at Snell Road, on the left when traveling east on Liberty Road.
The church was organized in 1867 under a brush arbor very near the present sanctuary. The brush arbor was replaced by a log building and services were conducted in the log building until approximately 1895. It was in 1895 that Liberty Baptist Church . . . — — Map (db m83787) HM
On Alabama Route 605, 0.5 miles south of Boys Club Road, on the left when traveling south.
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Big Creek United Methodist Church
One of the oldest churches in southeast Alabama and reportedly the oldest church in Houston County. The first church structure was a log building constructed about 20 yards north of the . . . — — Map (db m73356) HM
On County Road 90, 0.1 miles east of Alabama Route 73, on the right when traveling east.
Ebenezer Baptist Church is the oldest church on the northern end of Sand Mountain. Its origins date back to an 1850s log church and school called Gordon Chapel. Renamed Ebenezer, the church became a member of the Tennessee River Baptist Association . . . — — Map (db m156122) HM
On South Andrews Street at Martin Street, on the right when traveling north on South Andrews Street. Reported missing.
In September 1868, J. J. Beeson, a missionary for the Tennessee River Association, organized First Baptist Church. At the time, it was affiliated with Center Point Baptist Church. The congregation initially met in a building used by several other . . . — — Map (db m167090) HM
On Alabama Route 65 at County Road 251, on the right when traveling north on State Route 65.
A vital part of Pioneer Presbyterian Witness
in Paint Rock Valley
Organized October 9, 1903
“O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine
Alleluia! . . . — — Map (db m167098) HM
Organized September 5, 1818 in home of Isaac Brown 3 miles west of Elyton. Met in homes and schoolhouse near Old Jonesboro until 1824. First building erected on site now the 14th Street entrance to Cedar Hill cemetery. Canaan Association (now . . . — — Map (db m37218) HM
On 14th Street South (State Highway 150) south of Fairfax Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
In 1840 he published his study, History of Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Alabama.
Also an evangelist and missionary.
In 1818 moved to Alabama from Carolinas, organizing five churches in vicinity.
President of Alabama Baptist . . . — — Map (db m27025) HM
On County Road 18, on the left when traveling west.
Union Baptist Church was organized in 1834 by 18 or 20 members from Canaan Church. The Libscomb area was then known as East End. Members of the Rockett and Ware families donated the original two acreas of this site and a log cabin, which served as . . . — — Map (db m24352) HM
Near Messer Airport Highway at University Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
This cemetery is the final resting place of three of the four young girls killed in the September 15, 1963 church bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carol Robertson are buried here. The fourth victim, . . . — — Map (db m61197) HM
On 29th Avenue North west of 33rd Street North, on the left when traveling west.
Rev. Shuttlesworth and his fellow ministers agreed to call the
replacement organization the Alabama Christian Movement for Human
Rights (ACMHR) so that its reach was both statewide and its aims wider
than the African American community. Adding . . . — — Map (db m188971) HM
On Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard at 19th Street North, on the right when traveling east on Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard.
Shuttlesworth began to dedicate himself to the ministry and enrolled
in Cedar Grove Bible College, a Baptist institution in the Mobile suburb
of Pritchard. He took classes at night while he worked during the day.
The young couple added two more . . . — — Map (db m187628) HM
On 29th Avenue North west of 33rd Street North, on the left when traveling west.
Alabama's chapters of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) were particularly effective in filing federal
lawsuits that challenged racial segregation laws and advocating for
voting rights. NAACP members also . . . — — Map (db m188970) HM
On 6th Avenue North west of 17th Street North, on the left when traveling west. Reported damaged.
Civil rights activist and pastor, the Rev. Calvin Wallace Woods Sr. was born in Birmingham in 1933. The son of a Baptist preacher, Woods attended historic miles college and various seminary institutions. He distinguished himself as a leader during . . . — — Map (db m187533) HM
On Highland Avenue South at 31st Street South, on the right when traveling west on Highland Avenue South.
The church was founded when the Rev. Henry M. Edmonds and many members of a Southern Presbyterian congregation withdrew from the local Presbytery. During the first seven years it met in Temple Emanu-El synagogue and held evening services in the . . . — — Map (db m27093) HM
On 29th Avenue North at 33rd Street North, on the left when traveling west on 29th Avenue North.
Birmingham's rise to national prominence in the modern American
Civil Rights Movement began several years after Rev. Fred L.
Shuttlesworth arrived in March 1953 to pastor Bethel Baptist Church,
founded in 1904. The church's prior pastors were . . . — — Map (db m188962) HM
On Park Place east of Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North, on the left when traveling east.
Immediately after the Civil War, Northern church groups funded by
sympathetic Whites rushed to the South to start elementary schools
and colleges to educate freed slaves. Soon afterward, Blacks took the
lead in educating their own children. . . . — — Map (db m187635) HM
On Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard at 20th Street North, on the right when traveling east on Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard.
While working his first job after high school at the Southern Club in
Birmingham, he fell in love with a fellow co-worker, Ruby Lanette
Keeler (b. May 30, 1922). He was smitten with her beauty, complete
with dark brown skin and long wavy hair. . . . — — Map (db m187629) HM
On 4th Avenue North at 16th Street North, on the right when traveling west on 4th Avenue North.
Built 1955, 1530 4th Ave. N.
Metropolitan AME Zion Church was one of the Movement
churches, hosting ACMHR mass meetings in 1962 and serving as
one of the starting points of the massive demonstrations of
April - May 1963. Project C" . . . — — Map (db m188033) HM
On Grantswood Road, on the right when traveling east.
New Hope Baptist Church and Cemetery were established here on land with a log house donated by Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Jackson Glass on August 21, 1884, for religious and educational purposes. The five-member church began with trustee Manson Glass. On . . . — — Map (db m83832) HM
On 29th Avenue North at 33rd Street North, on the right when traveling east on 29th Avenue North.
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth's tenure as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church (1953-1961) was marked by demonstrations, bombings and passionate sermons critical of segregation laws. His activism earned him a house bombing, frequent beatings, arrests, and . . . — — Map (db m83836) HM
On Center Street south of 10th Court West, on the right when traveling south.
1953
During the early 1950s, moderate White business
leaders pressured city officials to find and prosecute
the Dynamite Hill bombers and explore racial
reforms. In April 1951, some worked with moderate
Blacks to form the Interracial . . . — — Map (db m189176) HM
On 19th Street North at 12th Avenue North, on the right when traveling north on 19th Street North.
Although Rev. Shuttlesworth resigned from his positions within
the ACMHR and the SCLC in 1969, his dedication to the cause of
equality for African Americans continued for decades after the
height of the American Civil Rights Movement. A split . . . — — Map (db m187576) HM
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This property possesses National Significance in commemorating the history of the United States. In 1963 it was the staging ground for the . . . — — Map (db m63733) HM
On 6th Avenue North west of 16th Street North, on the right when traveling west.
Built 1911, 1530 6th Ave. N.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was designed by Wallace
Rayfield, a renowned Black architect. It was among
Birmingham's most prominent African-American churches.
By the time of the 1963 Birmingham Movement, it . . . — — Map (db m187523) HM
On 6th Avenue North west of 15th Street North, on the right when traveling west.
Built 1959, 1410 & 1414 6th Ave. N.
Sixth Avenue Zion Hill Baptist Church hosted strategy and mass meetings during the Birmingham Movement. It also served as the departure points for the April 12, 1963, Good Friday march to City Hall, led . . . — — Map (db m244958) HM
On 8th Avenue West at Center Street North, on the right when traveling east on 8th Avenue West.
This residential area was carved from the Joseph Riley Smith plantation, a 600 acre antebellum farm, one of the largest in 19th century Jefferson County. Smithfield lies to the west of Birmingham's city center on the flat land & hills north of . . . — — Map (db m26990) HM
On 15th Street North north of 7th Avenue North, on the left when traveling north.
Built 1973, 708 15th St. N.
St. John AME Church and Day Care Center are on the site of
the former church that hosted Monday night mass meetings
during the early 1960s. It was also a center where Project
C" leaders came to strategize about . . . — — Map (db m187892) HM
On 6th Avenue North west of 16th Street North, on the right when traveling west.
Built 1904; Renovations 1948-51, 1500 6th Ave. N.
St. Paul United Methodist Church was the site of the first
mass meeting held on Dec. 26, 1956, following the ACMHR's
(Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights) first
major direct action . . . — — Map (db m187868) HM
On St. Vincents Drive at University Blvd South, in the median on St. Vincents Drive.
Named for St. Vincent de Paul, founder of the Daughters of Charity in France in 1633, the hospital opened December 20, 1898 in the temporarily rented Henry F. DeBardelaben mansion at 206 15th Street South. Father Patrick A. OReilly founded the . . . — — Map (db m27523) HM
On 20th Street North, 0.1 miles north of Park Place, on the right when traveling north.
Young Fred loved pulling pranks with the aid of his younger siblings
and friends. He enjoyed going to church every Sunday and began
teaching Sunday School. Because he was so mischievous, his siblings
could hardly believe that his secret goal was . . . — — Map (db m187630) HM
On 29th Street South at Rhodes Circle South, on the left when traveling north on 29th Street South.
John Valentine Coe, president of Birmingham Lumber and Coal Company, commissioned this two-story Craftsman-Tudor Revival style house in 1908. Coe, who had previously been a lumber merchant in Selma, moved his family and business to Birmingham at the . . . — — Map (db m83858) HM
On 29th Avenue North west of 33rd Street North, on the left when traveling west.
In November 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated buses
in Montgomery, handing the bus boycott and the growing Civil Rights
Movement a major victory. As a result, Rev. Shuttlesworth led the
ACMHR to target Birmingham's segregated . . . — — Map (db m189098) HM
On 6th Avenue South at 9th Street South, on the right when traveling east on 6th Avenue South.
The New Pilgrim Baptist Church
Civil Rights Gathering Place.
This church served as a gathering place and strategic hub for Birmingham's Civil Rights Movement in 1956 under the leadership of Rev. Nelson H. Smith, Jr., . . . — — Map (db m188891) HM
On 6th Avenue North west of 18th Street North, on the left when traveling west.
Ministers in 60 Black churches across the city played key roles in the
Birmingham Movement. In the mass meetings, ministers fired up their
working-class members and encouraged commitment to the struggle
against segregation with revival-style . . . — — Map (db m187529) HM
On 28th Avenue North east of 32nd Street North, on the left when traveling east.
June 1958
Rev. Shuttlesworth called 1958 a year of harassment as terrorist
violence against the ACMHR's movement grew worse. Bethel
Baptist Deacon James Revis offered his home near the new
parsonage as a guardhouse. Other men from the . . . — — Map (db m189119) HM
On Tuscaloosa Avenue SW at 3rd Street SW, on the left when traveling east on Tuscaloosa Avenue SW.
In 1818 before Alabama, Jefferson County, Elyton or Birmingham existed, The Elyton Methodist Church was established on Center Street. It was moved to 14 Second Avenue, and in 1909, to its present site. Renamed in 1910 for Corilla Porter Walker . . . — — Map (db m24348) HM
On Cumberland Drive at Balcourt Drive, on the right when traveling east on Cumberland Drive.
Wilson Chapel was built in 1916 as a memorial to James and Frances Wilson by their daughters, Rosa Wilson Eubanks and Minerva Wilson Constantine. At the time of its construction the area was developing into a community of country homes known as . . . — — Map (db m26681) HM
On 6th Avenue North at 20th Street North, on the left when traveling west on 6th Avenue North.
has been entered in the
National Register of
Historic Places
by the National Park Service
United States
Department of Interior
1983 — — Map (db m216137) HM
On 21st Way South south of Highland Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Congregation Beth-El was founded in 1907 on Birmingham's north side. Its leadership came from Knesseth Israel, the city's Orthodox Jewish congregation. Beth-El was established as a modern. yet traditional congregation. Construction on the synagogue . . . — — Map (db m216067) HM
On Park Avenue at Pastor Street, on the left when traveling south on Park Avenue.
(side A)
Brookside's Unique Heritage
Originally settled by the Samuel and Mary “Polly” Fields family in the 1820s, Brookside enjoyed a quiet life as an agricultural community until industrialists discovered rich coal . . . — — Map (db m43223) HM
On Clay-Palmerdale Road at Old Springville Road, on the right when traveling north on Clay-Palmerdale Road.
Local Methodist connections for Clay Methodist Church were Cedar Mountain Church and Shiloh Methodist Church. Samuel, a Revolutionary War soldier, was a notable member of these early churches. Many of his descendants are buried here. James Self . . . — — Map (db m117209) HM
On Cedar Mountain Road, on the right when traveling west.
The oldest marked grave is that of Nancy Paerson, daughter of William S. Turner who was born September 23, 1813 and died September 19, 1830. Jesse Taylor deeded land for this church and graveyard on February 15, 1856.
Listed in the Alabama . . . — — Map (db m25134) HM
Near Myron Massey Boulevard north of 55th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Miles College Leaders. Students Active During Civil Rights Era
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church founded Miles College in
Fairfield in 1898. During the 1960s, President Lucius Pitts
encouraged students, faculty and staff to become . . . — — Map (db m153232) HM
On Main Street north of Mt. Olive Road/Civic Center Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Virgil Allen Howard, who was born in South Carolina in 1859, came to Alabama in 1884 seeking employment with the Alabama Waterworks. He and Ollie Grace Hogan were married on July 15, 1903 and made their first home in Gardendale on property they . . . — — Map (db m39221) HM
On Lakeshore Drive at Sherman Circle, in the median on Lakeshore Drive.
Multiple purpose Christian university founded 1841 as Howard College by Alabama Baptists at Marion.
Moved to East Lake, Birmingham, 1887. Established on this campus 1957.
Acquired Cumberland School of Law, Lebanon, Tennessee 1961. . . . — — Map (db m27296) HM
On Hollywood Blvd at Union Hill Drive, on the left when traveling east on Hollywood Blvd.
This cemetery is the final resting place of many of Shades Valley's pioneer residents. A few of the earliest headstones date from the mid-1850s. Descendants of these settlers helped mold the cities of Mountain Brook and Homewood. Located on property . . . — — Map (db m26294) HM
The Presbyterian Church U.S. began an effort in May 1960 to organize a new Presbyterian Church in the Cahaba Heights area. Rev. Frank M. Barker, Jr. was asked to begin the process and began contacting prospective members in a door to door campaign. . . . — — Map (db m52185) HM
On Patton Chapel Road west of Montgomery Highway (U.S. 31), on the right when traveling west.
Just after the War Between the States Robert Berry Patton gave seven acres of land, logs from his sawmill to build a church, school and cemetery. He served as the first pastor. Fire destroyed the church in 1908 and 1938. The school served the area . . . — — Map (db m83915) HM
On Shades Crest Road (County Road 97) at Park Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Shades Crest Road.
Indian, Wagon Trail, now Shades Crest Road, led to popular chalybeate springs. Summit, now Bluff Park, was a resort known for its view, cool air and healing mineral water. In 1899 school / church was built. In 1909 Bluff Park Hotel, built on land . . . — — Map (db m27311) HM
On Shades Crest Road east of Mimosa Lane, on the right when traveling east.
Indian, Wagon Trail, now Shades Crest Road, led to popular chalybeate springs. Summit, now Bluff Park, was a resort known for its view, cool air and healing mineral water. In 1899 school / church was built. In 1909 Bluff
Park Hotel, built on land . . . — — Map (db m28517) HM
On Park Avenue at Rockland Drive, on the right when traveling north on Park Avenue.
51 Structures, 70% residential, built early 20th century to post World War II period.
The 1885 sale of Gardner Hales land began the housing development. The 33 acre 1924 Independent Presbyterian Church Childrens Fresh Air Farm, 1923 Bluff . . . — — Map (db m28518) HM
On Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive at Tin Mill Road, on the right when traveling west on Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive.
Bethlehem United Methodist Church is one of the oldest churches in Jefferson County, dating back to 1818 and the efforts of Rev. Ebenezer Hearn. In April 1818, the Tennessee Conference of Methodist Churches sent Rev. Hearn south of the Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m212543) HM
On Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive at Tin Mill Road, on the right when traveling west on Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive.
Established in 1818, is one of the oldest church parishes in Jefferson County. About 1814 James Rutledge settled here to be near the Rutledge Springs and donated land for the church building and the cemetery. The first church building was completed . . . — — Map (db m215908) HM
Near Overbrook Road, on the left when traveling north.
Canterbury is the oldest existing establishment in Mountain Brook. It was organized in 1867 as Irondale Methodist when enough settlers to support the church moved into the area around the Irondale Furnace. The first time the North Alabama . . . — — Map (db m83919) HM
On Church Street, on the right when traveling east.
In 1821 the first settlers came to this area, later called Waddell. Large numbers of people first migrated here in 1863 with the construction of the Irondale Furnace. Destroyed in the Civil War, the furnace was rebuilt and operated from 1867 to . . . — — Map (db m26769) HM
On Port Birmingham Rd (State Highway 269) at Finland Road, on the right when traveling west on Port Birmingham Rd.
This cemetery is owned by St. John Baptist Church in Edgewater and operated by Scott-McPherson Funeral Home, Inc. US Steel Corporation previously owned the area and it is historically associated with the Edgewater Mining Camp community established . . . — — Map (db m37221) HM
Near Main Street (U.S. 11) at Raimond Muscoda Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Organized as Cahawba Baptist Church, 1821 Elder Sion Blythe, pastor Anderson Robertson, Sherwood Holley, deacons John Stovall, Jordan Williams, trustees.
Member of Canaan (now Birmingham) Baptist Association since its beginning in 1833. . . . — — Map (db m78805) HM
On Vestavia Drive east of Beaumont Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Vestavia Hills Baptist Church Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills City Hall. The church purchased the George Ward estate in 1958. On the property was Wards home, “Vestavia,” a replica . . . — — Map (db m83931) HM
On Lee Highway (U.S. 72) 0.7 miles west of County Road 583, on the left when traveling west.
Daniel White, native of North Carolina, purchased land here in 1818, a year before Alabama became a state. His home and stagecoach stop, "Wayside Inn" was a large two~ story log house located on the North side of the highway from this site. In 1834 . . . — — Map (db m29170) HM
Near Hightower Place south of Veterans Drive (Alabama Route 133), on the left when traveling south.
Rev. Dr. Bennett W. Smith, as president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, expanded the organization internationally. Active in Civil Rights in America and South Africa, he counseled President Bill Clinton on racial equality. — — Map (db m219184) HM
On Veterans Drive east of South Pine Street, on the right when traveling east.
About 1840, African- Americans began holding religious services in a brick cow shed overlooking the town spring near this site. It was purchased in 1857 by the local Methodists for this congregation, with Robin Lightfoot, a slave, as its pastor. In . . . — — Map (db m156921) HM
On E. Tombigbee St. at N. Wood Ave. on E. Tombigbee St..
On May 27, 1888, this church was established in the courthouse after a commencement sermon at the State Normal College delivered by the Rev. W. H. Smith. Its initial name was First Missionary Baptist, but in 1910 it became First Baptist. The . . . — — Map (db m83964) HM
On E. Mobile St. close to Wood Ave., on the right when traveling east.
The Presbyterians organized the first church in Florence and purchased this property from the Cypress Land Company in 1818. A sanctuary was erected here in 1824. James L. Sloss, an early Alabama Territory missionary, was installed as the church's . . . — — Map (db m28955) HM
Established September 8, 1822 in a log house on the west side of town by Revs. John Cox and John Kerr. Cox and wife, Frances Langley had been affiliated with the Wesleys in England. Second meeting place was in Farmer's Cobbler Shop on West Mobile . . . — — Map (db m83966) HM
The "Mother Church" of the Presbytery, Florence Cumberland Colored Presbyterian Church originated in 1898 on property deeded by the city. Led, in 1918, by Rev. Holt Smith, it bought property on Alabama Street and built a frame structure. In 1948 . . . — — Map (db m83967) HM
Oldest state~supported
teacher college south of Ohio R.
1830 ~ opened as LaGrange College
(Methodist) at nearby Leighton.
First charted college in state.
1855 ~ moved here and re~named
Florence Wesleyan University.
Flourished until . . . — — Map (db m83970) HM
On Mars Hill Road, on the right when traveling north.
Built by Theophilus Brown Larimore and his wife, Esther Gresham Larimore, as a home and educational center. Near site of foundry and arsenal of War Between The States, it served as a school, 1871-1887, to train ministers and Christian workers of the . . . — — Map (db m35261) HM
Christians first met here in a log building which also served as a schoolhouse. In 1909 a frame building was constructed. Because of a single cedar tree in prominent view, it was given the name Lone Cedar by Wilbert M (Will) Behel, an early . . . — — Map (db m35231) HM
Tracing its roots to the early 1800's, The Macedonia Baptist Church originally met in homes with Joseph Fanning, visiting evangelist. In 1834, J.W. Smith supervised a building on this site. In 1880, T.B. Larimore, an evangelist among Churches of . . . — — Map (db m84032) HM
On County Road 222 at County Road 15, on the right when traveling east on County Road 222.
Begun as Concordia Church of Christ, this historic church met first when W. B. Young traveled from Bethel-Berry to preach at the old Burcham Valley School House. This congregation became known as the New Hope Church of Christ. Long-time members, . . . — — Map (db m156990) HM
On Willis Avenue south of Bank Street, on the right when traveling south.
In 1908 a group of Christian believers met in the Fifth Ward School on the west side of the 1100 block of North Wood Avenue for Sunday School and worship. After land was donated at this site, a frame church was built in 1909 and it became one of the . . . — — Map (db m156981) HM
On Burrell Street at White Street on Burrell Street.
In early 1840s about 14 African-American members from First Methodist formed own congregation “Church Springs” near South Court Street. In 1857, a nearby brick cow shed was converted for its use under Rev. Robin Lightfoot who became a . . . — — Map (db m84050) HM
On East College Street west of Plum Street, on the left when traveling east.
Florence Roman Catholic established their first church here in 1898 with Gammelbert Bunner, OSB, as pastor. They earlier met in private homes attended by visiting priests. Churches in Tuscumbia and St. Florian served the Shoals at large. The . . . — — Map (db m141958) HM
On East Alabama Street at South Woods Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East Alabama Street.
St. Mark Baptist Church is the oldest Missionary Baptist Church in Florence, Alabama. In 1859, a group of Christians began worshipping in a brush arbor on this site. John A. Rorttock, Trustee for colored members of the Missionary Baptist Church, . . . — — Map (db m99898) HM
On E Hawthorne Street at Prospect Street, on the right when traveling west on E Hawthorne Street.
Temple B'nai Israel, at this location, had its origin with the first Jewish settlers in Tuscumbia, AL, in the 1840s.
These early settlers quickly became part of the community and were commercially successful. The 1870s and 1880s were periods of . . . — — Map (db m138786) HM
On West Irvine Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
The congregation first met in home of Mrs. Betsy Key. Organized as "Fairgrounds Church" in 1896 at nearby site of early Florence Racetrack and Fairgrounds, with Andy Sloss as pastor. Later, the church was moved to Irvine Avenue (formerly Fish-Trap . . . — — Map (db m156929) HM
Episcopal services in Florence began in 1824. Rev. Thomas Armstrong Cook organized Trinity Episcopal Church in 1836. The original building, on the northwest corner of College and Cedar Streets, was consecrated Feb. 23, 1845, by Bishop Nicholas . . . — — Map (db m35230) HM
Church organized in 1819; First Cemetery Burial in 1819. One of the earliest Methodist Congregations in the area, this church was organized by local preacher, Rev. Alexander Faires, in a log school built in 1816. Land donated in 1818 for church and . . . — — Map (db m56354) HM
The Wesleyan Bell was manufactured by the C.S. Bell Company in Hillsboro, Ohio, it is made of alloy steel, has a diameter of 38 inches, and is 24 inches high (not including its yoke). The weight of the bell is 660 pounds. When 350- pounds mountings . . . — — Map (db m28881) HM
In 1886 a group of Christians began meeting in the home of Susan Thrasher on the northeast corner of Court and Tuscaloosa Streets. For the next four years the group assembled in various rented places until it obtained its own building.
The move . . . — — Map (db m84159) HM
On East Tuscaloosa Street at North Wood Street (County Road 47), on the right when traveling east on East Tuscaloosa Street.
This park, first designated as a Public Walk, was laid out as part of the original plans of Florence in 1818. On February 20, 1924, the Board of City Commissioners officially changed its name from City Park to Woodrow Wilson Park in honor of the . . . — — Map (db m35665) HM
On County Road 47 at County Road 140, on the left when traveling north on County Road 47.
This is one of the earliest community burial grounds in Lauderdale County. The oldest dated gravestone is for Catherine Hill, first wife of Green Berry Hill, for whom the community is named. She died on June 8, 1825. George Kennedy deeded five acres . . . — — Map (db m154332) HM
On Lee Highway (U.S. 72) 0.2 miles west of County Road 69, on the right when traveling west.
Organized June 1818 near mouth of Blue Water Creek by Circuit Riders and became part of
Richland Circuit of Giles County, Tenn. Church later moved to Center Star (Originally known as Masonville) and named Driskel's Chapel until cνrca 1893, then . . . — — Map (db m156911) HM
On Alabama Route 101 at County Route 71, on the right when traveling south on State Route 101.
Descended from early Lauderdale County pioneers, Andrew Lee Phillips established a general merchandise store here in 1888. Later, he owned and operated a gin, grist mill, and flour rolling mill. In 1917, he was responsible for the city's first bank . . . — — Map (db m176948) HM
On Alabama Route 64 at County Road 89, on the right when traveling west on State Route 64.
Established in 1894 as New Salem Presbyterian Church. Originally affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the first recorded meeting was held 1897, William White, Pastor.
The Church became affiliated with Presbyterian U.S.A. in 1907. . . . — — Map (db m86305) HM
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