9th Infantry Division. The 9th Division was organized on 18 July 1918 at Camp Sheridan for service in World War I. When the War ended, 11 November 1918, deployment of the Division to France was canceled and it was demobilized on 15 February . . . — — Map (db m76161) HM
World War I
Camp Sheridan was the site of the August 1917 organization of the Buckeye Division, made up of Ohio National Guardsmen who previously had been serving on the Mexican Border. After training, the 37th went to France in June 1918, . . . — — Map (db m38895) WM
167th Infantry An Alabama regiment was formed in 1836 to defend Fort Foster in Florida. Same unit, designated the 1st Alabama Volunteers ten years later, served in Mexican War. Mustered again May 4, 1861 as the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, . . . — — Map (db m38897) HM
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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
The Supreme Court Of Alabama
The supreme court is the highest state court in Alabama. It is composed of a chief justice and eight associate justices elected statewide for a term of six years. The Supreme Court has the power to review . . . — — Map (db m268896) HM
Dedicated December 14, 2019
By
Kay Ivey, Governor
Alabama Legislature
Alabama Bicentennial Commission
Alabama Bicentennial Park is a legacy of Alabama's 200th anniversary of statehood, commemorated between March 3, 2017, and December 14, . . . — — Map (db m268820) HM
Dedicated December 14, 2019
By
Kay Ivey, Governor
Alabama Legislature
Alabama Bicentennial Commission
Alabama Bicentennial Park is a legacy of Alabama's 200th anniversary of statehood, commemorated between March 3, 2017, and December 14, . . . — — Map (db m268822) HM
Alabama Bicentennial Park
Alabama Bicentennial Park commemorates Alabama's
200th anniversary of statehood. The park's bronze relief
sculptures present sixteen moments from Alabama history,
complemented by narratives that provide historical . . . — — Map (db m182565) HM
North/Navy Side "The seamen of Confederate fame startled the wondering world: for braver fight was never fought, and fairer flag was never furled." Anon.
West/Cavalry Side "The knightliest of the knightly race who since the . . . — — Map (db m86060) HM
For almost the first century of statehood, Alabama's governors lived in private homes or hotels while in office. In 1911 the state acquired the Moses Sable home on South Perry Street for the governor's residence. Lined with fine houses, Perry was . . . — — Map (db m25413) HM
1819 The First Constitution of Alabama (1819), under which the state was admitted to the Union, provided that "until the General Assembly shall otherwise prescribe, the powers of the Supreme Court shall be vested in, and its duties shall be . . . — — Map (db m269447) HM
Twelve miles above Montgomery the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers unite to form the Alabama which meanders over four hundred miles on its way to Mobile Bay. This river has played major role in region's history, being a thoroughfare for Native Americans, . . . — — Map (db m26591) HM
Alabama State Capitol has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the . . . — — Map (db m74156) HM
Alabama State University. The Early Years. Founded in 1867, the Lincoln School in Marion, Alabama became the first state-assisted normal school for African Americans in 1874. The school prospered in that location for 13 years, . . . — — Map (db m254913) HM
Alabama State University. Founded 1866 as the Abraham Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama by nine former slaves. Operated from 1868 until 1874 by the American Missionary Association. The school began to receive state funding in 1874, . . . — — Map (db m86061) HM
Alabama Territory
In 1817, the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi
were both part of one Mississippi Territory. When Congress
designated Mississippi as a new state in 1817, it provided
that the eastern half of the territory would . . . — — Map (db m182578) HM
Alabama's First Capitals
On March 3, 1817, Congress designated the town of St. Stephens on the Tombigbee River north of Mobile as capital of the newly formed Alabama Territory. There in 1818, the territorial legislature named Huntsville as . . . — — Map (db m86063) HM
Alabama's First Peoples
Humans arrived in what is now Alabama near the end of
the last Ice Age. Waves of people migrated through the area
for centuries before some of them established settlements.
Over time, their culture advanced through . . . — — Map (db m182568) HM
Alabama's Third Century
As Alabama looks beyond its bicentennial year, the future
holds unprecedented opportunity and familiar challenges.
Where coal mines and cotton fields once dominated the
landscape, Alabamians devise cutting edge . . . — — Map (db m182652) HM
To the memory of Albert L. Patterson, 1896-1954.
Soldier, educator, attorney, State Senator, Attorney General-Elect. An honorable life dedicated to his fellow man and to the cause of good government. Shot down by an assassin's bullet June 18, . . . — — Map (db m221983) HM
"We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible because we are final."
Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court of the United States
Lucien D. Gardner
Chief Justice 1940-1951
Associate . . . — — Map (db m269449) HM
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
Aurelia Eliscera Shines Browder was born January 29, 1919, in Montgomery, Alabama. She graduated with honors in 1956 from Alabama State Teachers College (now Alabama State University).
In April 1955, Browder's refusal to give up . . . — — Map (db m246696) HM
The Confederate Congress never issued any regulations specifying which type flag should be carried by regiments in the field. Early in the war, flags were made at home for presentation to individual companies. At first, national flags replaced . . . — — Map (db m86056) HM
Bell Street Baptist Church was organized on August 12, 1883. Under the leadership of Rev. A. L. Hawkins, the early congregation met in a house in Cooks Alley. In 1922, during Rev. G. R. Hill’s tenure, the congregation moved to a building on . . . — — Map (db m245431) HM
Ben F. Moore was born enslaved in Alabama in 1848 to Muddy and Hannah Moore. In 1873, he married Mittie Spencer (1852-19??). The couple had fourteen children, six of whom survived to adulthood. Moore was a tenant farmer turned carpenter and lived on . . . — — Map (db m205230) HM
Bernard Whitehurst and the Whitehurst Case
On December 2, 1975, Bernard Whitehurst was shot to death by a police officer in Montgomery, Alabama. He died behind a house on Holcombe Street, running from police officers who mistakenly believed . . . — — Map (db m69366) HM
Bertha Pleasant Williams
First black employee of Montgomery library system, Bertha Pleasant Williams received a high school degree in Fairfield, AL in 1939, a degree from Alabama State College (now ASU) in 1943, and, in 1949, a BLS degree . . . — — Map (db m71388) HM
Bertha Pleasant Williams Library Rosa L. Parks Avenue Branch has been placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage by the Alabama Historical Commission October 25, 2018 — — Map (db m136278) HM
Organized in 1867 as the Second Colored Baptist Church, congregation later changed named to Bethel Missionary Baptist. First building burned in 1908. Rev. E.W. Pickett then conducted services in "Love and Charity Hall" until second structure built . . . — — Map (db m254911) HM
Bethelonia Missionary Baptist Church began as
a brush harbor at the entrance of Gibson Hills
and Woodley Road on land owned by N.J. Bell and
D.S. Sellars, about a mile from its present site.
The structure that stands today was built on
March . . . — — Map (db m302481) HM
Beulah Baptist Church was organized in the home of Monday and Dora Duvall, on the corner of Hull and Winnie Streets. Rev. William (Billy) Jenkins served as the pastor when the first church building was erected on Norton Street. Beulah served as the . . . — — Map (db m71377) HM
Bill Traylor was born into an enslaved family on a Dallas County plantation. Around age ten, Traylor and his family were relocated to another plantation in neighboring Lowndes County, where they remained as laborers after Emancipation. Between 1939 . . . — — Map (db m205231) HM
Side 1
On Dec. 1, 1955, at Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) in a basement room in Councill Hall, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned and publicized after the arrest that day of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up . . . — — Map (db m91279) HM
Nat King Cole was a jazz pianist, composer, and singer celebrated as an American popular music artist in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was born March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama as one of five children to Edward James Coles, a minister at Beulah . . . — — Map (db m71228) HM
Unit A of the Bricklayers Hall served as the office of Charles Swinger
Conley, who was the attorney of record for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and the Montgomery Improvement Association. In 1961, Conley joined
with Attorney Arthur Kinoy, who gave . . . — — Map (db m175162) HM
As the social and cultural epicenters of Montgomery's black
communities in the 1950s and 1960s, black churches also played a
political role, providing sanctuary and strength against discrimination
On December 5, 1955 following the first day of . . . — — Map (db m91464) HM
1868-1869: Senate: Benjamin F. Royal, Bullock; House: Benjamin Alexander, Greene; James H. Alston, Macon; Samuel Blandon, Lee; John Carraway, Mobile; George Cox, Montgomery; Thomas H. Diggs, . . . — — Map (db m46414) HM
1868-1869: Senate: Benjamin F. Royal, Bullock; House: Benjamin Alexander, Greene; James H. Alston, Macon; Samuel Blandon, Lee; John Carraway, Mobile; George Cox, Montgomery; Thomas H. Diggs, . . . — — Map (db m91290) HM
(side 1)
Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA
Born Virginia; educated VMI and West Point; fought in Mexico; practiced law in California; married Alabamian whose family owned the Tallassee cotton mill; served as general in . . . — — Map (db m86065) HM
Buried here are 78 officers and men of the Royal Air Force who lost their lives whilst training in Montgomery, Alabama during the Second World War.
Nearly 1,000 men who died during that war or the First World War when serving with the forces of . . . — — Map (db m206427) WM
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
From Division Headquarters, located at this point from August 1917 to May 1918, was directed the training of the Thirty Seventh Division, National Guard Troops of Ohio, for Service in the World War.
The Relief map below indicates the locations . . . — — Map (db m38899) HM
In July 1885, the state Adjutant General authorized the organization of a black infantry company known as the Capital City Guards. Joseph L. Ligon was elected captain. Over the next 20 years, the Capital City Guards were a source of tremendous civic . . . — — Map (db m71260) HM
In 1904, Colonel J. S. Pinckard and Mr. Henry L. Davis purchased the Vickers plantation, a 200-acre cotton producing area located east of the Montgomery city limits.
The new owners petitioned the City of Montgomery to purchase a strip of land . . . — — Map (db m217248) HM
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
This neighborhood evolved around historic First Congregational Church established through the American Missionary Association (AMA) October 6, 1872, by Pastor George Whitfield Andrews. In 1867 the AMA and the Freedmen's Bureau, headed by General . . . — — Map (db m86067) HM
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Charles O. Harris was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on August 5, 1852.
He attended Oberlin College in Ohio. Later, in 1870, he became one of
the first students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Returning
to Alabama during . . . — — Map (db m155110) HM
Charlestown was developed by Charles Van Depoele, a pioneer in electric railway technology and inventor of the electric trolley pole. The first citywide electric streetcar system, the Capital City Street Railway or the Lightening Route ran parallel . . . — — Map (db m250889) HM
Lucille and Charlie (d. 2/7/78) Times were married on February 3, 1939. Shortly after, the Times' joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Mr. Times received several medals and a Commendation for his service in . . . — — Map (db m310058) HM
Greek immigrant Christopher Anastasios Katechis opened Chris’ Hot Dogs on May 1, 1917, at 138 Dexter Avenue. Until the 1960’s, Chris offered curb service for its hot dogs, leading to long lines of cars cued for service. The hot dogs featured Chris’ . . . — — Map (db m312089) HM
1) In the 1940s, several Black bus passengers are arrested on Montgomery's public buses for sitting in "white-only" seats. Black citizens are repeatedly assaulted, harassed, and mistreated on racially segregated city buses, which become the . . . — — Map (db m303980) HM
City of Montgomery Two small villages, New Philadelphia, founded by Massachusetts lawyer Andrew Dexter in 1817, and East Alabama, established by Georgians led by John Scott in 1818, united in 1819 to form Montgomery, named for Revolutionary hero . . . — — Map (db m86068) HM
(side 1)
City of St. Jude
Founded by Father Harold Purcell in the 1930s, the City of St. Jude included church, school, medical facilities, social center and rectory. Its mission was to provide spiritual, educational, social and . . . — — Map (db m86070) HM
On May 20, 1961, a group of black and white SNCC members led by John Lewis left Birmingham for Montgomery on a Greyhound bus. They were determined to continue the "Freedom Ride" from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans that had met with violence in . . . — — Map (db m71256) HM
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
Side A During the War Between the States medical knowledge was primitive. As a result, twice as many men died of disease than in battle from wounds. Early in the War, childhood diseases such as measles, mumps and chicken pox decimated entire . . . — — Map (db m36495) HM
This home was constructed in 1940 for Mary Anne and Q.P. Colvin. Their daughter Claudette Colvin refused on March 2, 1955, to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery city bus. This event occurred nine months before the incident in . . . — — Map (db m246526) HM
The church was organized in 1912 under Rev. O. W. Walker and moved from
Bell Street to the present location during the same year. The first deacons
of the new church were Nathaniel Brown Jr., Willie B. Davis, James Gaston
Sr., and Earnest . . . — — Map (db m223849) HM
A native of Opelika, Alabama, he is the son of Clement C. Torbert and Lynda Meadows Torbert. He was educated in the Opelika public schools. He attended the United States Naval Academy and received his B.S. Degree from Auburn University in 1951. He . . . — — Map (db m86073) HM
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks left work and boarded a downtown bus. Her destination was home, Cleveland Court Apartment No. 634. She didn't make it home that day as she was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white man. This single . . . — — Map (db m310061) HM
Side 1
Confederate Military Prison
Near this site, from mid April to December 1862, a Confederate military prison held, under destitute conditions, 700 Union soldiers, most captured at Shiloh. They were imprisoned in a foul, . . . — — Map (db m71369) HM
In February, 1861, delegates from six of the seven seceding southern states met in Montgomery to establish the government of the CSA. Newly elected President Jefferson Davis named J.H. Reagan of Texas as Postmaster General. Reagan established the . . . — — Map (db m71242) HM
Cotton State
Alabama's rapid growth depended on cotton cultivation.
Statehood coincided with improvement of the cotton gin and
increased demand for cotton in British and northern factories.
Within thirty years, Alabama was producing 23 . . . — — Map (db m182595) HM
Created by Mississippi Territorial Legislature from lands ceded by Creek Indian Nation in Treaty of Fort Jackson, 1814. Named for Major Lemuel Purnell Montgomery, killed at Horseshoe Bend, 1814, while leading charge on Indian fortifications. . . . — — Map (db m36579) HM
Placed by the City over Artesian Basin and crowned by Hebe, Goddess of Youth and Cup-bearer to the Gods. Fountain was cast by J.L. Mott Iron Works of New York. Restored by Robinson Iron of Alexander City in 1984 during the administration of Mayor . . . — — Map (db m36501) HM
On a wall in this building,
"The Montgomery Theater"
Dan Emmett
first inscribed the score of Dixie for his minstrel orchestra.
H.F. Arnold
arranged it for band music and used it at the inauguration of
Jefferson Davis . . . — — Map (db m36574) HM
Organized from Bethel Baptist Church, congregation founded 1882 with Rev. George Casby as first minister. Originally met in frame building; fund-raising began for this edifice in 1906. Designed by Wallace Rayfield, Tuskegee Institute architect and . . . — — Map (db m71081) HM
These decorative terra cotta lions heads, typical of the ornamentation used in commercial style architecture in the early part of the 20th century, were utilized by the First National Bank of Montgomery on the cornice of their 12 story building . . . — — Map (db m36646) HM
This street was named to honor Andrew Dexter one of the founders of Montgomery Along this street moved the inaugural parade of Jefferson Davis when he took the oath of office as President of the Confederate States of America February 18, 1861 . . . — — Map (db m36589) HM
The second black Baptist Church in Montgomery. First pastor was Rev. C. O. Boothe. Present structure built 1885. Designed by Pelham J. Anderson; built by William Watkins, a member of the congregation.
Many prominent black citizens of Montgomery . . . — — Map (db m25128) HM
Side 1
The Domestic Slave Trade
Beginning in the seventeenth century, millions of African people were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and shipped to the Americas as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In 1808, the United States . . . — — Map (db m86427) HM
(side 1)
The three Dowe houses are a reminder of the residential neighborhood that existed here in the 19th century.
The main family residence, dating from 1863, was originally designed as an Italianate-style "raised cottage." But in . . . — — Map (db m86428) HM
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
Today I want to tell the city of Selma, today I want to
say to the state of Alabama, today I want to say to the
people of America and the nations of the world, that we
are not about to turn around.
We are on the move now.
Yes, we . . . — — Map (db m303973) HM
This site, known as “Posey’s Parking Lot,” served the black community as one of two major transportation centers during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Mrs. Rosa Parks’s December 1, 1955 arrest following her refusal to surrender her seat at the order . . . — — Map (db m71261) HM
Elijah Cook
Educator, Businessman, Lawmaker
Born a slave in Wetumpka in 1833, Elijah Cook became a leader in Montgomery’s African American community. Credited with helping to establish the city’s first school for blacks in the basement . . . — — Map (db m69222) HM
Emancipation
The end of the Civil War in April 1865 and ratification of the
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution meant the end of
enslavement for approximately four hundred thousand black
Alabamians. Freedmen embraced emancipation by . . . — — Map (db m182603) HM
Here at the Indian village of Encanchata, future site of Montgomery, Col. John Tate, last British agent to the Muscogee Nation, recruited and drilled Creek warriors in 1780 to relieve Tories in Augusta, Ga. being besieged by American . . . — — Map (db m310814) HM
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, he is the son of Ernest Arnold Hornsby and Kate Clayton Hornsby. A 1955 graduate of Tallassee High School, he received his B.A. Degree from Auburn University and his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Alabama . . . — — Map (db m69338) HM
1540 expedition of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto was first to penetrate Alabama interior. After advancing down Coosa Valley these adventurers camped nearby at Towasa (TO THE WEST) and then followed river on its southern course. In 1702. . . . — — Map (db m224812) HM
Lucien Dunbibben Gardner 1940-1951
July 29-Aug 2, 1940 The Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court Library, and the Attorney General moved into the Judicial Building.
October 17, 1940 The members of the Supreme . . . — — Map (db m269441) HM
In honor of the fallen heroes of Montgomery County
who gave their lives in the Vietnam War
Arrington, Samuel W., Jr. • Deas, Charles Milton • Johnson, Curtis • Rogers William T., IV
Baldwin, Larry Glenn • Deichelmann, Samuel M. • Keefe, . . . — — Map (db m90864) WM
Side 1:
Founded November 29, 1829, with four charter members. English-born Lee Compere, a missionary to the Creek Indians, was the first pastor. Services initially were held monthly in a building shared by other denominations. In 1833, the . . . — — Map (db m71251) HM
Organized in 1866, this pioneering congregation grew out of First Baptist Church, now on Perry Street, where early parishioners had worshipped as slaves. The first building, facing Columbus Street, was erected in 1867. Nathan Ashby served as first . . . — — Map (db m36499) HM
One of the oldest African American churches in Montgomery, the First Congregational Christian Church was founded in 1872 by members of the American Missionary Association. The church was part of several institutions sponsored by the group in the . . . — — Map (db m248548) HM
The "Stars and Bars," designed by Nicola Marshall of Marion, Alabama, was adopted by the flag selection committee of the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery and raised over the capitol building on March 4, 1861. Its similarity to the . . . — — Map (db m69314) HM
Here were located the first offices of the Confederate government from Feb. 22, 1861 to May 21, 1861.
Secondary marker:
This historic marker relocated on this original site by Preceptor Delta Chapter, Beta Sigma . . . — — Map (db m104718) HM
First United Methodist Church, organized September 15, 1829, is the oldest organized church in the city of Montgomery. Located on Court Street downtown for nearly 100 years, the congregation purchased for $20,000 this site in Cloverdale Park in . . . — — Map (db m69191) HM
Designated Executive Residence by the
Provisional Confederate Congress
February 21, 1861. President Jefferson Davis
and his family lived here until the Confederate
Capital moved to Richmond summer 1861.
Built by William Sayre 1832-35 at . . . — — Map (db m7581) HM
On this site stood The First White House of the Confederacy William Sayre built his townhouse here between 1832 and 1835. On February 21, 1861, the provisional Confederate Congress leased it for the Executive Residence. . . . — — Map (db m62748) HM
F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and daughter Scottie lived in this house from October 1931 to April 1932.
During this period Fitzgerald worked on his novel Tender Is the Night and Zelda began her only novel, Save Me the . . . — — Map (db m69187) HM
Located at the hilltop overlooking Downtown
Montgomery, Five Points is an intersection of history
and humanity. Here the historic black communities of
West Montgomery meet the Cottage Hill neighborhood
featuring Montgomery's most preserved . . . — — Map (db m91734) HM
Honoring
Alabama
* War *
Veterans
Erected in commemoration
of the
50th Anniversary
of the
American Legion
Department
of Alabama
March 15,1969 — — Map (db m69308) WM
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