George O. Baker House at Selma, AL (built ca. 1854, site of numerous reports of paranormal activity)
This house was built circa 1854 by Selma businessman George O. Baker. The Neo-Classic architecture features a front porch with pillars and a small cup …
This small cottage was built circa 1880 as a servant’s house. It is located on the south side of Third Avenue approximately 100 yards east of the inte …
This house was built by Edwin D. King as a wedding present for his daughter Sarah when she married John Goree in May 1831. At that time it had four ro …
This house, built in the 1830’s, was the home of Alabama’s First Civil War Governor, Andrew Barry Moore. It is located on the north side of Green Str …
This Italianate-style house was built circa 1857. In 1865, Wilson’s Raiders spared the house out of respect for Selma’s Mayor M. J. Williams. For many …
Jeremiah Austill is known as the Paul Revere of Clarke County. As a teenager, he volunteered to make a dangerous night ride to Mt. Vernon following th …
Once an elegant downtown hotel, the Greensboro Hotel remains a local landmark. Impressive brickwork is its most significant feature. Brick-arched door …
The Greensboro Opera House was built in 1903 on the site of an earlier opera house. The original, built in the 1890s, had burned the preceding year. A …
Presbyterians were among the earliest settlers of Greensboro, AL. In 1823, the first Presbyterian church was organized in Greensboro by Rev. James Hil …
This historical marker is inside the Laurie Carleton Park that’s located at downtown Grove Hill in front of the Clarke County Courthouse (GPS coordina …
Haines Island Park is maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Whether you’re inclined to drive, hike, canoe or kayak, Haines Island offers a fa …
Hale County had a legal obligation to provide an animal shelter for the county but had no resources to build it. In 2005, Hale County representatives …
Hale County was created in 1867 with most of it being taken from Greene County. Greensboro was selected as the county seat. Greensboro citizens had …
This building is located on Main Street at downtown Greenboro near the courthouse. It dates back to the 1870s and served in the late 1800s as a law of …
This beautiful house was built around 1845 by a prosperous Greensboro merchant tailor named Philip Happel. This two-story home has both upper and low …
This is a Country Vernacular style home with Greek Revival influences. It was built circa 1900. This house is featured site #33 in the Sumter County, …
Around midnight on October 15, 1854, the four-story brick Howard College building (then located near the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion) caught fire. …
Inside the Monroeville, AL Post Office is a New Deal mural titled, “Harvesting”. This oil-on-canvas painting shows a farmer using a three-mule team t …
The Harvey house, also referred to as Seven Pines, was built circa 1848 by Col J. G. Harvey, long-time editor of the Alabama Beacon. This house has a …
The Hawthorne House, also known as the Col. J. R. Hawthorne House, is a historic plantation house located in east Wilcox County in the community of Pi …
Healing Springs was a thriving resort in the early 1900s. Located at this site were 17 overflowing springs and the water from these springs was suppos …
This 1 1/2 story, 5 bay wide, Greek Revival house has a recessed, front porch and a side gable roof with returns. The full width porch has six square …
The land on which this house is located was patented by the U. S. government to schools along with all of the 16th sections in the State. On January 4 …
The “Heart of Clarke” wall mural is located beside the mini-park at the Courthouse Square in Grove Hill, AL. It was painted by local artists, Johnna B …
This church is located just east of Highway 5 about midway between Marion and Brent. The church is on a hill overlooking Coone’s Landing Bridge on the …
This building was built circa 1895 approximately one-half mile south of its current location and served the community as a general merchandise store o …
This Greek revival mansion was built c. 1855 for William B. King and named “Fairoaks” for the many trees found about the place. King was the nephew of …
This house, now called the Green House, is probably the oldest dwelling in Butler. It was originally a 2-room dogtrot cabin, possibly built by Jim Ken …
The Henry House, also known as the Lowry-Ford-Henry House, is a historic antebellum plantation house in Marion. This is just one of about 90 antebellu …
Dr. James A. Hildreth, son of the Revolutionary War Veteran, Reuben Hildreth, built this home. He bought the property where this home is located on Ma …
This historical marker in a small park at downtown Linden. The marker was erected by the Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Linden in 2010. Be …
This historical marker is located beside Highway 28 at Thomaston’s Town Pond. It was erected April 2010 by The Alabama Tourism Department and the town …
The Newbern Methodist congregation selected the present site and completed this church in the fall of 1884. (Prior to this time, they held their serv …
Located in the Green Street Historic District, this Greek Revival cottage has small ornate columns with saw-work details on the porches. The house has …
In 1844, Episcopalians in Uniontown and Marengo County united to form Union Parish. The parish was admitted to the Diocese of Alabama on May 2, 1845. …
The Horn-Jones-Sadler law office was built around 1846. It is a one-story, shotgun structure with a gabled end portico. The building contains Victor …
This is a Greek Revival style house with Victorian additions. It was probably built in the 1840-1850 time period. The original owner of the house is …
The Huntington-Locke House, built circa 1834, was originally the home of the noted silversmiths Roswell and William Huntington from North Carolina. Th …
This Queen Ann style home was built between 1906 and 1920 by a contractor from Brewton, AL who built several homes in Monroeville during this time per …