The first issue of The Alabama Baptist newspaper was published on February 4, 1843 in Marion, AL. This building, built as an office building in the e …
The Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame honors the achievements of outstanding women from Alabama. Established in 1970, the first women were inducted the fol …
Shown is a small church in northwest Perry County, AL that was redesigned and rebuilt by four students from Auburn University’s Rural Studio at Newber …
This Vermont Colonial-style house was built by the Bates family circa 1830. This two-story structure was originally constructed of hand-hewn logs that …
This church was built by freed slaves in 1873, Berean is an offspring of Siloam Baptist Church. Siloam and local Baptists gave $1000 for the building …
This home was built for Edward A. Blount and his wife, Mary, between 1853 and 1859. In January 1852, the Blount’s bought three lots at the location of …
This home was built sometime during the 1830s and 1840s by James Bishop Chambers and his wife, Rebecca Adams Chambers. The house was originally “plant …
This Neo-Classical house was built by Dr. Solon Lycurgus Coleman on a lot he purchased on February 20, 1906. It has a central double leaf entrance wi …
During the Civil War, Breckinridge Military Hospital was established at Howard College in Marion (now the campus of Marion Military Institute). Soldie …
Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) grew up on the farm of her parents, Obadiah “Obie” Scott and Bernice McMurray Scott, located north of Marion near the c …
Thought to have been built around 1890, this was the office of the dentist, Dr. William Wilson Corley. He sold it in 1906 to another dentist, Dr. J. P …
This Greek Revival house was built about 1833 by William S. Craig. It has outside chimneys and double doors with sidelights. The small porch at the fr …
The date 1863 was found scratched into a brick on the east wall. According to local tradition, the earliest occupant was a lawyer who used the top flo …
This building, built around 1830, is one of Marion’s earliest hotels. It is thought to be the place where General Sam Houston stayed when he came to …
Elmcrest, built ca. 1838, is the oldest building on the Judson College campus. In 1851, Judge John Moore purchased this home from Samuel Fowlkes and …
Fairhope is a historic 2 ½-story Gothic Revival style plantation home that was built for Joseph Selden and his wife, Elizabeth Minge Selden, as the ce …
According to the August 5, 1866 minutes of the Uniontown Baptist Church, the Colored portion of the church requested that their White Brothers grant l …
This church congregation was established in 1869 at the Lincoln School by freed slaves and representatives of the American Missionary Association. The …
The Presbyterian Church was organized in 1848 at the home of Col. J. H. Davidson, The Slopes Plantation, which was located south of Uniontown. The con …
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 …
Around midnight on October 15, 1854, the four-story brick Howard College building (then located near the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion) caught fire. …
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 …
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 …
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 Huntington-Locke House, built circa 1834, was originally the home of the noted silversmiths Roswell and William Huntington from North Carolina. Th …
On February 18, 1965, the 26 year old Marion native, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot by an Alabama State Trooper while participating in a civil rights ma …
In 1821, just two years after Alabama became a state, John Johnston purchased land from the Federal Government for a home. Shortly afterward, this fra …
This home was built circa 1835 by Osmond T. Jones. It is believed that the house was designed by the same architect that designed Beauvoir, the Jeffer …
Robert Tingnal Jones, a graduate of West Point, moved to Perry County in 1838 where he surveyed and constructed the Cahaba and Marion Railroad. He bui …
This dwelling, also referred to as the Ballard-Haynie-Barnes House, is thought to have been built around 1845. It is a two-story, hipped roof structur …
Judson College was established in 1838 by members of Siloam Baptist Church, and it opened January 7, 1839. Judson is the fifth oldest women’s college …
This home, also referred to as the Dean’s House, was built around 1904 for T. D. and Leila Rush Kemp. The original house was a one-story frame buildin …
Kenworthy Hall, also known as the Carlisle-Martin House and Carlisle Hall, was designed by New York architect, Richard Upjohn, and is one of the best …
This is one of Marion’s oldest homes thought to have been built around 1819. It is a raised cottage which is rare in the Black Belt, and is most ofte …
This home was built by Henry C. Lea, brother of Margaret Moffet Lea, and it was the site of the marriage of Margaret Lea and General Sam Houston, Pres …
Built about 1898 by Lane Lee, this house is typical of late Victorian cottage style prevalent from 1890 to 1910. Features of the house include a wrapa …
The Lincoln Normal School was a historic African American school in Marion, Alabama. Lincoln Normal was founded in 1867 by freed slaves as a school fo …
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