Tanglewood is a historic plantation house near Akron, Alabama. The Greek Revival cottage was built in 1859 by Page Harris, on land that he had purchas …
This 2-story, Greek Revival style plantation home, located southeast of Orrville in the Molette’s Bend area of the Alabama River, was built on land or …
This Jewish temple was completed during December 1899 and dedicated in February 1900. It is a two-story, Romanesque Revival structure with two symmetr …
The “Spring House” is located near the Civil War monument in Old Live Oak Cemetery at Selma. This name came from the old practice of having band conce …
The Alabama River Museum is part of the Monroe County Heritage Museums. It is located on the east bank of the Alabama River at the Claiborne Lock and …
The Bank of Eutaw opened on Feb. 15, 1882, with B.B. Barnes as cashier. The rusticated stucco facade of imitation stone and the round arches of the wi …
The Bank of Pine Apple began with the sale of stock in 1903 and was chartered the same year as a state bank. The bank building was built in about 1904 …
The Beloit Industrial Institute, which operated from 1888 to 1923, was the first Christian school for African-Americans in Dallas County. It was locat …
Joe Anderson owned and operated the Shoe Shop in Camden for over forty years. His daughter Betty Anderson has preserved the shop as a museum to honor …
The Camellias is a beautiful antebellum home located just south of Marion, AL. It gets its name from the many camellia bushes located on the front la …
This historical marker is located beside Madison Road about three miles east of Gainestown in south Clarke County (GPS coordinates 31.445267, -87.6443 …
The Clarke County Historical Museum opened in 1986 as a project of the Clarke County Historical Society. It is located at downtown Grove Hill, AL in t …
This was the showroom for coffins of builder, Edward Kring. Here you would pick out your material and wood for your coffin which would then be custom …
The First Baptist Church of Selma was organized in 1842. The congregation erected their first permanent building in 1850 at the corner of Church Stree …
From 1958 to 1969, Thomasville was the location of an Air Force Radar Base which was home to the 698th Aircraft Control and Warning Radar Squadron. Th …
This house was built in 1840 for Augustus Foscue, a North Carolina native who owned more than 3,000 acres and 137 slaves in Marengo County by 1850. Th …
During the Civil Rights Movement, black residents of Gee’s Bend began taking the ferry to the county seat at Camden to try to register to vote. Local …
Gee’s Bend is a small rural community located in a curve in the Alabama River in the northern part of Wilcox County, AL. Founded in the early 1800s, …
This Greek Revival-style mausoleum was built between 1841 and 1845 on a chalk bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River in Demopolis. It was built by Mary …
This historic Uniontown mansion was boarded up and abandoned in the mid-1990s after the remains of a boy who had been reported missing nine years earl …
The Harmony Club is a Renaissance Revival three-story commercial building with a cast iron storefront. It was built in 1909 as a social club by Selma’ …
This beautiful antebellum home was built circa 1845 for Col. Green G. Mobley from Fairfield District, SC and his Vermont-born second wife, Henrietta. …
The town of Thomaston, which was founded by Dr. Charles B. Thomas, was incorporated November 15, 1901. In 1907, the Alabama State Legislature voted to …
Demopolis has a long tradition of theaters. The Braswell Theater opened in 1902. Next was the Elks/Si-Non/Lido that operated from 1915 to 1935. On …
Founded in 1835, the Marion Female Seminary was one of the earliest colleges for women in the United States. It was the first of four colleges establi …
Called “The Big Apple of the 14th Century” by National Geographic, Moundville Archaeological Park was once the site of a powerful prehistoric communit …
This school building was built in 1928. The school closed May 1961 and its students started attending Sweet Water High School. The Nanafalia School bu …
In 1925 the United States Congress passed the Kelly Act and created the U.S. Department of Commerce which in turn established the U.S. Air Mail. In 1 …
The old Blacksmith Shop, commonly referred to as the Red Shed, was built around 1895. The building has a simple board and batten construction. This wa …
Provided are pictures taken August 2010 of the old cable ferry that operated at Davis Ferry on the Alabama River at Haines Island in west Monroe Count …
Settlement of Dayton began in the early 19th century, with a town survey done and a “public well” established in 1832. The post office was established …
The Grant Store was built in 1924 by T. L. S. Grant. It was a general store that contained anything that country folks living in the early and mid 19 …
This small one-room jail was built about 1907, the year that Faunsdale was incorporated as a town. It is the oldest separate jail in Marengo County a …
The Kimbrough Hospital was a privately owned hospital built circa 1937 by Dr. Cecil E. Kimbrough as a service to the community to provide healthcare. …
Thomaston, like several other towns in our area, began as a railroad town. The Town of Thomaston was incorporated on November 15, 1901, and the railr …
This old general store is the most famous landmark in the historic community of Burnt Corn. It was built by James K. Kyser who became the Postmaster i …
The old Naheola Bridge is a unique landmark in Alabama history. Until its closure to automobile traffic in 2001, it was one of only a few bridges in t …
This little post office building is located in southeast Conecuh County. Immigrants of South Carolina settled in this area in the 1870s. As the local …
Built circa 1910, this old jail is a major landmark in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights movement. It was involved in many events that occurred in Ma …