Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame located in Judson’s Bean Hall at Marion, AL

The Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame honors the achievements of outstanding women from Alabama. Established in 1970, the first women were inducted the following year. The AWHOF became a state agency by an act of the Alabama legislature in 1975. The museum …

Bluff Hall at Demopolis, AL (built 1832 & modified 1840s; recorded in HABS; listed on the NRHP)

Bluff Hall is located atop a limestone cliff overlooking the Tombigbee River in Demopolis. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter, Sarah Serena Glover, and her husband, Francis Strother Lyon. The Lyons used Bluff Hall as a townhou …

Choctaw County Historical Museum at Gilbertown, AL

This is an interpretative museum that’s located beside the Town Park at downtown Gilbertown.  The main building of the museum contains artifacts that illustrate life in Choctaw County during earlier times.  Behind the main museum is another building th …

Clarke County Historical Museum at Grove Hill, AL

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 the Alston-Cobb House which was built in 1854. The museum contains a treasure of southwest Alabama hist …

Cuba, Alabama Museum

This museum contains displays that illustrate life in Cuba from its beginning. Of special interest are photographs of Cuba since 1952. This museum is featured site #22 in the Sumter County, Alabama Historical Points of Interest visitors brochure. The m …

Gaineswood at Demopolis, AL (constructed 1843-1861; recorded in HABS; listed on the NRHP)

Constructed over an 18 year period (1843-1861), Gaineswood evolved from a two-room “dogtrot” cabin into a Greek Revival style mansion.  General Nathan Bryan Whitfield, the builder, was his own architect, though he had no formal training.  The labor was …

Heiberger Post Office at Heiberger, AL (building built ca. 1895, Post Office operated 1904-1959)

This building was built circa 1895 approximately one-half mile south of its current location and served the community as a general merchandise store owned by William Fletcher Moore. The building was moved to its present location in 1904. Also during 19 …

Magnolia Grove at Greensboro, AL (built ca. 1840; recorded in HABS; listed on the NRHP; now serves as a historical house museum)

Magnolia Grove, an excellent example of temple-style Greek Revival architecture, was built around 1840 as a town house by Isaac and Sarah Croom, whose plantations were about 20 miles south of Greensboro near Faunsdale. The house was named for the 15-ac …

Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation at Folsom, AL (one of Alabama’s last active plantations)

West of Marion, AL in the community of Folsom is one of Alabama’s last active plantations, one which has been in the same family since the early 1800s. William “the wagon maker” Moore came from South Carolina in 1819 and homesteaded in Alabama.  Since …

Moundville Archaeological Park near Tuscaloosa, AL

Called “The Big Apple of the 14th Century” by National Geographic, Moundville Archaeological Park was once the site of a powerful prehistoric community that, at its peak, was America’s largest city north of Mexico.  Located on the Black Warrior River n …

Old Cahawba near Orrville, AL (site of Alabama’s First State Capital)

Located east of Orrville at the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers, the town initially known as Cahawba served as the state’s first permanent capital from 1820 until 1825. When the capital was moved from Cahawba in 1826 to Tuscaloosa, many of …

Old City Hall Building at Marion, AL (built ca. 1832, listed on the NRHP)

This building was built circa 1832 as a law office. It was the first YMCA building in the South to be owned by a local chapter. Additionally, the building served as the Marion City Hall for forty years. In the 1968, it was moved from the courthouse  sq …