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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16ML_the-first-white-house-of-the-confederacy_Montgomery-AL.html
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. President Jefferson Davi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16MK_selma-to-montgomery-march_Montgomery-AL.html
Side AThe Selma-to-Montgomery March ended here on March 25, 1965, when 25,000 civil rights marchers arrived at the Alabama State Capitol to demand the right to vote for African Americans. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ZA_montgomery_Montgomery-AL.html
After Horseshoe Bend defeat, Creeks ceded millions of acres to United States. Cotton was in great demand. This area ideal for crop which is still planted on peninsular across river. In 1817, lands went on sale. Andrew Dexter, Massachusetts lawyer,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15IX_ministers-home-dr-martin-luther-king_Montgomery-AL.html
Side AHouse built circa 1912. It has been the home of the ministers of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church since 1919. Its most famous occupant, Dr. Martin Luther King , lived here from Sept. 1954-Feb. 1960. During this time he lead the Bus Boycott launc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV8P_black-members-of-the-alabama-legislature-who-served-during-the-reconstruction-period-of-1868-1879_Montgomery-AL.html
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, Barbour; Joseph Drawn, Dallas; Ovide Gregory, Mobile; Ja…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTAE_trinity-evangelical-lutheran-church_Montgomery-AL.html
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1918 at this location by ministers of what later became the American Lutheran Church under whose auspices the congregation organized a day schoolon the property across the street. That school se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTAC_mount-zion-african-methodist-episcopal-ame-zion-church_Montgomery-AL.html
Side 1Located at the heart of Montgomery's historic African-American neighborhoods. Mount Zion A.M.E. Zion Church was constructed in 1899 and heavily remodeled in 1921. It served as a significant Center for religious, political, and social life fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ1X_marshall-j-moore-house_Montgomery-AL.html
In 1900, Marshall Moore and his wife, Agnes V. McClain commissioned Joseph G. Nesbitt,Sr., an African- American contractor/builder, to construct this Victorian period cottage. The Moores, among the first graduates and early faculty members of Linc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ1L_pickett-springs-the-best-public-resort_Montgomery-AL.html
Pickett SpringsRailroad building and amusement park development flourished in the post-bellum South. In 1880s, Western Railroad of Alabama opened Pickett Springs on site of William Harris's plantation, "Forest Farm;" Harris's daughter, Sarah, marr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ1K_camp-sheridan_Montgomery-AL.html
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 …