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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVJ_oak-grove-school_Greensboro-AL.html
Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washing and Julius Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck & Company president, initiated one of the most ambitiuous school building programs for African Americans in the United States. The Oak Grove School is one example of the more…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPKC_freetown_Gallion-AL.html
Side AIn 1867 a group of African American men and women laid the foundations for Freetown. William, John, Albert, George, Richard, and Peter Collins; Susan and Lawrence Moore; Thomas Jeffries; the children of John Jeffries; and Louisa Conway and h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPKB_dr-benjamin-m-duggar_Gallion-AL.html
Discover of the antibiotic, Aureomycin Son of a beloved country doctor, he carried a dedicated spirit to the frontiers of science Having won degrees at Alabama, Auburn, Missouri, Harvard and Cornell, he taught at Cornell, Missouri, Wisconsin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPK8_st-andrews-church_Gallion-AL.html
1834 - Organized as mission by Rev. Caleb S. Ives for settlers coming here to the Canebrake from Atlantic Seaboard 1844 - made parish of Diocese of Alabama1851 - this site selected1853-54 - this building erected
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJ9_southern-university_Greensboro-AL.html
Merged in 1918 as part ofBirmingham Southern College. Founded here in 1856by Methodist Church. Weathered War and Reconstructionto prosper in late 1800's.Moved to Birmingham in 1918on merger with Birmingham College,founded in 1896 by Methodist.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJ8_st-pauls-episcopal-church_Greensboro-AL.html
This parish established 1830.Third oldest in Alabama diocese. Church consecrated in 1843 byLeonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana,(later a Confederate general). Here Nicholas H. Cobbs was chosenfirst Bishop of Alabama in 1844. First vestrymen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJ7_greensboro-presbyterian-church_Greensboro-AL.html
Organized 1823 by Rev. James Hillhouseof South Carolina, withPatrick Norris and William Hillhouse,veterans of American Revolution,as founding elders. Original wooden structure replacedby brick building in 1841under pastorate ofRev. Thomas Syden…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJ5_gayle-tunstall-house_Greensboro-AL.html
Built in 1828 by John Gayle,sixth governor of Alabama. Birthplace ofAmelia Gayle Gorgas,wife of Gen. Josiah Gorgas,Chief of Ordnance, CSA,mother of Wm. Crawford Gorgas,US Surgeon General who freedCanal Zone of yellow fever. For many years wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMIW_magnolia-grove_Greensboro-AL.html
Birthplace, ancestral home ofRichard Pearson Hobson1870-1937Spanish - American War HeroAdmiral Hobson, as naval officer,Statesman, lecturer and author,Urged national preparedness:Championed human welfare causes.Alabama made this home a state shrin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKIM_moundville_Moundville-AL.html
Site of a prehistoric Native American political and ceremonial center from about A. D. 1100-1500 that, at its height in the 13th century, was America's largest community north of Mexico. Between 1,000 and 3,000 people lived in this town fortified …
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