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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI5G_shades-crest-road-historical-district_Birmingham-AL.html
Indian, Wagon Trail, now Shades Crest Road, led to popular chalybeate springs. Summit, now Bluff Park, was a resort known for its view, cool air and healing mineral water. In 1899 school / church was built. In 1909 Bluff Park Hotel, built on land …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI57_ross-bridge_Hoover-AL.html
In 1858 James Taylor Ross, a Scotchman, migrated to the South, acquired land and homesteaded in what is now Shades Valley. He provided land for the construction of a railway, including a bridge spanning Ross Creek. After the Ross family moved west…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI51_samford-university_Homewood-AL.html
Multiple purpose Christian university founded 1841 as Howard College by Alabama Baptists at Marion.
Moved to East Lake, Birmingham, 1887. Established on this campus 1957.
Acquired Cumberland School of Law, Lebanon, Tennessee 1961.
Coll…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI4M_oxmoor-iron-furnaces_Birmingham-AL.html
First blast furnace in Jefferson County erected near this site (1863) by Red Mountain Coal and Iron Co. Destroyed (1865) by Federal troops: rebuilt (1873) and second furnace added. Successful experimental run made in Furnace No. 2 (1876) using loc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI41_congressional-medal-of-honor-recipients_Leeds-AL.html
Staff Sergeant Henry E. ErwinCitation: Staff Sergeant Henry Erwin, U.S. Army Air Corps, 52d Bombardment Squadron, 29th Bombardment Group, 314th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force. He was the radio operator of a B-29 airplane leading a group formatio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI1L_morris-avenue-historic-district-elyton-land-company-successor-birmingham-realty-co_Birmingham-AL.html
Created 1972 by the Jefferson County Historical Commission, the district is based on this avenue. Morris Avenue was named for one of the founders of Birmingham, Josiah Morris, who paid $100,000 for 4,157 acres of the original site of the city in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI05_lane-park_Birmingham-AL.html
In 1822 William Pullen, Revolutionary War veteran, acquired this land from the Federal Government for farming. In 1889 his heirs sold the land to the City of Birmingham for use as the New Southside Cemetery which operated from 1889 to 1909 with 4,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI04_jefferson-county-courthouse-site_Birmingham-AL.html
The county seat of Jefferson County was moved from Elyton to Birmingham in 1873. On this site stood the first Courthouse in the City of Birmingham. The Italianate style structure was designed by architect W. K. Ball. Completed in 1875, the two-sto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI02_independent-presbyterian-church_Birmingham-AL.html
The church was founded when the Rev. Henry M. Edmonds and many members of a Southern Presbyterian congregation withdrew from the local Presbytery. During the first seven years it met in Temple Emanu-El synagogue and held evening services in the Ly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI01_hollywood-hollywood-town-hall-hollywood-country-club_Homewood-AL.html
Clyde Nelson, born in Columbiana, Alabama, was only 26 when he began development of the Town of Hollywood in 1926. With a sales force of 75 and the slogan "Out of the smoke zone, into the ozone" his beautiful community soon took shape. Homes were …