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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQD_dauphin-island-indian-shell-mound-park_Dauphin-Island-AL.html
This park and bird refuge dates from the Mississippian Period (AD 1100 to 1550). Native Americans, who roasted oysters and fished in adjacent Dauphin Island Bay, visited the shell mounds for centuries. From excavations carried out in 1990, archaeo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQ2_washington-county_Chatom-AL.html
Created in 1800 by proclamation of
governor of Mississippi Territory.
This was first U.S. civil government
in area that was to become Alabama.
Its original boundaries:
East to west: Chattahoochee to Pearl River;
South, 31° lat. (present …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2APZ_history-of-lottie-alabama_Atmore-AL.html
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Lottie has the highest elevation in Baldwin County. A ridge forms a divide where waters to the east flow into Pensacola Bay and waters to the west flow into Mobile Bay. Pine Log Creek begins in Lottie. Pine Log Ditch, used to float logs for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2APY_the-sullivan-cabin_Wagarville-AL.html
The Sullivan Cabin was built on the east side of Bassett Creek, in
1874 by Gibeon Jefferson Sullivan, a Confederate soldier who served
in Co. A. 32nd Ala Infantry, an all-volunteer company made up of
men from Washington County. The cabin is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2APT_bassetts-creek_Wagarville-AL.html
Named for Thomas Bassett, a British Loyalist and native of Virginia. Migrated to Tombigbee area from near Augusta, Ga. circa 1772 to escape persecution by American patriots. Received in 1776, from King George III, a grant of 750 acres on the west …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A7C_lower-dexter-park_Montgomery-AL.html
History Happened Here
The City of Montgomery built this public park on one of the
lots occupied by the Montgomery Fair Department Store.
Rosa Parks was an assistant to the tailor for Montgomery Fair.
On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks left her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29VJ_ogly-stroud-massacre-garys-stockade_Greenville-AL.html
Ogly-Stroud Massacre
William Ogly built his cabin near this site at Poplar Springs along the Federal Road, and was killed here with most of his family on March 13, 1818. His friend Eli Stroud's wife was fatally wounded and their infant child k…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29VF_bartrams-trail_Greenville-AL.html
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William Bartram, America's first great naturalist, passed through northwest Butler County in July 1775. He described the "limestone rocks" and "banks of various kinds of sea shells" left by oceans that covered this area millions of years ag…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29VC_butler-county-world-war-i-memorial-a-war-memorial_Greenville-AL.html
On August 28, 1917, Alabama National Guardsmen departed from Union Station in Montgomery for shipment to France as the 167th United States Infantry Regiment of the Rainbow Division. Men from Butler County killed in action during 1918 in that great…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29OS_union-siege-battery-no-1_Spanish-Fort-AL.html
Near this site was the location of the first of twenty-two artillery positions the Union army set up to bombard the Confederate fortifications of Spanish Fort. The Confederate forces were under the command of Brig Gen. Randall Gibson. Battery Trac…