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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHRB_jordan-home_Birmingham-AL.html
Dr. Mortimer Harvie Jordan and his wife, Florence E. Mudd, constructed their home between 1906 and 1908. After service in the Confederate army, Jordan studied medicine in Cincinnati and New York (under Alabama's famous gynecologist, Dr. J. Marion …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHR9_donnelly-house_Birmingham-AL.html
This neoclassical structure was built in 1905 for James W. Donnelly, "the father of the Birmingham Library System."
Donnelly moved to Birmingham from his native Cincinnati, Ohio after retiring from Proctor and Gamble. A much respected manufact…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQU_eddie-james-kendrick_Birmingham-AL.html
Eddie James Kendrick, nicknamed "cornbread", was born the eldest of five children to Johnny and Lee Bell Kendrick in Union Springs, Alabama.
After attending Western-Olin High School in Ensley, Alabama, Eddie was persuaded by his childhood frien…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQT_brock-drugs-building_Birmingham-AL.html
The Brock building was established in 1915, located at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and 18th Street North, was built while the area was residential. The three-story building housed a hotel upstairs that catered to professional musicians and a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQR_arthur-d-shores_Birmingham-AL.html
During the first 30 years of his 54-year-old practice, Attorney Shores practiced all over the State of Alabama - from the Tennessee line to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile Bay, and from the Mississippi borders to the Georgia limits. During the period…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQC_fourth-avenue-historic-district_Birmingham-AL.html
Marker front:Prior to 1900 a "black business district" did not exist in Birmingham. In a pattern characteristic of Southern cities found during Reconstruction, black businesses developed alongside those of whites in many sections of the downtown a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQA_north-birmingham_Birmingham-AL.html
On October 1, 1886, the North Birmingham Land Company was formed to develop a planned industrial and residential town on 900 acres of land, formerly part of the Alfred Nathaniel Hawkins plantation north of Village Creek. The plan included sites fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ9_civil-rights-freedom-riders_Birmingham-AL.html
On Mother's Day, May 14, 1961, a group of black and white CORE youth on a "Freedom Ride" from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans arrived by bus at the Birmingham Greyhound terminal. They were riding through the deep south to test a court case, "Boynt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ8_oldest-house-in-shades-valley-irondale-furnace-commissary_Birmingham-AL.html
The original log structure was built c. 1820 - 1830, with the board and batten addition dating to as late as the 1860s. The log cabin was at first one and one-half stories and is believed to be the oldest structure in Shades Valley. Members of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHQ6_ruhama-baptist-church_Birmingham-AL.html
Constituted in 1819 by pioneer settlers in Territory of Alabama. Oldest Church in Birmingham Baptist Association.Elder Hosea Holcombe served as first pastor.First meeting house was log cabin.Present building is on fourth site.