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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHGM_union-hill-cemetery-union-hill-methodist-episcopal-church-union-hill-school_Birmingham-AL.html
This cemetery is the final resting place of many of Shades Valley's pioneer residents. A few of the earliest headstones date from the mid-1850s. Descendants of these settlers helped mold the cities of Mountain Brook and Homewood. Located on proper…
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Union Hill Cemetery is the burial grounds of many pioneers and early settlers of the Shades Valley area. It was established in the 1870s. but includes gravestones dating back to the early 1850s due to the relocation of two earlier, smaller cemeter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH33_jefferson-county-courthouses_Birmingham-AL.html
Side ATerritorial legislature designated home of Maj. Moses Kelly (in Jones Valley) as site of first court in this area of Alabama, 1818.After creation of Jefferson County, 1819, court held at Carrollsville (Powderly) until county seat established…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH00_tuxedo-junction_Birmingham-AL.html
"Tuxedo Junction" was the street car crossing on the Ensley-Fairfield line at this corner in the Tuxedo Park residential area. It also refers to the fraternal dance hall operated in the 1920's and 1930s on the second floor of the adjacent building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5O_wilsons-raiders_Birmingham-AL.html
Gen. James H. Wilson, USA, having crossed the Tennessee River with a large force of well equipped cavalry, grouped them here at Elyton.Their mission: to destroy Alabama's economic facilities for supporting the War. From these headquarters he se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5H_belview-heights-neighborhood_Birmingham-AL.html
The Corey Land Company, a group of prominent local businessmen headed by Robert Jemison, Jr., developed Belview Heights as a neighborhood for the professional employees of U.S. Steel in the 1910's. Extending the grid system being used in Ensley ov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5F_walker-memorial-church_Birmingham-AL.html
In 1818 before Alabama, Jefferson County, Elyton or Birmingham existed, The Elyton Methodist Church was established on Center Street. It was moved to 14 Second Avenue, and in 1909, to its present site. Renamed in 1910 for Corilla Porter Walker (18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5E_disabled-american-veterans_Birmingham-AL.html
(Side 1)Disabled American Veterans Formed December 25, 1920.Birmingham Chapter No. 4 Chartered January 25, 1926.This Memorial Dedicated To Our Military Forces And To All Who Have Given Their Blood And Lives That The Republic Might Live Forever.How…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFJR_site-of-the-first-alabama-auburn-football-game_Birmingham-AL.html
The first Alabama - Auburn football game was played on this site, formerly known as the Base Ball Park, on February 22, 1893. The Agricultural and Mechanical College's "Orange and Blue" met the University of Alabama's "Tuskaloosa" squad before a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFJP_sloss-furnaces_Birmingham-AL.html
The crossing of railroads in 1872 adjacent to this site gave rise to the industrial city of Birmingham. In 1881 Alabama railroad magnate and entrepreneur James Withers Sloss, capitalizing on the unusual coincidence of coal, iron ore and limestone …
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