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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJIE_sacred-tears_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Panel 1Tuscumbia and much of the Shoals area played an integral part in the "Trail of Tears" with the Tennessee River route and the overland routes. In 1825, the U.S. Government formally adopted a removal policy, which was carried out extensively …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJHU_yellow-fever-epidemic-1878-the-31-victims-of-yellow-fever-who-died-in-tuscumbia_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Side AYellow Fever Epidemic1878Taking 31 Lives in Tuscumbia
Citizen's Relief Committee:F.H. Aydlett, H.M. Finley, J.J. Davis, James Jackson, Chm. J.W. Rand Jr., F.A. Ross, J.N. Sampson, Sec. and C. A. Womble.
This committee, together with vo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJDZ_civil-war-skirmish-at-the-barton-cemetery_Cherokee-AL.html
Bullet - marked tombstones in this cemetery shows evidence of a brisk skirmish here Oct. 26, 1863, when Gen. P.J. Osterhaus's first division of Sherman's Corps came under fire from Gen. S.D. Lee's Confederate troops. CSA artillery on a hill near a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJDC_ivy-green_Tuscumbia-AL.html
The Family Home of Captain Arthur M. & Kate Adams Keller was build 1820, being the second house erected in Tuscumbia.Here on June 27, 1880 was born America's First Lady of CourageHelen Adams Keller
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ11_howell-thomas-heflin_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Howell Thomas Heflin retired from a lifetime of distinguished public service in 1997, having served Alabama in the U.S. Senate for three consecutive terms. There he was known as a national leader on judicial, agricultural, defense, and space issue…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ10_american-indian-history_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Side 1Oka Kapassa (Ococoposa), meaning "Cold Water", was the Chickasaw name given to Spring Creek and to a trading post established near the Tennessee River about 1780. About 1817, Michael Dickerson and others were greeted at what by then was call…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0Z_colbert-county-courthouse-square-district_Tuscumbia-AL.html
22 structures, first Northwest Alabama historic district placed on National Register of Historic Places (1973): Courthouse, erected 1881, shows Italianate and Greek Revival influences. Fifth Street, Commercial Row, seven adjoining brick structures…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0X_jacksons-military-road_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Side 1After the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, General Andrew Jackson proposed this road as a shorter and improved route for military movements between Nashville and New Orleans. The U.S. War Department authorized Jackson to appoint an engineer an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0W_tuscumbia-big-spring_Tuscumbia-AL.html
Tuscumbia Big SpringBig Spring (average daily flow 35,000,000 gallons) provided water for town founded on its banks. Michael Dickson of Tennessee was first settler (about 1817). Town laid out in 1819 and incorporated as Ococoposo (Cold Water, 1820…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0V_howell-graves-school_Muscle-Shoals-AL.html
Marker Front:Muscle Shoals City was incorporated on April 24, 1923. Among the leading developers were New York realtors A.L. Howell and C.T. Graves. Their interest in Muscle Shoals was inspired by the vision of Henry Ford to use power from Wilson …