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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ94_cdr-snuffy-smith_Birmingham-AL.html
(First Plaque):Navy pilots typically had their names painted on the side and just below the cockpit of one of the squadron aircraft. Most also had "Call Signs." Some of which because the nickname of the pilot. On the display aircraft this traditio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ83_briarwood-presbyterian-church-pca_Vestavia-Hills-AL.html
The Presbyterian Church U.S. began an effort in May 1960 to organize a new Presbyterian Church in the Cahaba Heights area. Rev. Frank M. Barker, Jr. was asked to begin the process and began contacting prospective members in a door to door campaign…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ7X_hoover_Hoover-AL.html
The City of Hoover was founded in 1967 by William H. Hoover and consisted of four city blocks and only 410 citizens. Hoover grew rapidly in the following 43 years to more than 75,000 residents within 50 square miles, making it the sixth largest ci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ6F_canterbury-united-methodist-church_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
Canterbury is the oldest existing establishment in Mountain Brook. It was organized in 1867 as Irondale Methodist when enough settlers to support the church moved into the area around the Irondale Furnace. The first time the North Alabama Conferen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYJG_the-early-mountain-brook-village-area_Mountain-Brook-AL.html
Once an Indian hunting ground, this land was opened for settlement after the War of 1812. The first settlers, who fought in that war under Andrew Jackson, came here in the early 1820's after the U.S. acquired the land in the Creek Cession of 181. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYIO_homewood_Homewood-AL.html
Beginning in the mid 19th century settlers first emigrated into a vast wooded wilderness now known as Homewood.
On February 11, 1927, the merger of Edgewood, Grove Park and Rosedale became the new City of Homewood. On October 14, 1929 Hollywoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAI_black-creek-park-five-mile-creek-greenway-partnership-and-the-fultondale-coke-oven-park_Birmingham-AL.html
Black Creek Park, part of the Five Mile Creek Greenway Partnership, encompasses the Fultondale Coke Oven Park development. The Fultondale Coke Oven Park preserves the environment and history of the old mining communities of north Birmingham, inclu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY0K_rev-fred-shuttleworth-bethel-baptist-church_Birmingham-AL.html
Rev. Fred Shuttleworth's tenure as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church (1953-1961) was marked by demonstrations, bombings and passionate sermons critical of segregation laws. His activism earned him a house bombing, frequent beatings, arrests, and thr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXAU_leeds-benchmarks-in-history_Leeds-AL.html
Front:The War of 1812, geography, geology, and three cultures shaped the history of Leeds. Lying at the crossroads of ancient Indian paths in the center of Alabama, Leeds drew Europeans, Cherokee, and African-American settlers to a land of fertile…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXAT_shiloh-cemetery_Leeds-AL.html
Shiloh Cemetery is the first recorded Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery in middle Alabama. Burial at Shiloh began in 1820, a year before the Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church organized in 1821 at Oakridge, now Leeds. The cemetery stood back fro…