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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZN_emory-overton-jackson_Birmingham-AL.html
Emory Overton Jackson was born on September 8, 1908 in Buena Vista, Georgia to Will Burt and Lovie Jones Jackson. E. O. Jackson and his seven siblings were raised in the middle-class Birmingham enclave of Enon Ridge, located on the west side of to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP81_rickwood-field_Birmingham-AL.html
Built by Birmingham industrialist A. H. "Rick" Woodward, Rickwood Field served as home to the Birmingham Barons and Birmingham Black Barons for most of the 20th century. Recognized as "America's Oldest Baseball Park," Rickwood Field is now home to…
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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/HMEW7_rickwood-field_Birmingham-AL.html
Built by local industrialist A. H. "Rick" Woodward, this park opened on August 18, 1910. It is the oldest surviving baseball park in America. Rickwood served as the home park for both the Birmingham Barons (until 1987) and the Birmingham Black Bar…
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