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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11PJ_fifth-avenue-school_Huntsville-AL.html
Opened in 1944, the Fifth Avenue School became the focal point for major educational change on September 9, 1963, when Sonnie Hereford IV became the first African-American student to integrate public schools in Alabama. Following a lengthy court b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11MH_civilian-conservation-corps-c-c-c-camp-1935-1940_Huntsville-AL.html
This rock entrance is all that remains of Camp Ala. SP-16, 3486 and Camp Ala. TVA-7, 3483 which were built here due to available water. They were part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's conservation projects. When WW II started the men enlisted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10PD_c-b-bill-miller-bridge_Huntsville-AL.html
C.B. "Bill" Miller, of Miller and Miller, Inc., had a positive impact in all areas of the transportation industry across the State of Alabama. He has erected bridges, railroads, parks, pedestrian walks, airports, drainage, wastewater facilities, b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTYJ_five-points-historic-district_Huntsville-AL.html
Part of the 1892 East Huntsville Addition created by local businessmen to revitalize Huntsville and attract industry in the post-Reconstruction period. Many streets recall those individuals - Pratt, Wellman, Ward, and Wells. Huntsville's first sub…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZZ_saint-marys-church-of-the-visitation_Huntsville-AL.html
Missionaries served Catholics in Huntsville until 1861, when Father Jeremiah F. Trecy was sent by Bishop John Quinlan to organize this parish. Cornerstone for the building was laid in October 1861. Due to the Civil War the church was not completed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWJ_original-site-of-lakeside-united-methodist-church_Huntsville-AL.html
Marker Front:The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased this property in 1866, and the congregation erected a frame building with a brick basement in 1867. The Rev. Howell Echols was the first pastor. In 1886, a brick build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQMR_original-site-of-alabama-agricultural-and-mechanical-university_Huntsville-AL.html
(Front) Original site of Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (now located at Normal, Alabama) Legislature approved 9 December 1873 "a normal school for the education of colored teachers" in Huntsville. Ex-slave William Hooper Council…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQL1_lincoln-school-and-village_Huntsville-AL.html
In 1918 William Lincoln Barrell of Lowell MA. purchased Abingdon Mill and transformed it into a large textile center of all concrete construction named Lincoln Mill Village. Phillip Peeler served as its superintendent from 1934-1953. Built in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPD3_the-public-inn_Huntsville-AL.html
Constructed circa 1818 by John Adams at the NE corner of Madison St. and Williams Ave. Operated as an inn and boarding house by William E. Phillips from 1819-21; believed to have housed some delegates to the nearby Alabama Constitutional Conventio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPD2_helion-lodge-no-1_Huntsville-AL.html
First Masonic Lodge in Alabama. Chartered Aug. 29, 1811, under the Masonic Jurisdiction of Kentucky. Original building on this site erected in 1820.
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