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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CNK_knox-hall_Montgomery-AL.html
Designed by Stephen Decatur Button, Knox Hall built in the 1840's by William Knox, a native of Ireland who settled in Montgomery in 1830's. Knox founded Central Bank of Montgomery which made first loans to Confederate government.
House incorpor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CNJ_teague-house_Montgomery-AL.html
On April 11, 1865, federal troops, known as "Wilson's Raiders," approached the city. Lacking means of defense, city officials agreed to surrender the city.
From the front portico of this house was read the order of Gen. James H. Wilson, USA, pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CNI_lomax-house-1848_Montgomery-AL.html
Built by James J. Gilmer. Purchased by Reuben C. Shorter, 1819, for his wife, Caroline A.V. Billingslea, who later married Tennent Lomax, captain and governor of Orizaba, Mexican War colonel, 3rd Ala. Infantry Regt., CSA, killed at Battle of Seven…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CNC_confederate-states-of-america-csa-post-office-department_Montgomery-AL.html
In February, 1861, delegates from six of the seven seceding southern states met in Montgomery to establish the government of the CSA. Newly elected President Jefferson Davis named J.H. Reagan of Texas as Postmaster General. Reagan established the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CN8_centennial-hill_Montgomery-AL.html
This neighborhood evolved around historic First Congregational Church established through the American Missionary Association (AMA) October 6, 1872, by Pastor George Whitfield Andrews. In 1867 the AMA and the Freedmen's Bureau, headed by General W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CN6_the-jackson-community-house-the-montgomery-city-federation-of-womens-clubs_Montgomery-AL.html
(side 1)The Jackson-Community House
In 1853, Jefferson Franklin Jackson, a native Alabamian and U.S. Attorney for the Alabama Middle District, built this two-story clapboard home originally with a dogtrot pattern. A Whig Party member, by 1862, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CMX_montgomerys-slave-depots-montgomerys-slave-traders_Montgomery-AL.html
(side 1)Montgomery's Slave Depots
Montgomery slave traders operated depots where enslaved men, women, and children were confined. The slave depots functioned as active trading sites and as detention facilities where the enslaved were held capti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CMW_house-of-the-mayors_Montgomery-AL.html
Built in the 1850's for Jack Thorington, mayor of Montgomery from 1838-39, this House has also been the home of Mordecai Moses, mayor in the late 1870's, and Joseph Norwood who had been mayor of Fort Deposit before coming to Montgomery. Moses owne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAK_marquis-de-lafayette_Montgomery-AL.html
On this site stood, until December 1899, the house in which Marquis de Lafayette was given a public reception and ball, April 4, 1825, while on his last tour through the United States.
This tablet is placed by the Society of the Sons of the Rev…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAA_the-montgomery-slave-trade-warehouses-used-in-the-slave-trade_Montgomery-AL.html
Side 1The Montgomery Slave TradeMontgomery had grown into one of the most prominent slave trading communities in Alabama by 1860. At the start of the Civil War, the city had a larger slave population than Mobile, New Orleans, or Natchez, Mississip…