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In 1918, Henry G. Clift High School opened on the site of the old Opelika High School on the corner of North Eighth Street and Seventh Avenue. Opelika’s city council moved to name the new high school after the town’s mayor. Contractor W.J. Padgett…

Henry Ford, in 1921, wanted to buy the unfinished Wilson Dam and two nitrate plants in Muscle Shoals. The United States government was willing to sell both to a private company with the intention of producing nitrate fertilizer.
Ford's dream was to…

Henry Clay Armstrong was a student at the East Alabama Male College prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. After becoming a lawyer, he enlisted and became a captain in the Confederate Army where he served until the end of the war. During…

To reach this cemetery, from Florence, Alabama, travel west on Alabama Hwy. 20 14.6 miles. Turn right onto County Road 5 and travel 1.8 miles. Turn left onto County Road 8. Go about 1/2 mile. This cemetery is on the right side of the road west of the…

This popular festival pays tribute to America’s “First Lady of Courage” with four days of activities: parade, fine art & craft show, art exhibits, Keller Kids, staged musical entertainment, history programs and tours, two performances of “The Miracle…

The Helen Keller Birthplace, known as Ivy Green is the original home and grounds of Helen Keller's family. The home was built in 1820. It is a modest, white clapboard, Southern style home of Virginia cottage construction. There are four large rooms…

This article appeared in The Charlotte Observer on April 2, 1967. The article includes an interview with wrestling promoter Jim Crockett.

"My mom had already told us that we couldn't march that Sunday. When she wasnt looking my oldest brother (Profit Barlow a12th grader at R. B. Hudson High School) had slipped out of the house. So she decided that it was best if she stayed home and…

Harvey Robbins who founded National Floor Products in Florence with his father, Stanley Robbins, in 1957, is credited with restoring downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Born in Dayton, Ohio, he and his family moved to the Shoals while he was still…

The Harvey Cemetery, located in Toonersville, Alabama (which is near the Whitehead Community and the town of Rogersville) is located off of the Bettie Anne Highway (aka Highway 51). Go north on Highway 51 for approximately three miles; at the…

Hartselle holds a week of activities that celebrates their railroad community, est. 1870. The festival begins on the 3rd Saturday in September. The events include the Miss Depot Days pageant, 5k run, antique tractor and engine show, and an…

Limestone County, Alabama; Tanner, Alabama; Harris-Pryor House; Antebellum Trail;

To reach Harmon Cemetery from Florence, travel east on US 72 to Elgin. Then head north on AL 101 to Lexington. Take a right on County Road 51 and then left on County Road 88. The cemetery is down a mile on the left side of the road.

A full list of…

This historic marker is located at River Heritage Park with the Walk of Honor.

Text on the marker reads: "The NFL Rookie of the Year (1954) and MVP (1955), Harlon Hill starred with the Chicago Bears. The Harlon Hill Trophy is presented annually to…

The most contested ground in the Lauderdale County during the Civil War was most probably the area known as Happy Hollow. This engagement occurred in and around the area that Jackson’s Military Road crossed Shoal Creek in the area then known as…

Hank Klibanoff, the former managing editor of the Atlanta-Constitution and the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism, was born in Florence, Alabama. Klibanoff, who co-wrote The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of…

This is a department store built circa 1905. It was remodeled in 1965 with aluminum display windows and corrugated metal on the facade. It is built in the Folk Victorian style. It has a flat stepped roof. It has a brick foundation.

The building…

The Halliday-Cary-Pick House was built by James Kidd in 1848. The home was owned by three prominent residents of Auburn. Dickinson Halliday was a planter who had moved to the town from Georgia. During the Civil War, the home was used as a hospital…

The largest building on Auburn University’s campus, the Haley Center is capable of accommodating 8,000 students at any given moment. The labyrinthine, 357,000-square-foot structure includes four quadrants centered around a central ten-story tower, a…

On April 27, 2011 the community of Hackleburg, Alabama was hit by a EF-5 tornado. Eighteen members of the community lost their lives. The downtown's major businesses, resturants, police and fire departments, and town hall were destroyed. The Wrangler…

Gypsies near Red Bay would set up camp near the edge of the town or in rural areas near farm houses. They traveled by covered wagon and could be heard for miles with the clinking of their cookware and barking dogs. When the Gypsies set up camp, they…

Gunwaleford Road earned its name because of a Confederate gunboat becoming lodged in between sand bars on Cypress Creek. After the fall of Fort Henry at the mouth of the Tennessee River, Union gunboats under the command of Commander Andrew H. Foote…

The Guntersville City Hall was built in 1965 in the Post War Modern style. The one-story building is constructed with brick and masonry. It has a gable on hipped shingle roof. The foundation of the building is not a visible feature. Overall, the…

In the community of Green Pond in Bibb County, a complex of 4.5 acres houses the Green Pond Presbyterian Church and Cemetery. The church dates back from 1884. Behind the church building is a cemetery dating from the time of the construction. Over 650…

Located Beauegard along Estate Drive.

Coordinates: 32.5731914, -85.4252251

Alabama Polytechnic Institute built the Graves Center – actually a complex of thirty cottages, an amphitheatre, a large dining hall, and a brass bust of New Deal era governor Bibb Graves – piecemeal throughout the 1930s. The complex of 30 Greek…

From Florence, turn off AL 20 (Savannah Highway) onto Waterloo Road. Go 12.5 miles and bear right on a gravel road. Go 0.1 mile to the cemetery. The cemetery is located behind Gravelly springs Missionary Baptist Church.

Gravelly Springs Cemetery…

This historic marker is located at the intersection of Alabama Route 64 and County Road 89, Lexington, Alabama.

The text on the marker reads: "Established in 1894 as New Salem Presbyterian Church. Originally affiliated with the Cumberland…

To reach Grassy Cemetery from Florence, head east on US 72 to Elgin. Then head north on AL 101 towards Lexington. Turn east on AL 64. The cemetery will be on the left side of the road near the Grassy Memorial Chapel.

A full list of records can be…

Robert Miller Patton was one of five Lauderdale County residents to serve as governor of Alabama. Patton was born in Virginia in 1809. He and his parents came to Alabama in 1818 and he took up residence in Florence in 1829. In 1832, he became a…

This historic marker is located on N. Cox Creek Parkway, near 698 N Cox Creek Parkway, Florence, AL.

The text on the marker reads: "McVay (1766-1851), South Carolina native, built a three room log house at head of Cox's Creek about 1818. Community…

The son of Edward A. O’Neal, Emmet O’Neal was the thirty-sixth governor of Alabama and a resident of Lauderdale County. He served as governor from 1911-1915. Emmet O’Neal was born on September 6, 1853, in Florence, Alabama. After graduating from…

Along with thirty-five members, Reverend Felix Johnson organized Goodsprings Cumberland Presbyterian in Rogersville, Alabama, on September 18, 1839. During its history the church’s congregation has had to deal with two historical events—the Civil War…

The Goode-Hall House is located in Town Creek Alabama. After several tours of Lawrence County, the home is constructed in 1824 by Reverend Turner Saunders. Saunders had been a Methodist minister and planter from Brunswick County, Virginia. Saunders…

Located in northwestern Lee County, the Gold Hill community coalesced during the mid-1830s. Originally located in Chambers County, the settlement fell within Lee County’s boundaries after its 1866 inception. Resident Nathaniel Robertson donated land…

Located in Loachapoka along Ensminger Road

To reach Glendale Cemetery from Muscle Shoals, head south on Wilson Dam Road, then turn right onto Old Highway 20 and drive for about 3 miles. The cemetery is on the left, just past Gnat Pond Road.

This historic marker is located on Gilbert Circle, Florence, Alabama.

The text on the marker reads: "Gilbert School, named in honor of Henry C Gilbert, school superintendent 1892-1904 and long time member of Board of Education was built in 1920,…

George Washington Foster was born on November 28, 1806, in Nashville, Tennessee. On January 10, 1829, he married Sarah Independence Watkins. They had seven children: Mary Ann, Virginia (Jennie), Watkins (Wat), Louisa (Lou), George Washington Jr.…