Historic Sites in Birmingham, AL

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A National Historic Landmark, Sloss Furnaces offers an ideal urban stroll through a spectacular example of Birmingh...

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Built by local industrialist A. H. "Rick" Woodward, this park opened on August 18, 1910. It is the oldest surviving...

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This house was provided for the overseer of the 560-acre A. B. Howell Peach Orchard. William Morgan and William and E...

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(Front):Osmond Kelly Ingram 1887-1917 First American sailor killed in action in World War 1, aboard U.S.S. "Cassin"...

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The giant, cast iron statue you see towering above you is Vulcan, the Roman god of metalwork and the forge. The 56-fo...

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Pearl Harbor May 31, 1941 Dear Friend, I hope all is well with you. I am doing...

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Marker front: Prior to 1900 a "black business district" did not exist in Birmingham. In a pattern characteristic of...

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To Be Opened March 1, 2022 Dedicated at the construction completion March 1, 2002 Project Team Owners - BLH Group, LL...

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The Fourth Avenue "Strip" thrived during a time when downtown privileges for blacks were limited. Although blacks...

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Rev. Fred Shuttleworth's tenure as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church (1953-1961) was marked by demonstrations, bombings...

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Side A When Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Nation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, the subsequent Treaty o...

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Front: A pipe foundry was established in 1912 by the following founders, A. H. Ford, F. M. Jackson, E. E. Linthicum, ...

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On March 3, 1899, the United States Pipe and Foundry Company was incorporated consolidating 14 iron and steel foundri...

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Birmingham’s first library was organized in 1886 and in 1891 became a subscription library for the general public. ...

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Vestavia Hills Baptist Church Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills Cit...

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