view gallery SE13.4 km | Childers Chapel - Valley Grande, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Historic rural cemetery along County Road 37, north of Selma, includes many older grave markers. Access is difficult as the gates have chains and locks. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 02/17/2015 last visited: never |
view gallery S14.8 km | Prosperity Cemetery - near Marion Junction, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Older cemetery, in rural Dallas County on CR189 west of CR45 about 5 miles south of Marion Junction. Has some Confederate graves. Former church location. The marker has gone missing. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 01/06/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery NW15.8 km | Southern Railway Depot - Marion, Alabama in Train Stations/Depots No longer being used as a train depot, the building has found a new life supporting local commerce in a different way. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/11/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery SE15.9 km | Valley Creek Cemetery -- Valley Grande, AL in Worldwide Cemeteries Peaceful Valley Creek Cemetery in the rural community of Valley Grande, northwest of Selma AL posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Alabama date approved: 03/08/2019 last visited: 01/14/2019 |
view gallery NW16.3 km | Marion Military Institute - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Provides the history of the beginnings of the Marion Military Institute. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery SE16.3 km | Valley Creek Presbyterian Church -- Valley Grande AL in Presbyterian Churches A simple unadorned church building built with slave made bricks and slave labor stands in the rural community of Valley Grande, northwest of Selma posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Alabama date approved: 03/06/2019 last visited: 01/14/2019 |
view gallery NW16.4 km | The Alabama Baptist - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers History of the building used for the newspaper, "The Alabama Baptist" in Marion, AL. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery SE16.6 km | Chalmers Attacks - Valley Grande, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Located near Keenan's Mill on Lapsley Street the marker describes Union Gen. Wilson's advance into Alabama to destroy the arms depots in Selma near the end of the Civil War. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 05/31/2023 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.6 km | Judson College - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Marker describes the history of one of the first women's college. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.7 km | Siloam Baptist Church - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Located at 505 Washington Street, this church is considered by Baptists in the state as one of the most important mother churches of many Alabama Baptist institutions and churches. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.9 km | Jimmie Lee Jackson, Voting Rights Martyr - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Marker describes the death of a civil rights worker that led to the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama. Marker is at the corner of Pickens and Jefferson Streets. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 05/20/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.9 km | Jackson's Death Led to 'Bloody Sunday' March - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Marker located at corner of Pickens and Jefferson Streets, notes the death of a civil rights worker which led to the Bloody Sunday March in Selma, Alabama across the Edmund Pettus bridge. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 05/20/2018 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.9 km | Perry County Courthouse - Marion, AL in Courthouses This courthouse has impressive looking Greek Revival Temple architecture on both sides of the building. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.9 km | Nicola Marschall - Marion, AL in Citizen Memorials Granite stone with bronze plaque, in Marion, commemorating Nicola Marschall, a German-American artist who supported the Confederate cause. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/13/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.9 km | Perry County Veterans Memorial - Marion, AL in Non-Specific Veteran Memorials A nice monument memorial to all veterans in Marion, Alabama. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/12/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW16.9 km | Muckle's Ridge - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers The city of Marion was first known as Muckle Ridge because Michael McElroy, also known as Michael Muckle, cleared one acre of land and built a cabin in the area in 1817. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW17.1 km | Confederate Rest - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Part of the St. Wilfrid's Cemetery in Marion includes these some 500 Confederate graves. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW17.2 km | Lincoln Normal School - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Nine of the most successful black lawyers in the nation founded the Lincoln Normal School in 1867. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW17.2 km | St. Wilfrid's Episcopal Cemetery - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Historic cemetery in Marion, AL that also includes over 500 Confederate dead. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW17.2 km | The Marion Female Seminary - Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Historic Women's college on Monroe Street, now the county Historical Society. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery NW17.2 km | First Congregational Church of Marion, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Organized and constructed in 1871 by freed slaves and the American Missionary Association, the Congregationalist Church is the oldest and most unaltered of the churches built by African-Americans in Marion. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 11/09/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery SE18.2 km | Union Troops Charge - Selma, AL in Alabama Historical Markers Notes the major actions at nearby fortifications in Selma during the Battle of Selma at the end of the Civil War. Marker is at the intersection of Summerfield Road and Highland Avenue. posted by: hoteltwo location: Alabama date approved: 04/07/2015 last visited: 04/30/2018 |
view gallery SE18.2 km | Valley Creek Presbyterian Church - Selma, AL in Alabama Historical Markers The marker is located on Citizens Parkway (Alabama Hwy 22), at the intersection with County Road 65, north of Selma, Alabama. It tells the history of Valley Creek Presbyterian Church. posted by: xptwo location: Alabama date approved: 06/01/2013 last visited: 01/14/2019 |
view gallery SE18.3 km | British West Florida - Selma, AL in Alabama Historical Markers This marker notes the north boundary line for the British colony of West Florida during its existence from 1764 to 1783. posted by: xptwo location: Alabama date approved: 04/15/2013 last visited: never |
view gallery SE18.3 km | British West Florida - Selma, Alabama in UK Historical Markers This marker notes the north boundary line for the British colony of West Florida during its existence from 1764 to 1783. posted by: xptwo location: Alabama date approved: 03/11/2013 last visited: never |
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