Lover's Leap - Hoover, AL
N 33° 24.706 W 086° 51.406
16S E 513317 N 3696946
Lover's Leap Historical Marker, Hoover, AL
Waymark Code: WMDDAR
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/28/2011
Views: 5
Historical marker noting an engraved stone at a local overlook on Shades Crest Road. The marker was placed by the Shades Crest Garden Club, Jefferson County, Birmingham, Alabama.
Rock inscription:
Tho. W Farrar
Seraphine F Farrar
To sit on rocks, to muse on flood and fell,
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,
Where things that own mot man's dominion dwell,
And mortal fool hath ne'er or rarely been.
August 20th
Marker Name: Lover's Leap
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
1827 1973
The poetic lines inscribed on the boulder below is a replica of those carved in 1827 by Thomas W. Farrar. Thomas W. Farrar was the founder and first Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Alabama 1821-22-24. This historical site donated to the public by Jonas W. Schwab in 1935. The work was done and fence provided by Thomas W. Martin and George B. Ward.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1973
Marker Number: None
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