Cows Only Have Teeth in the Bottom of Their Mouths
Submitted by @ScootBenet
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Vestavia Hills Baptist Church
Vestavia Hills Baptist Church Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, constituted May 6, 1957, first met at Vestavia Hills City Hall. The church purchased the George Ward estate in 1958. On the...
- birmingham
- alabama
Battleground
Named after a Civil War battle fought April 30, 1863, between Confederate troops commanded by General Nathan Bradford Forrest and Union troops commanded by Colonel Abel D. Streight. Confederates...
- birmingham
- alabama
The "Katy-Did" Crash
Eight U.S. Army Air Corps officers and enlisted men were killed one-fourth mile east of here near the Roundtop Community on Sunday, April 9, 1944, at 2:20 p.m. when their B-26C Martin...
- birmingham
- alabama
LaGrange College
This is the site of LaGrange College Chartered in 1830 by act of the Legislature of Alabama An Institution of High Order for men attending chiefly by students from the southern states. The...
- birmingham
- alabama
Red Mountain Iron Ore
TOP OF SEAM THIS RED MOUNTAIN IRON ORE IS BASIS OF BIRMINGHAM'S IRON-STEEL INDUSTRY Submitted by @LostToHistory
- birmingham
- alabama
- iron
- steel
- red mountain
- ore
Lover's Leap
LOVER'S LEAP 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...
- birmingham
- alabama
- farrar
- masons
- schwab
- 1827
Delivered to General George Washington
AT THIS PLACE GENERAL HENRY KNOX DELIVERED TO GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON IN JANUARY 1776 THE TRAIN OF ARTILLERY BROUGHT FROM FORT TICONDEROGA TO FORCE THE ENEMY TO EVACUATE BOSTON ERECTED BY THE...
- knox
- washington
- fort ticonderoga
- artillery train
- train of artillery
- revolution
- cambridge
- massachusetts
Bluff Park Elementary School / Hoover Community Education
Summit/Hale Sps., a one-room school, opened on the mountain in 1898. It moved to this site and was named Bluff Park Elementary School with 50 students and funded with community support in 1923....
- birmingham
- alabama
- hoover
- bluff park
- school
- community support
National Pony Express Centennial
A plaque commemorating the short-lived Pony Express national mail delivery service. NATIONAL PONY EXPRESS CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION 1860-61 - 1960 SACRAMENTO -- ST. JOSEPH RUSSELL ...
- gothenberg
- nebraska
- pony
- express
- park
- pony express
Overseer's House
OVERSEER'S HOUSE Built in 1889 This house was provided for the overseer of the 560-acre A. B. Howell Peach Orchard. William Morgan and William and Evan Hale were over-seers. The house has...
- birmingham
- alabama
- overseer
- 1889
The Park Avenue Historical District
51 Structures, 70% residential, built early 20th century to post World War II period. The 1885 sale of Gardner Hale’s land began the housing development. The 33 acre 1924 Independent Presbyterian...
- birmingham
- alabama
- wwii
- 1924
- children's f...
Rosedale
ROSEDALE Benjamin F. Roden formed the Clifton Land Company in 1886 to develop this area. The development was reorganized in 1889 as the South Birmingham Land Company. Theodore Smith, nurseryman...
- birmingham
- alabama
- rosedale
- florist
- bedford
- edgewood
- homewood
Shades Crest Road Historical District
Indian, Wagon Trail, now Shades Crest Road, led to popular chalybeate springs. Summit, now Bluff Park, was a resort known for its view, cool air and healing mineral water. In 1899 school /...
- birmingham
- alabama
- shades cresh
- lost to fire
- healing mine...
Edgewood Lake
EDGEWOOD LAKE (DRAINED 1940's)BIRMINGHAM MOTOR & COUNTRY CLUB / EDGEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB (Demolished 1930's) The developers of the Town of Edgewood, Stephen Smith and Troupe Brazelton, built...
- birmingham
- alabama
- lake
- country club
- apostrophe
Samford University
Multiple purpose Christian university founded 1841 as Howard College by Alabama Baptists at Marion. Moved to East Lake, Birmingham, 1887. Established on this campus 1957. Acquired Cumberland...
- birmingham
- alabama
- samford
- howard
Clintonville Academy
CLINTONVILLE ACADEMYJANUARY 11, 1860 Chartered as Clintonville Male and Female Academy by Alabama Legislature January 11, 1860. Building constructed 1860, occupied 1861. The first school in...
- clintonville
- alabama
- school
- coffee county
Liberty Bowl Bell
Donated to The City Of Memphis by William and Dixie Wolbrecht Submitted from the Shelby County Register's Office.
- shelby county
- tennessee
There Was a Cannery Here
There was a cannery here before the aquarium The Monterey Bay Aquarium stands on the site of the old Hovden Cannery. In its heyday, the cannery processed tons of sardines every day. But by the...
- monterey
- california
- cannery
- aquarium
- sardines
- hovden
Colton Hall Completed
1849 COLTON HALL COMPLETED Walter Colton, Alcalde of Monterey, completes the construction of Colton Hall with the aid of taxes on rum, fines for gambling, and the labor of jailed...
- monterey
- california
- 1849
- colton
- rum
- gambling