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 / church was built. In 1909 Bluff

Park ...

Pine Apple Historic District

Pine Apple, Alabama

Founded in 1825, the town of Pine Apple became a regional commercial center due to its strategic location as the end of the Selma to Pensacola Railroad line from 1871 to the 1890s. The progressive spirit of Pine ...

Walnut Street Historic District

Walnut Street began as a residential area in the national economic boom of the 1880s and 1890s and continued its development through the 1920s. Industries and businesses grew in Florence, the population of the city increased, and business and professional ...

Cherry Street Historic District

(early 20th Century)

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, this district contains 52 structures, most of which were built after 1900. Cherry Street was laid out in 1818 near the east boundary of Florence. Pulitzer Prize winner ...

Providence Historical District

The town of Providence was born, thrived and died with the Miami & Erie Canal. It was platted in 1835 by French trader Peter Manor, swept by fire in 1846, ravaged by cholera in 1854, and finally unincorporated in 1928. ...

St. Joseph's Historic District

Railroad Workers' Neighborhood

Much of downtown Bowling Green west of Louisville & Nashville tracks owes its development to the railroad and to nearby industries. Most railroad workers stayed in downtown hotels prior to the mid-1880s when smaller and cheaper fame housing ...

Darlington District Agricultural Society / The Mineral Spring

Darlington District Agricultural Society

On May 5, 1846, a society was organized for "mutual improvement in agriculture and to promote the planting interest of the country." Most of the annual meetings since that time have been held at this spring. ...

Ralston District of Mendham

circa 1742

Logan's grist mill supplied food to Washington's troops during Jockey Hollow encampment. John Ralston, early industrialist, occupied the manor house 1786-1819, and operated the general store, subsequently a post office 1892-1941.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 24 and ...

The Demopolis Theater District

Side A

Establishing a history of theaters in this district, the Braswell Theater introduced its ornate interior to

Demopolis on October 23, 1902, with a performance of

the melodrama Unorna. Built by Frederick Henry Braswell in galleries above his hardware store on Strawberry ...

Hampton Heights Historic District

Located one block west, this historic district was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 because of its historical and architectural significance as an example of an intact early twentieth-century neighborhood. A number of popular architectural styles ...