National Historic Landmark- MONTGOMERY (Snagboat)

The steam-propelled sternwheel snagboat MONTGOMERY (1925) is one of a handful of surviving steam-powered sternwheelers in the country and is one of only two surviving Corps of Engineers snagboats.

Snagboats cleared the western rivers of countless obstructions and allowed the ...

National Historic Landmark- Kenworthy Hall

Kenworthy Hall (built 1858-1861) ranks as among the most intact surviving examples of architect Richard Upjohn’s distinctive asymmetrical Italian Villa style.

Internationally known for his church architecture, and represented by nine existing National Historic Landmarks, Upjohn became one of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Ivy Green (Helen Keller Birthplace)

This ten acre site is associated with Helen Keller (1880-1968), author and lecturer. The property includes the cottage where Keller was born and the house where she spent her early childhood (1880-1888), and the water pump, site of the communication ...

National Historic Landmark- Government St. Presbyterian Church

Completed in 1836, Government Street Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest and least-altered Greek Revival style houses of worship remaining in the United States.

The building also illustrates one of the earliest estant religious usages in America of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Gaineswood Plantation

Begun in 1842 and modified in stages over eighteen years (1843-1861), Gaineswood is one of America's most unusual neoclassical Greek Revival-style mansions.

Amateur architect and cotton planter Nathan Bryan Whitfield refined his mansion with the help of skilled African-American craftsmen ...

National Historic Landmark- Foster Auditorium

The University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium is nationally significant for its association with the historical movement to desegregate public higher education, and the federal government's efforts to eliminate racial segregation in the United States.

As the site of 1963 "stand in ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Toulouse

The easternmost outpost of French Louisiana Territory, Fort Toulouse (1717-1763) was situated strategically just below the southern tip of the Appalachian highland, at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers.

The fort protected French settlements downstream from Mobile Bay west ...

National Historic Landmark- Fort Morgan

Significant in Admiral Farragut's 1864 naval battle that opened Mobile Bay to the Union Navy and sealed off the port of Mobile to Confederate shipping.

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National Historic Landmark- Fort Mitchell Site

Consisting of the archeological remains of two early 19th century palisaded military forts (established 1813 and 1825); the Creek Trading House or Factory (1817-20); the Creek Indian Agency (1821-32); the Thomas Crowell Tavern (c. 1825); two hisotric cemeteries and the ...

National Historic Landmark- First Confederate Capitol

On February 4, 1861, delegates from six Southern States which had seceded from the Union met in Alabama's State Capitol; on February 8, the 37 delegates adopted a "Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America."

A day ...