The Dude Fire

On June 25, 1990 a lightning caused fire entrapped ten members of the Perryville fire crew in this canyon. Resulting in six fatalities. Before the fire was contained it had burned more than 24,000 acres and destroyed over 70 structures.

This ...

Decatur and The Civil War in North Alabama

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Decatur had close to 800 residents in 1860, not many more than the 606 persons counted in the 1850 census. Included in the 1860 census were 267 white males, 206 white females, three free blacks including ...

Glidden State Bank

Glidden State Bank

Circa 1905

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Nominated by

Jerry Hellenbrand - 2006

Marker is on East First Street (County Highway N) east of North Grant Street, on the left when traveling east. ...

Garrard's & Lightburn's to Stone Mountain

The principal object of the wide swing of Federal forces S.E. from Roswell, where they crossed the Chattahoochee, was to cut the Ga. R.R. at & near Stone Mountain, thereby isolating Atlanta from the east.

Pursuant to plan, Logan’s 15th ...

Trail to Standing Peachtree and Houston Chapel

This ancient trail led west to the Indian village of Standing Peachtree. It joined the Shallowford Trail near this spot linking it with trade routes to Stone Mountain. Later becoming a road it was among the first authorized when DeKalb ...

Hood’s Middle Tennessee Campaign and The Battle for Decatur

“A Hard Nut To Crack”

Following the fall of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood, Commander of the Army of Tennessee, began a series of maneuvers against the Union line of supply running from Atlanta through Northwest ...

Site: Judge James Paden House: Gen. J.D. Cox’s H’dq’rs

The Federal 23d A.C., Army of the Ohio, reached this vicinity via Old Shallow Ford Rd. (Clairmont) & N. Decatur Rd., evening of July 19, 1864. This was the N.E. sector of Sherman’s approach to Atlanta. Cox’s (3d) div. bivouacked ...

Printz's (Old Swedes) Mill

The first European water-powered mill in what is now Pa. was built here c. 1645 by New Sweden governor, Johann Printz. New Sweden Colony was established in 1638 and existed until 1655, when the Dutch, and later, William Penn claimed ...

Presbyterian Home For Children

Synod Of Alabama

Originally conceived 1864 as a home for children of Confederate dead by Synod in session at Selma.

Opened at Tuskegee 1868 - relocated in Talladega 1891.

A haven for dependent youth of Alabama providing training, education, and worship in a ...

Battle Of Talladega

Nov. 9, 1813

Here Andrew Jackson led Tennessee Volunteers and friendly Indians to victory over hostile “Red Sticks.”

This action rescued friendly Creeks besieged in Fort Leslie.

Creek Indian War 1813 - 1814.

Marker is at the intersection of East Battle Street and Court ...