A Visit to the National Voting Rights Museum
Located in County | What you’ll find: Historical | MuseumSelma is famous for its Selma March, commemorated every spring with a Jubilee Bridge Crossing. It also has the National Voting Rights Museum open all year around. The museum has recently moved to new headquarters from a historic building on Water Street.
Alabama Military Hall of Honor Museum
Located in Perry County | What you’ll find: Historical | MuseumThis building was built circa 1832 as a law office. It was the first YMCA building in the South to be owned by a local chapter. The building served as the Marion City Hall for forty years. In the late 1960s, it was moved from the courthouse square to …
Alabama River Museum
Located in Monroe County | What you’ll find: Historical | MuseumThe Alabama River Museum is part of the Monroe County Heritage Museums. It is located on the east bank of the Alabama River at the Claiborne Lock and Dam in Monroe County (GPS coordinates N31.615500,W87.548306). Travel back in time 60 million years ag …
Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame
Located in Perry County | What you’ll find: Historical | MuseumThe Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame honors the achievements of outstanding women from Alabama. Established in 1970, the first women were inducted the following year. The AWHOF became a state agency by an act of the Alabama legislature in 1975. The museum …
Ancient Africa, Enslavement, & Civil War Museum
Located in Dallas County | What you’ll find: Arts & Culture | Historical | MuseumThe Ancient Africa Enslavement & Civil War Museum was developed to educate & uplift schools, communities, and individuals of all ages by interpreting the history of African people from Antiquity through slavery and The Civil War in creative way …
Atticus Finch Monument at Old Courthouse in Monroeville, AL
Located in Monroe County | What you’ll find: Arts & Culture | HistoricalHarper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was born and raised in Monroeville, AL. The fictional town of Maycomb is modeled on Monroeville. Atticus Finch, the central character in To Kill a Mockingbird, is a lawyer …
Bethany Baptist Church
Located in Conecuh, Monroe County | What you’ll find: HistoricalThe Bethany Baptist Church was established in 1821 in nearby Conecuh County. The church moved to Puryearville (Monroe County) on Camp Ground Creek near Burnt Corn in 1846. During this era, both Blacks and Whites worshiped at the same church. After the …
Bienville Monument Museum
Located in Dallas County | What you’ll find: Historical | MuseumThe Bienville Monument, erected in 1932, honors the engagement between Ėcor Bienville (now Selma) and the Alibamo Indians on the bluff along the Alabama River.
Bluff Hall
Located in Marengo County | What you’ll find: Historical | Museum | ShoppingBluff Hall is located in Demopolis high on White Bluff (Ecor Blanc) on the Tombigbee River where the band of French exiles landed in 1817. The house was built in 1832 by Allen Glover for his daughter, Sarah Serena Glover, and her husband, Francis Stro …
Bobby’s Fish Camp at Bladon Springs, AL
Located in Choctaw County | What you’ll find: Dining | HistoricalBobby’s Fish Camp is located at the old Bladon Springs landing on the Tombigbee River in the southeastern part of Choctaw County. Bobby’s Fish Camp has been in operation for over half a century and is one of the oldest restaurants in southwest Alabama. …
Booker’s Mill
Located in Conecuh County | What you’ll find: Historical | Museum | Outdoor RecreationBooker’s Mill is known for both its historical value and scenic beauty. The mill, built in the 1800s by prison workers, provided electricity to the neighborhood. It has long been closed as an electricity generating plant. The land and the building n …
Bridge Tender’s House
Located in Dallas County | What you’ll find: HistoricalSelma’s first bridge across the Alabama River opened in 1885. Opening and closing the necessary spans and collecting tolls was a 24-7 job performed by a bridge tender. The bridge tender and his family lived in the bridge tender’s house which was const …
Broadhead Memorial Park
Located in Choctaw County | What you’ll find: Historical | Museum | Outdoor RecreationThis is a small park that is located at the community of Needham, AL in Choctaw County. It is proof that a park need not be large or elaborate to be a real pleasure. The park is built around the old Walter Wilson gristmill which was the center of life …
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church and King Monument
Located in Dallas County | What you’ll find: Architectural | HistoricalChampion Sparkleberry Tree
Located in Choctaw County | What you’ll find: HistoricalThe largest Sparkleberry Tree in the state
Choctaw County Courthouse
Located in Choctaw County | What you’ll find: HistoricalBuilt in 1906-1907 this courthouse houses public records and research material for the probate office. The original building was erected in 1848, but two fires caused the citizens of Choctaw County to rebuild. The latest wing was completed in 1965. A M …
Choctaw County Historical Museum
Located in Choctaw County | What you’ll find: Arts & Culture | Historical | MuseumThe Choctaw County Historical Museum is located beside the Town Park at downtown Gilbertown, AL. The main building of the museum contains all types of displays that illustrate how life was in earlier times. Behind the main museum is another building …
Clarke County Historical Museum
Located in Clarke County | What you’ll find: Archeological | Historical | MuseumAt the intersection of U.S. Highways 84W and 43 in Grove Hill stands the Clarke County Museum. With its pristine exterior, white picket fence, and ample lawn shaded by oaks, magnolias, and pecan trees, this plantation plain-style home invites passers-b …
Coretta Scott King Memorial
Located in Perry County | What you’ll find: HistoricalCoretta Scott was born in Heiberger, Alabama and raised on the farm of her parents Bernice McMurry Scott, and Obadiah Scott, in Perry County, Alabama. She was exposed at an early age to the injustices of life in a segregated society. She walked five mi …
Dale Masonic Lodge
Located in Wilcox County | What you’ll find: HistoricalThe Dale Masonic Lodge organized at Dale Town (later Prairie Bluff) in 1827. When the town declined in the 1840s, members voted to move the lodge to Camden. The Dale Masonic Lodge building that’s shown was built circa 1848. Union troops camped in this …
