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The Ashville Historic District in Ashville, Alabama is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1] In 2005, it included 122 contributing buildings plus one other contributing site and one other contributing object.
Ashville is a city [2] in and one of the county seats of St. Clair County, Alabama, United States, [3] other seat being Pell City. Its population was 2,212 at the 2010 census , down from 2,260, at which time it was a town.
Inzer was the county's delegate to Alabama's secession convention in January 1861, after which he served in the Confederate States Army. After the Civil War, he returned to Ashville and served several stints as judge and in the Alabama State Senate. [2] Following Inzer's death in 1928, the home remained as a family residence until 1987.
1725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement. The French also colonized the region. In 1702 they founded a settlement on the Mobile River near its mouth, constructing Fort Louis. For the next nine years this was the French seat of government of New France, or La Louisiane . In 1711, they abandoned Fort Louis because of ...
It is famous for hosting the Marquis de Lafayette during his 1825 trip through Alabama. Now stands at Old Alabama Town. [13] John Looney House: Ashville: 1818 House The oldest two story dogtrot house in the state. [14] Cedarwood: Moundville: 1818 House Possibly the earliest surviving plantation in the black belt region of Alabama.
Alabama Coat of Arms (1923) and the State Seal include the Confederate Battle Flag. Alabama State Flag (1895) The Alabama Department of Archives and History found in 1915 that the flag was meant to "preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive features of the Confederate battle flag, particularly the St. Andrew's cross."
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]
The National Historic Landmarks in Alabama represent Alabama's history from the precolonial era, through the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Age. There are 39 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Alabama , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which are located in 18 of the state's 67 counties .