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The Fort Payne Residential Historic District is a historic district in Fort Payne, Alabama.The district represents both of Fort Payne's major periods of growth: the 1880s and 1890s, fueled by the area's mineral deposits; and the 1910s through the 1930s, bolstered by the development of the hosiery industry.
Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. It is near Lookout Mountain . At the 2020 census , the population was 14,877.
The Fort Payne Main Street Historic District is a historic district in Fort Payne, Alabama.Centered on the intersection of Gault Avenue and 1st Street, the district contains commercial and public buildings that date from Fort Payne's second period of growth from the 1920s to World War II.
The city of Fort Payne, now the county seat, developed around a fort of the same name, built in the 1830s to intern Cherokee of the region prior to their removal. In the early 19th century, Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who independently created the Cherokee syllabary, a written system for his language, lived in this area. He had been born in a ...
Cherokee Plantation is a historic house in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States.The house was built in 1790 as a two-story log cabin by Andrew Ross, a judge on the Cherokee Supreme Court and brother of Principal Chief John Ross. [3]
The Fort Payne Boom Town Historic District is a historic district in Fort Payne, Alabama.The district encompasses five properties built around 1889, when Fort Payne was undergoing huge growth owing to the area's mineral deposits.
The Fort Payne Depot Museum (formerly the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Passenger Depot) is a historic building in Fort Payne, Alabama. The depot was built by the Alabama Great Southern Railroad in 1891, at the height of Fort Payne's mining-driven boom. Passenger service ended in 1970, but the depot continued to service freight until 1983.
The W. B. Davis Hosiery Mill (also known as the Alabama Builders' Hardware Manufacturing Company Complex) is a historic industrial complex in Fort Payne, Alabama.It opened in 1884 in the midst of Fort Payne's economic boom, manufacturing building hardware and supplies.