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Walker County was established on December 26, 1823, and formed from sections of Marion and Tuscaloosa counties. [1] It was named after Senator John Walker, who represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate from 1819 to 1822. [1] The county was greatly reduced in size on February 12, 1850, when its northern half became the county of Winston.
Location of Walker County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Walker County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Walker County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
FIPS code. 01-73848. GNIS feature ID. 153607 [2] Website. Official website. Sumiton is a city in Jefferson and Walker counties in the State of Alabama. It incorporated in 1952. [3] At the 2010 census the population was 2,520, down from 2,665 in 2000.
The Jasper Downtown Historic District comprises 400 acres (160 ha) of Jasper, Alabama, centered on the county courthouse. Most of the buildings in the district are commercial, with other uses including the Masonic Temple, the post office and city hall, several houses and a number of warehouses. Most of the buildings were built in the 1920s ...
March 24, 1972. The Gilchrist House was a historic farmhouse near Cordova in Walker County, Alabama. Built when Alabama was still a part of the Mississippi Territory, it was considered by architectural scholars as one of the older surviving houses in Alabama and the oldest structure in the central and western area of the state. [2][3] It was ...
Boshell's Mill is the historic site of a gristmill and sawmill on Lost Creek near Townley in rural Walker County, Alabama. The 4-acre (1.6 ha) site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1] It was recorded by the Historic American Engineering Record as part of the Birmingham District in 1992. [3]
Jasper is a city in and the county seat of [2] Walker County, Alabama, United States.Its population was 14,352 as of the 2010 census. [3] Named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero, Jasper was settled around 1815 and incorporated on August 18, 1886.
The mine belonged to a family member of one of the children in his class. It is east of Jasper, Alabama in Walker County, Alabama. According to a research paper, the site was once part of a "swampy tropical forest adjacent to a tidal flat during the Coal Age or Carboniferous Period more than 300 million years ago. That fecund strand of sand and ...