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Leeds is a tricounty municipality located in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Alabama; it is an eastern suburb of Birmingham. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,324. [3] Leeds was founded in 1877, during the final years of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Alabama Mining Museum: Dora: Walker: Exhibits include a 1900s train and mining cars, one-room African American school, elementary school, post office, and depot. [8] Alabama Museum of Health Sciences: Birmingham Jefferson Medical [9] Alabama Museum of Natural History: Tuscaloosa: Tuscaloosa: Natural history [10] Alabama Music Hall of Fame ...
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama.Under the direction of Thomas M. Owen its founder, the agency received state funding by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901.
A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived ...
[2] [3] In 1965 the museum was closed, and a few exhibits removed to a couple of rooms in the city library in 1966. The oversized Leeds Tiger, the giant moose skeleton and the carved wooden cart took up much of the space. In 1999 the museum went into storage, though researchers and the public could view items by appointment.
In the Legacy Museum is a large wall of shelves filled with dozens of gallon-size glass jars containing soil samples with the DNA of the lynching victims pulled from the roots of some of the trees ...
In 1928, Abbey House Museum was purchased by the Leeds Corporation, as place to display social history. Kirkstall Abbey transferred to the museum service at this time. In 1941 the museum was bombed and parts of the collections were destroyed. [8] In 1982 Leeds Industrial Museum opened to the public, with Blue Peter presenters as guests of ...