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Location of Madison County in Alabama. The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Retail establishments were centered on Joplin Street, however a fire in 1923 destroyed most of the structures. Depletion of the area's timber and the greater influence of neighboring Huntsville drew industry away in the 1920s and 1930s, though despite declining population a new Madison County High School was built in 1936.
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.
The Madison Station Historic District is a historic district in Madison, Alabama. Madison was first settled around 1818 as a farming community, but significant growth began in 1858, when the first depot was built along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad line. Madison Station became an important loading point for the shipment of cotton ...
Mount Paran Cemetery is a historic cemetery in New Market, Alabama that was founded in the early 1800s.The cemetery contains around 400 graves, including those of early Madison County pioneers, soldiers from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War, and a large number of slaves.
Bibb was an early landholder in Madison, one of the main proponents of its incorporation in 1869, and distant relative of Alabama's first two governors, William Wyatt Bibb and Thomas Bibb. In 1866, Bibb purchased 300 acres (120 ha) west of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad depot, farming corn and cotton himself on half of it and renting out ...
Counties of Alabama Alabama counties (clickable map) Location State of Alabama Number 67 Populations Greatest: 662,895 (Jefferson) Least: 7,341 (Greene) Average: 76,246 (2023) Areas Largest: 1,590 sq mi (4,100 km 2) (Baldwin) Smallest: 535 sq mi (1,390 km 2) (Etowah) Average: 782 sq mi (2,030 km 2) Government County government Subdivisions cities, towns, unincorporated communities, census ...
The island was the site of the Chickasaw town Chickasaw Old Fields. [2] Two mounds and the remnants of a dwelling remain on Hobbs Island. [ 3 ] Ditto Landing, formerly the site of a ferry on the Tennessee River, is located adjacent to Hobbs Island.