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This list of cemeteries in Alabama includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Millbrook: Robinson Springs Camp Confederate Monument (1913) by UCV Camp No. 396, Elmore County, Alabama [49] Mobile: Statue of Admiral Raphael Semmes, on Government Street near the Bankhead Tunnel (1900) by SCV, Raphael Semmes Camp 11 [50] Removed June 5, 2020. Confederate Fortification Monument (1940), Mobile National Cemetery [51] Montgomery:
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.
After the election of Abraham Lincoln from the anti-slavery Republican Party in 1860, plus the prior secession declarations of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida, Alabama delegates also voted to secede from the United States, on January 11, 1861, in order to join and form a slaveholding Southern republic, [4] mostly of the Cotton States. [5]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
In the 1970s, The County of Culpeper, Virginia, built Lake Pelham to memorialize Pelham. In October 2022, the lake was renamed Lake Culpeper. During and after the war, Pelham's 1858 photograph, taken in the Mathew Brady studio, was well known by white Southerners still honoring the purposes of the Confederacy.
The Story of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama: Gill Press, 1953. ISBN 0-940882-14-0; Thomason, Michael. Mobile: the new history of Alabama's first city. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8173-1065-7; National Park Service: Teaching with Historic Places: Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay; Flotte's Notes on Mobile, Alabama, History
The 1860 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.