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A Stranger’s Guide is the second of the five history galleries and focuses on the period between 1700 and 1830. It presents this period as a travel guide for the first-time visitor, offering advice on the best places to stay, work, spend your leisure time and even highlights the many local people you are likely to encounter, including the likes of John Baskerville and Matthew Boulton. [7]
Birmingham and its surrounding area. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The Fourth Avenue Historic District in Birmingham, Alabama was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included 17 contributing buildings on 4.2 acres (1.7 ha). It includes the 1600-1800 blocks of 4th Ave., N. and part of the 300 blocks of 17th and 18th Sts., N. [1]
History of the African-American Voting Rights and Women's Suffrage movements [121] Negro Southern League Museum: Birmingham: Jefferson: History of the Negro Southern League and Baseball in Birmingham [122] North Alabama Railroad Museum: Chase: Madison Features a rolling stock collection, a small train station and a small heritage railroad [123]
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England: About 8, 000 artifacts [34] Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts [35] The Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts [36] Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts [37]
Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens, or Arlington Historic House, is a former plantation and 6 acres (24,000 m 2) of landscaped gardens near downtown Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The two-story frame structure was built by enslaved people between 1845–50. Its style is antebellum-era Greek Revival architecture. The house serves as a ...
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Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States.It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. After closing, it became one of the first industrial sites (and the only blast furnace) in the U.S. to be preserved and restored for public use.