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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 ...
Museums in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Birmingham, Alabama . Pages in category "Museums in Birmingham, Alabama"
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]
Operated by Historic Scotland, 15th- to 17th-century house open on select days, grounds include the Kinneil Museum: Kinneil Museum: Bo'ness: Falkirk: Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs Local website, located in the 17th-century stable block of Kinneil House, history of the park and house from Roman times to the present
At the beginning of the 19th century, Birmingham had a population of around 74,000. By the end of the century it had grown to 630,000. This rapid population growth meant that by the middle of the century Birmingham had become the second largest population centre in Britain. [246] Curzon Street station; Birmingham's first railway terminus
The Museum of Science & Industry is opened in the former Elkington electroplating works, Newhall Street, as a museum owned by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. 1953 4 July: Last Birmingham Corporation Tramways routes cease to operate. 28 September: A reconstructed section of Metchley Fort is opened by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, G. H. W ...
The Red Mountain Expressway Cut, also known as the Red Mountain Geological Cut, is a section of Red Mountain that was blasted and removed in the 1960s to allow the Red Mountain Expressway to enter downtown Birmingham, Alabama. This highway links Birmingham with its southern suburbs of Homewood, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills. It has spurred ...
The Sloss Furnaces site became a National Historic Landmark in 1981, and opened to the public as the nation's first and only 20th century blast furnace site preserved as a museum on Labor Day weekend, 1983. In February 2009, Sloss became the new home of the SLSF 4018 steam locomotive, which was relocated from Birmingham's Fair Park.