As the first incorporated town in Alabama, Huntsville played an important part in the birth and growth of the state. Huntsville served as the temporary capital of Alabama from 1819 [more]

Pratt City Alabama native, Osmond Kelly Ingram, was the first United States serviceman killed in World War I. He died heroically when a German submarine attacked his ship, and he [more]

There is little that remains of the government buildings, businesses, and residences that once made up the first capital of Alabama. Now a historical park, the few enduring ruins of [more]

St. Stephens was chosen as Alabama’s first seat of government and served as its territorial capital between 1817 and 1819. The now-abandoned settlement of St. Stephens sat atop a limestone [more]

During the colonial period Fort Toulouse acted as a commercial, religious, and diplomatic frontier outpost for the French from 1717 until 1763. It was one of a series of forts [more]

The Vine and Olive Colony was an 1817 settlement of colonial French expatriates near present-day Demopolis. The settlers were mythologized as noble heroes of the Napoleonic wars in Albert J. [more]