Boom Town Historic District

Historical marker location:

Fort Payne, Alabama

( Marker is on 5th Street south of Gault Avenue North (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1989

Alabama is home to several important civil rights landmarks, including the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was the site of a deadly bombing in 1963, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was the site of the "Bloody Sunday" confrontation between civil rights marchers and state troopers in 1965.