Montgomery County, Alabama
Alabama State Capitol
Alabama State University Historic District
Bell Building
Brame House
Bricklayers Hall
Brittan, Patrick Henry, House
Building 800-Austin Hall
Building 836-Community College of the Air Force Building
Cassimus House
City of St. Jude Historic District
Cleveland Court Apartments 620-638
Cloverdale Historic District
Cottage Hill Historic District
Court Square Historic District
Court Square-Dexter Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Davis, Jefferson, Hotel
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Dowe Historic District
Edgewood
First White House of the Confederacy
Garden District
Gay House
Gerald-Dowdell House
Governor's Mansion
Grace Episcopal Church
Grove Court Apartments
Huntingdon College Campus Historic District
Jackson, Jefferson Franklin, House
Jones, Gov. Thomas G., House
Lower Commerce Street Historic District
Lower Commerce Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Lower Commerce Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Maxwell Air Force Base Senior Officer's Quarters Historic District
McBryde-Screws-Tyson House
Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station
Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed
Montgomery Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District
Mt. Zion AME Zion Church
Murphy House, The
Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Opp Cottage
Ordeman-Shaw Historic District
Pastorium, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Pepperman House
Perry Street Historic District
Powder Magazine
Sayre Street School
Scott Street Firehouse
Semple House
Shepherd Building
Smith-Joseph-Stratton House
South Perry Street Historic District
St. John's Episcopal Church
Stay House
Steiner-Lobman and Teague Hardware Buildings
Stone Plantation
Tankersley Rosenwald School
Thigpen, Dr. C. A., House
Tulane Building
Tyson-Maner House
United States Post Office and Courthouse-Montgomery
Wharton-Chappell House
Winter Building
Winter Place
Yancey, William Lowndes, Law Office
'Washington' Elm Tree
167th Infantry / Alabama’s Own
1Lt Karl W. Richter
37th Division The Buckeye Division
9th Infantry Division / “The Old Reliables”
A County Older Than the State
A Mighty Walk From Selma
A Nation Divided / Cradle of the Confederacy
A Refuge
A Tale of Two Towns
Abner McGehee / Early Alabama Entrepreneur
Abram Mordecai / Mordecai's Cotton Gin
Air University / Maxwell Air Force Base
Air University Commanders
Airman First Class John L. Levitow Monument
Alabama Bicentennial Park / Ancient Sea
Alabama Confederate Monument
Alabama Governor's Mansion
Alabama Highway Patrol
Alabama River: The Grand Avenue
Alabama State Capitol
Alabama State University / Tatum Street
Alabama State University / Tullibody
Alabama Territory / Path to Statehood
Alabama War Veterans Monument
Alabama's First Capitals / The Alabama State Capitol
Alabama's First Peoples / Creek Country
Alabama's Third Century / Alabama Voices
Albert L. Patterson
Always Vigilant
An Intersection of History: Court Square
Antioch Baptist Church
Army Air Corps Enlisted Pilots
AU "Thinks War"
Augusta and the Old Augusta Cemetery
Aurelia Eliscera Shines Browder
Award of Air Force Cross to Arthur N. Black
Award of Air Force Cross to Charles D. King
Award of Air Force Cross to Charles D. McGrath
Award of Air Force Cross to Charles L. Schaub
Award of Air Force Cross to Dennis M. Richardson
Award of Air Force Cross to Donald G. Smith
Award of Air Force Cross to Duane D. Hackney
Award of Air Force Cross to Dustin H. Temple
Award of Air Force Cross to Eugene L. Clay
Award of Air Force Cross to Ivan M. Ruiz
Award of Air Force Cross to Jason D. Cunningham
Award of Air Force Cross to Joel E. Talley
Award of Air Force Cross to John A. Chapman
Award of Air Force Cross to Jon D. Harston
Award of Air Force Cross to Keary J.Miller
Award of Air Force Cross to Larry W. Maysey
Award of Air Force Cross to Leroy M. Wright
Award of Air Force Cross to Michael E. Fish
Award of Air Force Cross to Nacey Kent Jr
Award of Air Force Cross to Richard L. Etchberger
Award of Air Force Cross to Robert Gutierrez, Jr.
Award of Air Force Cross to Russell M. Hunt
Award of Air Force Cross to Theodore M. Hamlin
Award of Air Force Cross to Thomas A. Newman
Award of Air Force Cross to Timothy A. Wilkinson
Award of Air Force Cross to Victor R. Adams
Award of Air Force Cross to William A. Robinson
Award of Air Force Cross to William H. Pitsenbarger
Award of Air Force Cross to Zachary J. Rhyner
"Battle Flag of the Confederacy"
Bernard Whitehurst and the Whitehurst Case / Montgomery: Learning From the Past
Bertha Pleasant Williams / Rosa Parks Branch Library
Bertha Pleasant Williams Library
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Beulah Baptist Church
Birth of Montgomery Bus Boycott
Birthplace of Nat "King" Cole
Black Bricklayers Hall
Black Churches Provide Significant Support for the March and Voting
Black Members of the Alabama Legislature Who Served During The Reconstruction Period of 1868-1879
Black Members of the Alabama Legislature Who Served During The Reconstruction Period of 1868-1879
Boeing B-52D "Stratofortress"
Brewer Memorial Church
Brigadier General Birkett Davenport Fry, CSA / Colonel B.D. Fry at Battle of Gettysburg
British and Commonwealth Pilots Trained in the U.S.A.
Camellia Designated Alabama State Flower
Camp Sheridan
Campsite 4
Capitol Heights Elementary School
Centennial Hill
Cessna T-41A "Mescalero"
Changing Roles of AU
Chantilly Plantation
Charles Oscar Harris Family Home
Charlie and Lucille Times
Chennault Circle
Chris’ Hot Dogs
City of Montgomery / Court Square
City of St. Jude/The Selma to Montgomery March
Civil Rights Freedom Riders
Civil War - Barnes School / Figh-Pickett House
Civil War Laurel Oak Tree
Civil War Medicine / Montgomery's Confederate Hospitals
Clement Clay "Bo" Torbert, Jr.
Cleveland Court Apartments
Combat Skyspot
Confederate Military Prison / Civil War Military Prisons
Confederate States of America (CSA) Post Office Department
Corporal Vernon L. Burge
Cotton State / Slavery
Court Square Fountain
Day Street Baptist Church
Decorative Lions Heads
Dexter Avenue
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dr. J. Marion Sims
Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church
Elijah Cook / City of Montgomery v. Rosa Parks
Emancipation / Reconstruction
Encanchata
Ernest C. “Sonny” Hornsby
Establishment of Air University 1946
Expansion of Air University
Fair Prospect Cemetery Montgomery County
Fallen Vietnam War Heroes of Montgomery County
Federal Road, 1805,
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
First National Confederate Flag
First United Methodist Church
First White House of the Confederacy
Fitzgerald Home
Flame of Freedom
Folmar - Siegelman House
Forest Avenue's Medical Facilities / Oak Park Montgomery's First Public Park
Former POWs And Those MIA
Four Points: One of Several Black Business Hubs in Montgomery
Fourth Aviation Squadron Historic District
Fred David Gray
From Bus Boycott to Voting Rights: Community Activism 1955-65
General Charles Graham Boyd
General Larry D. Welch
General Richard Montgomery Statue
George Washington
Georgia Gilmore
Georgia Washington School
Globalization / 21st Century Economy
Governor Jones House
Governor Shorter House
Governor William Calvin Oates / Colonel W. C. Oates, CSA at Gettysburg
Grace Episcopal Church
Great Depression / New Deal
Gunter Annex / Gunter Basic Flying Training School
Hall Street Baptist Church
Harris House
Here Stood Mrs. Rosa Parks
Heroes' Welcome
High Red Bluff
Highway Construction Destroys Historic Black Neighborhoods
Historic Chappell House
Historic Site of St. James Holt Crossing Baptist Church
Historic Sites Near Fairview Environmental Park
History of the Alabama State Bar
Holt Street Baptist Church
Home of Dr. E. D. Nixon, Sr.
Home of Ralph David Abernathy
House of the Mayors
Howell Thomas Heflin
Huntingdon College
Industrialization / Iron Boom
James Edwin Livingston
James Marion Sims
Janney Foundry Co.
Jefferson Davis
John Allan Wyeth
Johnnie R. and Arlam Carr, Sr. Home
Joint Programs
Jonathan Coggswell Farley / Montgomery's First Election
Joseph Lister Hill
Josiah Morris
Judge Frank M. Johnson: Judicial Fairness in the Age of Segregation
Juliette Hampton Morgan / Montgomery City-County Public Library
Kahl Montgomery/Catoma Street Church of Christ
Khobar Towers Memorial
Knox Hall
Korean Service Memorial & Medal
Korean War
Ladies Memorial Association
Lilly Baptist Church
Lincoln Cemetery / Rufus Payne, 1884-1939
Lister Hill Center
Lomax House, 1848
Loveless School/Henry Allen Loveless
Lower Dexter Park
Lt. William C. Maxwell / Air Force ROTC
Lucas Hill Cemetery
Lucas Tavern
Lucas Tavern
Lucas Tavern / Lafayette
Lucien Dunbibben Gardner
Made in Alabama / Space Race
Madison Park School
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault / Three Men on a Flying Trapeze
Major Charles W. Davis, Infantry United States Army / "Above and Beyond"
Major General James Harrison Wilson, USV
Major Lemuel Purnell Montgomery
Marching On
Marching to Montgomery
Marks House
Marquis de Lafayette
Marshall J. Moore House
Maxwell Air Force Base and the Air University
Maxwell Air Force Base/Air University
McDonnell Douglas F-4D "Phantom II"
McDonnell RF-101C "Voodoo"
Minister's Home / Dr. Martin Luther King
Montgomery
Montgomery and Electricity / Hydroelectricity in the River Region
Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce
Montgomery Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War
Montgomery City Hall / Funeral for Hank Williams
Montgomery County Circuit Court / Sit-Ins and Marches at the Montgomery County Courthouse
Montgomery County Korean War Veterans
Montgomery County Vietnam War Memorial
Montgomery County World War II Monument
Montgomery Freemasonry
Montgomery Racial Segregation on Buses
Montgomery Theatre
Montgomery's Panel Project
Montgomery's Slave Depots/Montgomery's Slave Traders
Montgomery’s Slave Markets / First Emancipation Observance - 1866
Monument to Powered Flight
"Moon Tree"
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal AME Zion Church
Murphy House
Naming the City of Montgomery / Brigadier General Richard Montgomery
Native Americans
Naval Heroes of the War of 1812
North American B-25 Mitchell
North American F-100D "Super Sabre"
North American F-86A "Sabre"
Northrop T-38A "Talon"
Office of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill
Old Elam Baptist Church
Old Elam Baptist Church Cemetery
Old Oakwood Cemetery
Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church
Operation Allied Force
Operation Eagle Claw
Operation Noble Eagle
Ordeman House Museum
Percy Lavon Julian
Pickett Springs / “The Best Public Resort”
Pike Road School
Pintlala Grange Hall / Grange Hall School
Pintlala School
Pioneer Settlers of Ebenezer Community
Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church
Populism / 1901 Constitution
Portrait of Rosa Parks
Professor John Metcalfe Starke / Starke University School
Racial Inequality in the United States
Rainbow Soldier
Ray Cemetery
Ray W. Scott Jr. Founded Bass Anglers Movement
Remount Depot / Keyton Station
Reorganization
Republic F-105D "Thunderchief"
Resistance and War / Alabama Fever
Return from the Argonne
Rev. John L. Alford Sr.
Rev. Richard C. Boone
Rev. Robert S. & Jean Graetz
Rice-Semple-Haardt House
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks / The Bus Stop
Rosa Louise Parks
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott / Hank Williams Alabama Troubadour
Rosa Parks Returns to St. Paul AME / Rosa Parks's Faith Guided Her Life
Rosa Parks Statue
Ross-Clayton Funeral Home, Inc.
Royal Air Force Burial Ground
Rural Life / Agricultural Economy
Secession & Confederacy / Civil War
Second National Confederate Flag
Segregation / Civil Rights
Selma-to-Montgomery March
Sherman W. White, Jr.
Sidney Lanier High School
Sikorsky MH-53M 'Pave Low IV' Helicopter
Site of Indian Town Tawasa
Site of the Warren Reese House
Smith - Joseph - Stratton House
South Jackson Street / Victor Hugo Tulane
Southwest Asia Service Medal
St. John's Episcopal Church
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
Struggle For Colonial Empire
Support: Local and Organizational
Swayne College / Booker T. Washington School
Tankersley Rosenwald School
Taylor Field
Teague House
Teague Road
Teague Road
Telegram Which Began War Between The States / Winter Building
"That Others May Live"
The Air Corps Tactical School
The Air Power Legacy
The Bethel Cemetery
The Capital City Guards
The Domestic Slave Trade / Slave Transportation to Montgomery
The Dowe Houses
The E. L. Posey Parking Lot
The Federal Road / Manac's Tavern
The First Offices of the Confederate Government
The First White House of the Confederacy
The Five Points Area: A Unique Blend of Communities in 1965
The Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Building and US Courthouse
The Freedom Rides
The Hon. Rufus A. Lewis
The Jackson-Community House/The Montgomery City Federation of Women’s Clubs
The Jonesville Community
The Lightning Route / Central Bank Building
The Montgomery Slave Trade/Warehouses Used in the Slave Trade
The Montgomery Theater
The Moore-Tyson-McPhillips Home
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The Next Fifty Years
The Oaks Plantation
The Reality
The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March
The Spirit of the Minuteman
The Thunderbirds
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Wharton-Chappell House / Riverside Heights
The Wright Brothers Flying School
"Third National Confederate Flag"
Thompson Mansion
Thousands Protest at the Seat of Government
Thunderbird Park
To the Memory of General Marquis De La Fayette
Town of Pike Road Veterans Memorial
Train Shed 1897
Tribute to Montgomery's "Foot Soldiers"
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Unforgettable
Union Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
Union Station & Riverfront Park / Lower Commerce Street
United States Flag Raised Over Alabama Capitol
Vietnam Service Memorial
William C. Oates
William Lowndes Yancey
William R. Lawley, Jr.
Wilson Hall
World War I Memorial
World War II / Defense Economy
Wright Brothers Flying School
Year of Training
“Bird-Dog”
The county was officially established in 1816 and named after General Richard Montgomery, a Revolutionary War hero. The city of Montgomery, located in the heart of the county, quickly became its center of economic and political activity. The county's fertile soils made it ideal for agriculture, and cotton soon became the dominant crop. The heavy reliance on enslaved labor led to Montgomery County becoming a major hub of the domestic slave trade.
Montgomery County played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The city of Montgomery was the site of several historically significant events, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, sparked by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat. This event marked a turning point in the fight against racial segregation and inspired similar movements across the country.
Today, Montgomery County continues to thrive as the capital of Alabama and a center for government, industry, and culture. The county is home to numerous historical landmarks, such as Old Alabama Town and the Civil Rights Memorial, which commemorate the area's rich history. With a diverse population and a growing economy, Montgomery County looks to the future while acknowledging its past and the important role it played in shaping the nation.
Brief timeline of the history of Montgomery County, Alabama:
- 1816: Montgomery County is established and named after Lemuel P. Montgomery, an early settler in the area.
- 1846: Montgomery becomes the state capital of Alabama.
- 1861-1865: Montgomery plays a significant role in the Civil War as the first capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1870: The completion of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad connects Montgomery to the major port city of Mobile, boosting economic growth.
- 1955: The Montgomery Bus Boycott takes place after Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat, becoming a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
- 1965: Montgomery serves as a starting point for the historic Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.
- 2001: Hyundai opens a manufacturing plant in Montgomery County, bringing economic investment and job opportunities to the area.
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Montgomery County, Alabama.