Buena Vista

Historical marker location:

641 County Road 4 East, Prattville, Alabama

( Marker is on County Road 4, 0.1 miles west of Buena Vista Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1999

Montgomery-Janes-Wittaker Home. (circa 1830).

Alabama is home to the largest cast iron statue in the world. The Vulcan statue, located in Birmingham, stands 56 feet tall and weighs over 100,000 pounds. It was built in 1904 for the St. Louis World's Fair and was later brought to Birmingham as a symbol of the city's industrial might.