Cullman County WWII Memorial

Historical marker location:

1544 Sportsman Lake Road NW, Cullman, Alabama

( Memorial can be reached from Sportsman Lake Road NW, 0.4 miles west of 2nd Avenue NW (Route 31).)

The first European settlement in Alabama was established in 1702 by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile, which is now the city of Mobile. It was named after Louis XIV of France and was the capital of French Louisiana until 1711.