Robert Wilton Burton

Historical marker location:

315 East Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama

( Marker is on East Magnolia Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Burton Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1999

1848-1917.

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.