Dallas (Optimist) Park / (Dallas) Optimist Park

Historical marker location:

703 Oakwood Avenue Northeast, Huntsville, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from Oakwood Avenue Northeast just east of England Street Northeast, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1994

The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat, was built in Mobile, Alabama in 1863.