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 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.