James Marion Sims

Historical marker location:

South Bainbridge Street, Montgomery, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of South Bainbridge Street and Dexter Avenue, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1939

1813 - 1888. Father of Modern Gynecology.

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.