Our History

Historical marker location:

2110-2170 AL-67, Decatur, Alabama

( Marker is on Wheeler Wildlife Boat Launch north of Alabama Route 67, on the right when traveling north.)

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.

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.