Albert Love Patterson

Historical marker location:

1501 5th Avenue South, Phenix City, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 15th Street, on the left when traveling north on 5th Avenue.)

Marker installed: 2006

January 27, 1891 - June 18, 1954.

Alabama is home to the largest cast iron statue in the world. The Vulcan statue, located in Birmingham, stands 56 feet tall and weighs over 100,000 pounds. It was built in 1904 for the St. Louis World's Fair and was later brought to Birmingham as a symbol of the city's industrial might.