First United Methodist Church Jasper / President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Historical marker location:

1800 Third Avenue, Jasper, Alabama

( Marker is on Third Avenue.)

Attends Funeral of William Brockman Bankhead. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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.