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Alabama National Historic Landmarks

Apalachicola Fort Site - 3/23/2023
Spain established a wattle and daub blockhouse on the Chattahoochee River in 1690, attempting to maintain influence among the Lower Creek Indians

Barton Hall (Cherokee) - 10/15/2017
An unusually sophisticated Greek Revival-style antebellum plantation house built for the mercantile businessman in the 1840s

Bethel Baptist Church (Birmingham) - 10/14/2017
Noted for its significant association with Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, it was the three-times-bombed historical headquarters of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Brown Chapel A.M.E Church (Selma) - 3/23/2023
A starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, and it played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery) - 3/23/2023
Important in the civil rights movement and American history, Martin Luther King Jr. was the pastor of this church from 1954 to 1960

Edmund Pettus Bridge (Selma) - 5/20/2003
A steel through arch bridge named for Confederate general Edmund Winston Pettus and famous as the site of the 1965 conflict when armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators attempting to march to Montgomery

Episcopal Church of the Nativity (Huntsville) - 2/13/2020
Built in 1859, it is one of the most pristine examples of Ecclesiological Gothic architecture in the South

First Confederate Capitol (Montgomery) - 10/1/1997 (photo 3/24/2023)
Holds the unique historical distinction of being the only U.S. state capitol building ever to host the formation of another nation

Fort Mitchell Site (Fort Mitchell) - 3/23/2023
A reconstruction of the 1813 stockade fort that was an important U.S. military post in the Creek War

Gaineswood (Demopolis) - 10/14/2017
Completed in its current Greek Revival form in 1861, it is considered to be Alabama's finest neoclassical house and one of the country’s most unusual neoclassical mansions

Ivy Green (Florence) - 10/15/2017
The childhood home of Helen Keller, the simple white clapboard house was built in 1820 and includes the well pump where Keller first communicated with Anne Sullivan

J. L. M. Curry Home (Talladega) - 10/15/2017
The home of the politician, diplomat, educator, and enthusiastic advocate of universal education

Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed (Montgomery) - 3/23/2023
Constructed in 1898, this is an example of late 19th-century commercial architecture, serving as the focal point of transportation into

Moundville Archaeological Site (Moundville) - 10/14/2017
The site was the political and ceremonial center of a regionally organized Mississippian culture chiefdom polity between the 11th and 16th centuries

Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator (Huntsville) - 2/13/2020
A neutral buoyancy pool where starting in 1968, engineers and astronauts developed hardware and practiced procedures

Propulsion And Structural Test Facility (Huntsville) - 2/13/2020
Built in 1957, it was the site where the first single-stage rockets with multiple engines were tested

Redstone Test Stand (Huntsville) - 2/13/2020
Used to develop and test fire the Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle

Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand (Huntsville) - 2/13/2020
The test stand used for testing of the Saturn V rocket and the Space Shuttle prior to the vehicles' first flights

Saturn V Launch Vehicle (Huntsville) - 2/13/2020
A prototype Saturn V rocket used by NASA to test the performance of the rocket when vibrated

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham) - 10/14/2017
Target of the 1963 bombing that killed four young girls who were preparing for Sunday school, which became a galvanizing force for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Sloss Blast Furnaces (Birmingham) - 10/14/2017
Operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971, it became one of the first industrial sites in the U.S. to be preserved and restored for public use

St. Andrews Episcopal Church (Prairieville) - 10/14/2017
The 1853 board-and-batten Carpenter Gothic Revival-style church supported the 1834 mission which servef the settlers who mostly came from the Atlantic Seaboard

Swayne Hall, Talladega College (Talladega) - 10/15/2017
The oldest building, built in 1857 in part by slaves, on the campus of Talladega College, for a time the only liberal arts college for black Americans in Alabama

Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee) - 10/1/1997
The campus of the Tuskegee Institute, including sites relating to Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver

United States Post Office and Courthouse (Montgomery) - 3/23/2023
Many key civil rights cases, including the bus boycott litigation, were heard in this 1933 Classical Revival building

Wilson Dam (Muscle Shoals) - 10/15/2017
The dam, eventually part of the TVA, submerged the Muscle Shoals, opening the upper Tennessee River for navigation with the highest single lift lock east of the Rockys

Yuchi Town Site - 3/23/2023
An example of historic Native American cultures adopting various strategies to maintain their cultural integrity in the face of European colonization and the expansion of the U.S.