Author: Gary C. Daniels

Travel back in history to 60 million years ago. See fossils from the Claiborne Bluff. Native American artifacts, steamboat replicas

Alabama marble building. Oldest state-funded archives in U.S. Research government, private historical records and family genealogy. Alabama Indian, 19th-century, military

Prior to its incorporation as a town in 1834, Sylacauga was home to Shawnee Indians, who came to this area

Final battle of Creek War was fought at Horseshoe Bend of Tallapoosa River on March 27, 1814. Tour road with

There has been over 15,000 years of human habitation in the natural rock shelters located in the park. Humans have

A Woodland Indian burial called a “Copena” burial site can be seen in DeSoto Caverns. The word “Copena” comes from

Chief Ladiga was a Muscogee chief who relinquished his tribe’s lands when he signed the Treaty of Cusseta in 1832.

Displays include dinosaurs and fossils, mammals in open dioramas, 400-species bird collection, 2 authentic Egyptian mummies, walk-through replica of Alabama

A number if Apache POWs who died during their internment at the Mt. Vernon Barracks are buried in the National Cemetery

Outdoor site of battle in 1813 where more than 400 settlers fell in attack by Creek Indians. Led to outbreak

  1840s Trade Center museum housing vintage clothing, furniture, Indian exhibits, farm tools, old books, log cabin, blacksmith shop, gristmill,

Private collection of turn-of-the-century farm implements and home furnishings. Also Creek Indian artifacts (Creek Indian gamestones, boat-stones, bannerstone & gorgets),