· August 7, 2026
Dr. Francis Louis Constantine
A wealthy Greene County merchant and land speculator, son of Dominique Constantine, one of Napoleon’s officers, and himself part of […]
Glossary Type: Person
· August 7, 2026
Rev. Lockhart
A Cumberland Presbyterian minister who, in the spring of 1821, established a church of that order in Murphree’s Valley, and […]
· August 7, 2026
Gabriel Hanby
Born 1786, died March 1826. Moved from Henry County, Virginia, to become a pioneer leader in Blount County, Alabama. Son […]
· August 7, 2026
David Hanby
Son of John Hanby. Helped his father build a mill and forge on Turkey Creek in 1827, purposely built for […]
· August 7, 2026
W.F. Harrell
Owned a limestone quarry between Blount Springs and Bangor, documented in a 1907 U.S. Geological Survey bulletin as an open […]
· August 7, 2026
Captain J.D. Towner
Managed the original Jackson House hotel at Blount Springs after it opened in 1872, popular enough under his management that […]
· August 7, 2026
Ruth Green Jones
Albion Benton Green‘s granddaughter. Remembered watching the June 3, 1915 fire that ended Blount Springs‘ resort era as a child […]
· August 7, 2026
Henry F. DeBardeleben
A future Birmingham industrialist, later the driving force behind the Pratt Mines and Alice Furnace in Birmingham. Business partner to […]
· August 7, 2026
Col. Fitzhugh
A railroad engineer and close friend of Col. J.F.B. Jackson. Built the large house still visible north of downtown Blount […]
· August 7, 2026
James and Mack Sloss
Brothers who bought the Jackson House and surrounding land from Col. J.F.B. Jackson in 1887, also operating the Sloss furnaces […]