· August 7, 2026
Old Baltimore
A short-lived river town on the Mulberry Fork, founded in 1820 by three proprietors, William Dunn (a Blount County judge […]
Glossary Type: Place
· August 7, 2026
Summit Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Founded in the spring of 1821 in Blountsville, per George Powell’s 1855 “History of Blount County,” alongside a sister congregation […]
· August 7, 2026
Blountsville United Methodist Church
Founded April 1818 at “Bear-meat Cabin,” the precursor settlement to Blountsville, by Rev. Ebenezer Hearn - the first religious address […]
· August 7, 2026
Champion Mines
Ground where John Hanby found a rich seam of brown iron ore in 1817. Named Champion in 1882, when Henry […]
· August 7, 2026
L’Orient
Founded around 1872 by Dr. Francis Louis Constantine, a French-immigrant land speculator, as a town adjoining the hotel and eight […]
· August 7, 2026
Zola Missionary Baptist Church
Established in 1960 on the land that became Smoke Rise, two years before the Smoke Rise Development Corporation itself was […]
· August 7, 2026
Logan’s General Store
Opened in 1958 on Highway 160, the same year the land that became Smoke Rise still appears as farmland and […]
· August 7, 2026
Standridge Bend
A bend in the Locust Fork east of Hayden, still labeled by that name on maps, where the Standridge Bridge […]
· August 7, 2026
Grandview
A street in modern Smoke Rise. The ridge it sits on was once reached by a dirt road with a […]
· August 7, 2026
Standridge Bridge
Built in 1934 on a bend of the Locust Fork east of Hayden, the longest covered bridge in Alabama and […]