Pictured is a reference librarian assisting a fireman at the Huntsville Public Library. The fire department was next to the Library and the firemen were frequent patrons.
Pictured in front of the Huntsville Library bookmobile, left to right: city council member James E. Davis, library board member Mrs. Claude Davis, Roy L. Stone, County Commission Chairman, and Mrs. Elizabeth Parks Beamguard, library director.
The Regional Library Bookmobile was backed by TVA money in order to serve the dam builders in Jackson and Marshall counties. Pictured here are Mrs. Claude Davis, of the Huntsville Public Library board of directors, and Mr. Jimmy Davis, a member of...
Reuben Chapman was the 13th governor of Alabama, from 1847-1849. He moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1824. There, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and practiced for a year in Huntsville. He then moved to Morgan County, Alabama, where...
The Reverend Dr.John Monro Bannister was the rector of the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, Alabama from 1860-1906. He was also the rector of Trinity Church in Demopolis, Alabama as well as the rector of St. Paul's Church in...
Reverend Constantine Blackmon Sanders was known as ""The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama."" Reverend Sanders was a Presbyterian minister from Madison County, Alabama, who claimed to experience psychic phenomena. He was the...
Johnston, Milus Eddings, 1823-1915; Unnited States History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Bushwhacker Johnston was a Methodist minister who became a soldier to protect his family. His Partisan Rangers harassed the Union troops of North Alabama in 1864 and 1865.
Harris, Richard; United States--History--Revolutionary War;
Richard Harris was a Revolutionary War soldier who came to Madison County, Alabama in 1809 from Powhatan County in Virginia. Harris entered the Revolutionary War at age 17 when he joined the Virginia Militia. He served until the end of the war and...
Ridgecrest Elementary School, located at 3505 Cerro Vista Street, was built in 1962. Shortly before opening, the architects had to build six additional classrooms to accommodate the community. Many students and materials from the overcrowded Joe...
Schools-Alabama-Huntsville; Rison High School (Huntsville, Ala.);
Rison School served educational and social needs of Dallas Village for four generations (1921-1964). It was located at the corner of Oakwood Avenue and Lee High Drive and was named for mill general manager Archie L. Rison. Cecil Fain was Rison's...
Robert Kirk Bell, also known as Buster, was a prominent Huntsville attorney and civic leader. He practiced law in Huntsville from 1938 to 1966, and was the director of the University of Alabama Research Foundation. Prior to his law practice, Bell...
Historic buildings--Alabama--Samuel Cruse House (Huntsville, Ala.);
Samuel Cruse built this house in 1825 on a lot he purchased in 1819 when Alabama became a state. The home still stands at the corner of Adams Ave. and Cruse Alley.