Alabama, Shelby County, Pelham
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Side 1 Pelham, Alabama
Pelham, located in Shelby County, Alabama, acquired its name in approximately 1867. It was named for “Gallant Pelham” who fought in the Confederate Army and was killed in action at Kelly’s Ford, Virginia on March 17, 1863 at the young age of 24.Major John Pelham gallantly fought and protected the Confederacy Prison Camp located at Cahawba. The town was officially incorporated on July 10, 1964, at which time it has a population of 654. Through the 1990s, Pelham’s population grew by approximately 47 percent and the Pelham Public Library, Pelham Civic Complex and a historic cemetery were all under the operation of the City of Pelham. As of 2010 the population of Pelham was nearly 20,000.
Side 2 Ballantrae Golf Course
Established 2004
Ballantrae, a very small town in Scotland is best known as the traditional gathering place for the Scottish clan. Golf began in Scotland. Thousands of miles from Scotland, Pelham, Alabama’s Ballantrae community evoked images of the Old World through its architecture when it was designed and its golf course recalled the Scottish heritage of the game of golf. Set in spectacular surroundings, with every dogleg hole presenting a fresh set of challenges, as of 2010, the Ballantrae Golf Course had become of the most popular public courses in the Shelby County area.
(Entertainment • Settlements & Settlers • Sports • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Side 1 Pelham, Alabama
Pelham, located in Shelby County, Alabama, acquired its name in approximately 1867. It was named for “Gallant Pelham” who fought in the Confederate Army and was killed in action at Kelly’s Ford, Virginia on March 17, 1863 at the young age of 24.Major John Pelham gallantly fought and protected the Confederacy Prison Camp located at Cahawba. The town was officially incorporated on July 10, 1964, at which time it has a population of 654. Through the 1990s, Pelham’s population grew by approximately 47 percent and the Pelham Public Library, Pelham Civic Complex and a historic cemetery were all under the operation of the City of Pelham. As of 2010 the population of Pelham was nearly 20,000.
Side 2 Ballantrae Golf Course
Established 2004
Ballantrae, a very small town in Scotland is best known as the traditional gathering place for the Scottish clan. Golf began in Scotland. Thousands of miles from Scotland, Pelham, Alabama’s Ballantrae community evoked images of the Old World through its architecture when it was designed and its golf course recalled the Scottish heritage of the game of golf. Set in spectacular surroundings, with every dogleg hole presenting a fresh set of challenges, as of 2010, the Ballantrae Golf Course had become of the most popular public courses in the Shelby County area.
(Entertainment • Settlements & Settlers • Sports • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Shortly after the Civil War began, the Confederacy turned its attention to the Southwest, and in February, 1862, three thousand three hundred troops under the command of Confederate General Sibley, defeated the Union troops at Valverde, raised the Confederate flag, and occupied Santa Fe. The Confederates were defeated two weeks later in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
While the nation was celebrating the Centennial, Santa Fe was into its 266th year. Although the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago guaranteed the property of Hispanics and Indians, problems in the interpretation of Spanish and Mexican land laws worked to the disadvantage of these landholders. Many of their claims continued to appear in the courts into the 1980’s.
In 1906, Congress passed an act that would enable New Mexico and Arizona to become one large state. The residents in Arizona voted against the act, while the New Mexicans voted for it. It was not until 1912 that the opposing forces were reconciled and New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th state. At that time, it had a population of 330,000. Shortly afterwards, the discovery of oil and gas, together with increasing tourism, opened the state for rapid expansion.
Every year since 1926, when Will Shuster, and Jacques Cartier created the image, Santa Fe and friends have been able to release their ties to depression, gloom and uncertainty by burning a symbol of these misfortunes . . . Zozobra! The burning of the 40 foot monster marks the beginning of the Fiesta de Santa Fe and since 1963 the Downtown Kiwanis Club has been responsible for the creation, construction and staging of the the temporary death of Old Man Gloom.
The Creek provided fish for centuries for the Patawomeck people who in turn taught the colonists to fish to survive, to plant vegetables hitherto unknown to the English and to hunt in the forests. A surviving remnant of the Patawomeck became commercial fishermen in the 19th Century and their descendants today continue to work as watermen. Thus, many Patawomeck words have been incorporated permanently into the English language.
This site, once part of the Phillips property and occupied by the Union Army in the winter of 1862-1863 became the launch site for Aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe reconnaissance balloons. The tethered balloon Eagle with General Edwin Sumner's staff officer, Lt. Col William Teall ascending to the heights of 900 feet to observe and report the troop movements engaged in the battle of Fredericksburg.
This cottage is an example of an 18th century working man's home and was named for the family that owned it for several generations. A unique feature of the cottage is a central fireplace, more commonly seen in New England.
The dream of Clarence Hill and George Henry was realized when on Sept. 11, 1899, they opened the doors of their new bank at 206 N. Franklin St. Hill came to the city from Manitowac, where he helped organize the First National Bank in 1894, and where he met George Henry, a local dentist and investor. Port Washington had no local banking services as bank failures were common and the time seemed right for their new venture. Undeterred by the great Wisconsin Chair Company Factory fire which nearly leveled the business district only two days after their bank site purchase, the partners proceeded with their plans with assurances from the city and the Chair Factory that the company and downtown would be rebuilt.
The scenery of the region between Split Rock and Beaver Bay is the direct result of important events of early geologic time.
This region's history is long and rich. Father Menard, the Jesuit missionary, wintered near what is now L'Anse in 1660-1661. Near here Father Baraga set up his mission in 1843. He and the head of the neighboring Methodist mission, the Rev. J. H. Pitezel, were good friends. Furs and fish figured prominently in the bay's early history as a source of economic wealth. In the 1880's and 1890's the area's timber was cut with Baraga and Pequaming being the centers of lumbering.
Brown's Brigade.
Lumsden's Alabama Battery.
Bennings's Brigade
Historic Building
This residence is an eclectic example of Queen Anne and Second Empire architecture. Constructed in 1859, the present house was almost completely rebuilt in 1889. John Pinkum was a partner in the Empire Lumber Company.
Point in the line of Fort Sherman,
a mass of native copper weighing 9,392 lbs. found in 1970, buried under three ft. of soil, (glacial till), about 4½ miles southwest of Calumet. Float copper such as this, was torn loose from fissures and lodes by glacial action and together with other rock materials, carried by the ice sheet for great distances before being deposited as glacial debris, or till. The churning, grinding action at the base of the glacier rounded and smoothed the mass of copper, resulting in the lobate form here. The long period of burial, (about 9,000 years), since the cessation of glacial action, accounts for the thorough oxidation of the surface of the copper. The resulting oxidation products are primarily malachite, (green copper carbonate, CuCo3 Cu (OH)2) and cuprite, (red copper oxide,-Cu2O).
