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Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Cathedral of St. Paul
2120 3rd Ave. N, Birmingham, ALABAMA 35203
Established 1872
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Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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"1871: A small group of planters, investors, and railroad men organize the Elyton Land Company to buy 4,150 acres of raw land and to create an industrial center.
1872: Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer sends a deacon to establish an Episcopal mission in the new town. Philip Fitts arrives to serve congregations in Elyton and Irondale along with the sixteen Episcopalians he reports in Birmingham. Elyton Land Company deeds to the Episcopal Church one quarter of a choice downtown block for five dollars.
1873: A frame church building seating 200 is constructed facing Sixth Avenue (near the location of the present Rector’s Garden). In the first decade, the Church of the Advent has six different rectors (three of whom served a year or less).
1882: The Rev. Thomas Jefferson Beard begins his fourteen-year ministry.
1887: The foundation is laid for a new church structure.
1893: The church in which we worship today is completed..."
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Church of Advent, Birmingham, Ala.
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Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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1872 - Cathedral of St. Paul established in Birmingham
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1891 - Mangled to Death.BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 29. - At the State Fair grounds today S. E. Gambee jumped from a dummy before it...Read MORE...
1900 - BIG LOSS. Fire in Alabama Does Damage to the Extent of Many Thousands.Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 23. - An explosion of a gasoline stove in the basement of the Metropolitan...Read MORE...
1900 - FALLING BUILDING KILLS TWO. Eleven Others Injured, Two Mortally, in an Accident at Birmingham, Ala.Birmingham, Ala., April 28. - By the collapse of the framework of the main building of the Dimmick...Read MORE...
1902 - OVER ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN CHURCH DISASTERThe negro population of Birmingham, Ala., is in mourning, and a gloom has been cast over the entire ...Read MORE...
1908 - EIGHT CARS GO INTO RIVER. Bridge Over Cahaba River Knocked Down But No Lives Lost.Birmingham, May 19. - (Special.) - The steel bridge over Cahaba River, about fifteen miles east of...Read MORE...
1916
Birmingham, a city, capital of Jefferson co., Ala., on the Central R. of Georgia, the Kansas City,...Read MORE...
Birmingham, a city, capital of Jefferson co., Ala., on the Central R. of Georgia, the Kansas City,...Read MORE...
1925 - 48 DEAD TAKEN FROM SHAFT OF ALABAMA MINE. FIVE ADDITIONAL BODIES BELIEVED IN OVERTON PLANT NO. 2 FOLLOWING EXPLOSION. MULE'S TAIL SAVES NEGRO. WORKER BLINDED BY FLASH GRABS APPENDAGE AND IS DRAGGED TO OPEN.Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 11. - Twenty-six bodies were brought up from the recesses of the Overton...Read MORE...
January 30, 1936 - Birmingham, AL, established a single storm record and 24 hour record with 11 inches of snow. (29th-30th)
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1948 - May 1 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"www.historyorb.com/ countries/ usa/ alabama/ birmingham
May 1, 1948
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Neva CAMPBELL
(11 August 1890, Birmingham, Alabama, USA - 1984, La Mirada, California, USA)
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Ancestors Who Died Here
Alice Amanda STEPHENSON
(6 October 1860, , Georgia, USA - 22 May 1923, Birmingham, Alabama, USA)
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
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Joseph A MCCLURE (16 July 1810 - 2 November 1855) &
Patience Elizabeth MCCLAIN (5 February 1820 - 2 March 1896)
married 29 October 1835 |
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