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T h e J e f f e r s o n J o u r n a l

No. 1 Newsletter 1st Q. 2012

NEXT MEETING: January 12, Mt. Brook LibraryReception at 6:30 p.m.; Meeting at 7:00 p.m.

Former Gov. Albert Brewer will speak on the

1962 Jefferson County “Chop Up” Bill

I n 1962 the Alabama Legislature made a serious

attempt to diminish the political influence of

Alabama’s largest county by dividing it into four

separate congressional districts.

Gov. John Patterson vetoed

the bill giving rise to the “9-8

Plan”. It required Alabama’s nine

congressman to run statewide for

eight seats mandated by a loss

of one seat after the 1960 federal census. It would be

low man out. As speaker of the House, Albert Brewer

was a guiding hand in passing the plan and preserving

Jefferson County’s political base.

Newsletter has a New Name and New Look

for the New Year

T he new year has brought a major make-over of

the JCHA newsletter and meeting notice.

Renamed The Jefferson Journal, the expanded

newsletter will feature timely articles and historical

perspectives of interest to members.

Jim Bennett succeeds Bob Kracke as editor. Bennett, a

former reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald, is author

of several local histories on the iron industry and JCHA’s

most recent book, Historic Birmingham & Jefferson County.

Additionally, a four-member editorial board has been

appointed by Chairman Alice Williams to include Tom

West, Tom Badham, Judy Haise and Ed Stevenson. Mr.

Bennett encourages members to write articles or request

others to do so and to send in photographs.

2012 DUES ARE NOW DUE (see page 15 for renewal form)

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President’s Message

A very Happy New Year to one and all. I hope all

of you had a lovely holiday season and are now

looking forward to a new year of enlightening

Historical Association programs, most of which have

already been lined up by Vice President/Program

Chairman Tom Carruthers.

On a board note, in September your board decided

that since we had several important projects underway,

we would all stay in our current jobs for one more year in

order to bring them to successful conclusions. The one

exception is that Bob Kracke has decided to step down as

editor of the Newsletter. Bob has done a wonderful job,

having taken it on at its reincarnation in 2007 and we

all owe him a huge vote of thanks. The Newsletter has

provided us with many excellent articles on local history

as well as serving as the Association’s message center and

meeting reminder. We will be in excellent hands going

forward as Past President Jim Bennett has agreed to take

on the job beginning with this issue. We are planning for

a new look as well as an early delivery. Please personally

thank both Bob and Jim for their fine work.

By now you have also noticed a dues notice in this

newsletter. When we discovered that we were planning

to drop both the newsletter and the dues notice at the

same time, combination of the two made more sense.

The board deeply appreciates your dues support as they

enable us to carry on our many

historical projects as well as

bring you outstanding programs

each quarter. If dues come in

relatively quickly, it helps the

board to better plan and could

possibly offer the opportunity

for an extra event. If you have joined or rejoined within

the past three months, those dues have been credited to

the 2012 year.

Again, many thanks for your support. Hope to see you

January 12, 2012.

- ALICE WILLIAMS

JCHA PRESIDENT

from Jemison Magazine, January 1911

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Of Tuxedo Junction FameWhat was Erskine Hawkins’ Real Name?

By Thomas M. West, Jr.

Y ou all know that one of the most famous songs

that ever came out of Birmingham was “Tuxedo

Junction”. This song, with lyrics by Buddy

Feyne, was released by the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra

(formerly known as the Bama State Collegians). It rose to

the number seven spot on the National Hit Parade.

Glenn Miller had the most successful recording of the

song which he produced on the RCA Bluebird label in

1939. It became the Billboard number one song that year

and sold 115,000 copies in the first week alone.

“Tuxedo Junction” was featured in the 1953 biopic,

“The Glenn Miller Story” starring Jimmy Stewart and

June Allyson which can still be seen on television.

Glenn Miller died mysteriously over the English

Channel in World War II but his “Tuxedo Junction”

recording continued over the years and the Erskine

Hawkins masterpiece lives on. It has also been recorded

by Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Manhattan Transfer

and even Frankie Avalon.

The song Hawkins wrote is about a jazz and blues club

in the Birmingham suburb of Ensley. The area referred

to a street car crossing at Tuxedo Park, hence Tuxedo

Junction.

So, what was Erskine Hawkins’ full name and why? He

was named for famed Birmingham industrialist, inventor

and philanthropist Erskine Ramsay, as in Ramsay High

School. Mr. Ramsay, who had no children and never

married, would give a crisp $100 bill to any mother who

agreed to name her child “Erskine Ramsay.” This has

been confirmed by the Ramsay family.

As Paul Harvey used to say, “now you know the rest of

the story.” His full name was Erskine Ramsay Hawkins.

The Jefferson County Historical Association

THE JEFFERSON JOURNALThis newsletter is published quarterly by and for the benefit

of the membership of the Jefferson County Historical Association. Copyright © 2012 by JCHA. All rights reserved.

Visit us on line and view back issues at www.jeffcohistory.com

Jim Bennett, Editor

Editorial BoardThomas M. West, jr.

Tom BadhamJudy Haise

Dr. Ed StevensonPlease send letters and notices to the editor via email:

[email protected] mail to:

112 Meadow Croft Circle, Birmingham, AL 35242


Ole Davy was Almost One of Usby Jim Bennett

B ut for a quirk of fate, Davy Crockett would

have been a Blount County citizen. Instead he

was killed at the Alamo in 1836.

Here’s how things developed. At the conclusion

of the Creek Indian War settlers, many of them 1812

veterans, began flooding into the state. Davy Crockett

decided to see the area for himself and in the company

of three friends headed for Jonesborough, which is now

Bessemer. Old Jonesboro became the county’s first

important settlement.

Crockett arrived here in the fall of 1816 passing

through Murphrees and Jones Valleys near present day

Birmingham. While exploring, he found a farm site near

Oneonta which he said was “the one spot in the world”

where he would like to make his home. But the party

headed on toward Tuscaloosa down the old Huntsville

Road just to check things out.

While here he is thought to have also visited a cousin,

Williamson Hawkins, one of Jefferson County’s original

pioneers who in the early years lived near Jonesborough.

Travelling through western Jefferson County the

Crockett party passed through Jonesborough and then

Bucksville before making camp near the Warrior River.

During the night their horses broke loose and Davy,

being of an adventurous nature, pursued them on foot

back toward Jonesborough. Finally, exhausted and in the

deep woods, he fell sick and became disoriented. Found

by Indians, he was taken to the farm of Jesse Jones near

the latter day location of the Woodward Iron Company.

“I was kindly received and put to bed,” he recalled.

“I knew little about what was going on for about two

weeks when I began to mend from the treatment (of Mrs.

Jones).”

Crockett said the woman thought he was going to die

of malaria and gave him “a whole bottle of Bateman’s

Drops”, a mixture of 46% alcohol and two grams of

opium per fluid ounce.

After his recovery, the Crockett party travelled back up

the Huntsville Road along a stretch through Midfield then

called “the Stony Lonesome” because of all the limestone

outcroppings. He returned to Tennessee and settled in

Lawrence County in 1817 where he became engaged in

the politics of that state. After two terms in Congress,

he winds up at the Alamo and died fighting Santa

Anna. Maybe he should have stayed in Jefferson County.

(Read more about the king of the wild frontier in Jim Bennett’s

book, Historic Birmingham & Jefferson County.)

Davy Crockett said this portrait looked more like him than any other.


Historic Irondale Commissary on the Market

A n interesting story in the Birmingham News

real estate section regarding the old Irondale

Furnace commissary has caught our attention.

Now refurbished into a home at 4180 Glenbrook

Drive, it is believed to be one of the oldest structures

in Shades Valley. The original hand-hewed log cabin,

thought built between 1820 and 1830, remains a part

of a house which has been expanded to two bedrooms,

two baths, kitchen and a large living room along with a

board-and-batten guest cottage dating to 1860.

The property may have had only five owners, said

RealtySouth Realtor Toody Sullivan, including the

Cahawba Iron Works whose president, W. S. McElwain,

used it as a commissary or company store. He purchased

it from William Cummings in 1863. It was briefly

occupied by the 4th Iowa Veteran Volunteers, a part

of Wilson’s Raid on the Alabama iron industry early in

1865, while the nearby iron furnace was being burnt.

The store escaped the torch.

Historical records show that members of the Eastis

family lived here for over eighty years until it was

purchased by the Edward Beaumonts in 1951. This was

the first store in Shades Valley for the settlers to purchase

supplies. Before this, it was necessary for residents to

make a long trip over Red Mountain down to Elyton,

then the county seat.

After the war, a four-room, pine-floored addition was

added to the log structure which included an original

white coal-burning fireplace. The home sits on a half-acre

of prime real estate bordering Montevallo Road.

And, in case, you are interested the property lists for

$439,000, an investment of which Mr. McElwain, who

was tight with his Confederate dollars, might think very

highly.

The old Irondale Furnace Commissary at 4180 Glenbrook Drive.


Looking for a Sugar Daddy (or Momma)By Jerry Desmond

Director, Birmingham History Center

T he Historical Museum Guide for Alabama lists

fifty-seven different historical museums and

sites in the state on its website. Fifty-six of them

operate out of their own property. Only one of them

leases space in an office building - can you guess which

one? That’s right; it’s the Birmingham History Center.

For the past three years, we have been renting 5,000

square feet at the back of the Young and Vann Building.

These years have been good ones. We built a museum

that gets outstanding reviews. We’ve added to an

impressive collection of local artifacts. This space has

been a good first step. But now, like a recent graduate,

we are ready to move on. We need a building we can

call our own. We are bursting at the seams and we need

to expand. But times are tough for non-profits. Capital

campaigns do not do well in recessions. We need someone

to give us a building.

What could we do with our own building you ask?

Here are our three basic needs:

1. Artifact Storage – we currently only have about 800

square feet for storage. As we are collecting three

additional artifacts each week, by this time next year

we will have 150 more artifacts (many larger than a

bread box) than we have now. We do not know where

we are going to put them.

2. Programming – we currently only have room to put

about 15 chairs together. We cannot even sit a class

of students down in one space. We cannot invite

speakers; we have no place for them to stand. We

cannot show films. We do not have space for hands-

on activities. We have to hold special events in the

hallway and pay a rental fee to our landlord.

3. Exhibits – We only have room to show a small

percentage of our collection. We are limited by space

to a small number of featured stories. We have no

space to bring in traveling or temporary exhibits.

So Mr. or Ms. Sugar, our needs are simple. Find us

a sturdy building downtown in the historic district; say

15 – 20,000 square feet, near some public parking. It

should have some open spaces, not too many windows

and a nice mahogany-walled office suite for the executive

director (I guess that last one is optional). Buy it for us

and take a nice tax deduction. We will name it after you.

How does the Birmingham History Center at the John

Smith Building sound? Too much? How about the Jane

Smith Magic City Exhibit Gallery? It is your chance to

be immortal. It is your chance to put us on par with every

other history museum in Alabama.

A TIP OF THE HAT to Tom West for securing for the Birmingham History Center on loan

from the Alabama Historical Radio Society a rare Superflex radio made in Birmingham in the

1920s. Their society currently has a display in the lobby of the Alabama Power Building, 600

North 18th Street.


Wood-Choppers, Karsts & Steam Dummies:The origins of Highland Avenue

By John Morse

Birmingham History Center Blog

I n January 1884, the city of Birmingham, and its

founder, the Elyton Land Company, were emerging

from a long economic recession. The potential of

the District’s mineral wealth was just beginning to bear

fruit while the young city matured with new public

services like a municipal water system. That system’s

bonds, a debt which threatened the city’s future, had just

been paid off thanks to the civic-minded generosity of

Josiah Morris, James Sloss and Henry Caldwell.

Caldwell, in particular, had reason to be optimistic.

As president of the Elyton Land Company he controlled

the still-unimproved 1,500-acre South Highlands parcel

just south of the city limit at 9th Avenue South. He

tapped the company’s general manager, his brother-in-

law Major Willis Milner, to supervise the planning and

construction of roads and utilities. Most important to

the success of the suburb would be an attractive park and

resort at the terminus of a trolley line which showed the

choicest building sites to their best advantage.

In 1884 those lots were still “primeval forest”, protected

from trespassing “wood-choppers” by armed company

agents. Milner and his cousin, John T. Milner, a railroad

engineer, prepared a large-scale topographical survey of

the entire parcel before setting the route for what would

become Highland Avenue.

In order to make the route navigable by horse-drawn

carriages and mule-drawn trolleys, the road’s grade was

limited to a maximum of 3%, forcing it to wind its

way along the contour lines of the map. The 100-foot-

wide right-of-way was carefully detailed to maximize the

frontage estate lots. Natural depressions in the terrain,

(continued on page 8)

Henry Caldwell, Willis Milner & John Milner


(Continued from 7)

the result of dormant sink holes in the area’s limestone

karst substrate, were reserved as parks and flood

basins. A larger tract, near the eastern end of the

boulevard, was selected for “Lakeview Park”, with an

artificial lake, resort hotel, dance hall, beer garden

and other entertainments, including the county’s

first baseball diamond (the site, in 1893, of the first

ever football game between Alabama and Auburn).

Milner proposed to connect a new trolley service to

the meager existing downtown line. The new tracks

would cross over the Railroad Reservation and into the

South Side at 22nd Street. At 5th Avenue South, the

line would split to reach as far as 15th Street to the west

before returning to Five Points South. The other branch

continued as far east as 29th Street. Those two termini,

within the city’s projected street grid, would then be

connected by the looping new scenic boulevard of

Highland Avenue. The first road construction contracts,

signed in 1884, specified a paved road-bed of 25 feet.

Road construction coincided with the landscaping of

Lakeview Park, whose lake was filled with water piped

in from nearby springs. Work was suspended while the

company awaited a charter from the state legislature

permitting it to construct and operate its proposed public

trolley system. Once that was approved, work resumed

in early 1885. The completed railway was dedicated on

October 1 of that year. The system cost $3,500 per mile

over a 7-mile route and earned about $24,000 for the

company in each of its first few years.

Soon it became evident that the trolley should be

upgraded to steam power, and the 16-pound rails

were removed and replaced with 40-pound rail. The

resulting steam dummy line, the first in the South, was

enormously successful at first, but declined as competing

streetcar resorts opened at East Lake, West Lake and

Edgewood. Meanwhile the company overextended

itself by constructing a belt railroad for the movement

of freight and fell into receivership during the financial

panic of 1899.

A portion of Highland Avenue was included within the

municipal limits of the Town of Highland, incorporated

in 1887. The town graded and curbed that section of

the thoroughfare. Once Birmingham annexed Highland

in 1893, it proceeded to improve the remainder of the

boulevard. The streetcar system continued under the

auspices of the Birmingham Traction Company.

Lakeview Park Overview.


JCHA’s 24th Historical Marker Erected Inside the Alabama Theatre

By Thomas M. West, Jr.

T he latest JCHA historical marker is going up

inside the lobby of the Alabama Theatre, the

Association’s 24th marker.

The Association also erected the marker in 1998 that

stands outside the historical old theatre on Third Avenue,

North built in 1927 noting the “Showplace of the South”

as one of Alabama’s great motion picture theatres.

The inside marker takes note of the many contributions

of Cecil Whitmier and his wife, Linda. Cecil died

recently. His wife, Linda, died earlier.

Upon Mr. Whitmire’s passing, Historical Marker

Committee Chairman Tom West met with Bryant Beene,

the new Alabama Theatre manager, and suggested a bas

relief bronze marker be installed honoring Cecil and

Linda. Unlike other markers, it has a three-dimensional

or bas relief head and shoulders and hand-sculpted

likeness of the Whitmire’s.

Although more costly than the aluminum markers the

JCHA normally erects, funds for the inside marker were

left in Mr. Whitmire’s will. The marker was handcrafted

by Al Delvecchio Enterprises of Troy, Michigan.

From the Jemison Magazine, December 1910.


Entertainment From Yesteryear: Air Shows and Carnivals

By Jim Bennett

B efore television and the web and even major

motion pictures, Jefferson County residents

had an entirely different set of entertainment

venues including Confederate reunions, air shows,

Christmas carnivals, vaudeville and even Mardi Gras

celebrations.

One of the most spectacular downtown events in 1917

was an appearance by Harry Gardiner, “the Human Fly”,

who scaled the outside of the 16-story Empire Building

before a crowd of over 35,000.

Large Mardi Gras events were the rage beginning

in 1886. By 1896 the Birmingham Carnival Society’s

downtown parade attracted 35,000 to 40,000 people.

By 1889 the parade was hit by cold weather. Three days

before the event a blizzard left a foot of snow on the city

and temperatures fell 9 degrees below zero which forced

the carnival to be cancelled. Eventually, the celebration

waned and the last Mardi Gras Ball was held in 1901.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Christmas carnivals

were popular. What began as a ball in 1934 became a

city wide carnival by 1949. These events waned after the

Korean War.

Air shows drew thousands between both world wars.

On May 31, 1931, the Birmingham Airport opened

with pomp, ceremony and the greatest air show that

the city had ever seen. Hundreds came to witness the

Birmingham debut of commercial passenger service with

a stop by American Airways along its Atlanta to Fort

Worth route.

More than 50,000 people attended the 1931 air carnival

and the event, sponsored by the Birmingham Aero Club,

attracted celebrities from far and wide including Jimmy

Doolittle, Roscoe Tanner, Eddie Rickenbacker and

Claire Chennault.

Before World War II Birmingham’s National Air

Carnival was the largest free air show in the United

States. Charles Lindbergh stopped overnight on his

1927 tour of the states, landing at Robert’s Field before

the Municipal Airport was built, an event which also

highlighted local air service.


The Hawes Horror ConclusionBy Tom Badham

(continued from last issue)

A fter the attempted lynching of Richard Hawes,

Major Goldsmith B. West again telegraphed

Alabama Adjutant General A. B. Garlander in

Montgomery for Militia units to keep the peace. Nine

state militia units comprising between four and five

hundred men were immediately sent to Birmingham to

patrol the town. Militia Colonel Thomas Goode Jones

(later governor of Alabama 1890-1894 and a federal judge

afterwards) was put in command of the units.

Headquarters for the units were established in the

new courthouse yard on 21st Street. But, there were

no barracks or quarters for the men. They only had

crude makeshift shelters like a few boards or a sheet of

tin over their heads. The men had to be fed unit by

unit by local restaurants. To make matters worse, several

days of freezing rain began to fall. But the troops did

their duty even though many came down with colds and

pneumonia due to the raw weather.

After arriving late Saturday night and early Sunday

morning the day after the riot, they began patrolling

the city, guarding the jail, padlocking all gun shops

and permitted no gatherings of people on the streets.

However, they didn’t close the saloons (that really would

have caused trouble), but did keep a close eye on them.

The Age-Herald reported, “They recognized their duty to

preserve order and performed that duty well, treating

the citizens firmly but with courtesy and respect.” There

were no further outbreaks of violence.

The Age-Herald reported that “On Sunday afternoon,

(December 9th), the body of May Hawes was, ‘interred

in a pure white casket purchased by the citizens of

Birmingham’ and was taken in a black curtained hearse

and buried in ‘a nice grassy little plot’ near the top of

the hill at Oak Hill Cemetery, within a short distance of

the vault in which her mother’s battered remains were

stored.” However the Atlanta Constitution reported that

James H. Hawes had taken May’s body back to Atlanta to

be buried in the Pettus Burying Ground in the Oakland

Cemetery.

Supposedly very simple funeral services were conducted

by Lockwood & Miller’s mortuary at the Oak Hill

Cemetery. Afraid that any funeral parade or elaborate

services might incite further trouble, city officials kept

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Mr. Hawes


(Continued from page 11)

the services quiet. Also a “neat stone” was purchased for

May’s grave at Block 5, lot 15, but Dr. Hoole found no

record of the burial or marker at Oak Hill.

Also on that Sunday warrants were sworn out for the

arrest of Sheriff Joseph Smith, Police Chief O. A. Pickard

and Police Lieutenant Joe Nix for the murder of Maurice

B. Throckmorton, postmaster. They were duly arrested

and confined to their offices at the courthouse. Over

the next few days even more warrants would be sworn

out against them for deaths of the rioters. Alabama

Governor Thomas Seay arrived in Birmingham on

Monday, December 10th, to personally take control of

the situation after being notified of the arrests.

On Saturday afternoon, December 15th, the body of

Hawes’ younger daughter, Irene, was dragged from the

bottom of Lakeview Park Lake. That night large crowds

again roamed the streets with rumors flying about

dynamite being used against the jail, but no further

trouble erupted.

According to a Birmingham newspaper report, when

Richard Hawes was told by the sheriff of finding his

younger daughter’s body, he looked up from his cell

bunk without the slightest show of emotion. Then he

calmly asked the sheriff for a cigarette. After taking two

or three puffs, he asked where she was found. He then

bowed his head in his hands. Asked whether he had

anything further to say, he shouted an emphatic, “No!”

and turned his face to the wall.

The final chapter of the Hawes

murder mystery will continue in the

next edition of the The Jefferson Journal.

May Hawes

Emma Hawes


Corey Manhole Cover Reflects Fairfield’s Former Life

I nterestingly, some of the manhole covers in

Fairfield still bear the name of the town’s former

name, Corey. They would have had to have been

installed between 1909 and 1913 meaning they are about

100 years old.

Corey was founded by U.S. Steel Corporation in 1909

and named for U.S. Steel President William E. Corey.

The giant steelmaker purchased the Tennessee Coal, Iron

& Railroad Company (TCI) in 1907 and soon thereafter

began planning the new worker village.

The model town was planned as an industrial village

to house the workforce at the soon-to-be built Fairfield

Works. Its name was changed to Fairfield by the company

after William E. Corey’s highly publicized marital

infidelities in 1913. It was called Fairfield after the

Connecticut hometown of another U.S. Steel executive,

James A. Farrell who served as president of U.S. Steel

from 1911 to 1932.

Corey divorced his first wife to marry Mabelle Gilman,

one of the top musical comedy stars on Broadway.

Installation of the manhole covers with the Corey

name on them was done over a six-year period just before

World War I. The village was patterned in part after

another nearby company town, Ensley.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt spoke in

the town’s central plaza (near the park next to City

Hall) during dedication ceremonies. The Fairfield mill

continues to be operated by U.S. Steel as one of its five

integrated steel mills in the United States.

Among Fairfield notables are baseball’s Willie Mays

who graduated from Fairfield Industrial High School

in 1950 and actor George Lindsey (“The Andy Griffith

Show“) who was born in Fairfield in 1935. Development

of the City of Corey was a prime undertaking of real

estate developer Robert Jemison, Jr.

Thanks to Lucy R. Nash, the mayor’s executive assistant at Fairfield City Hall for this photo.

Shades Valley Sun, 1955.


Historic Birmingham andJefferson CountyBy James R. Bennett $45 (member discount)

Elyton Land CompanyMinute Books, 1871-1895Edited by Thomas M. West, Jr. $35

History of Jefferson CountyBefore 1850By Will F. Franke $33

Other Source Publications co-sponsored by the JCHA:• Tannehill and the Growth of the Alabama Iron Industry — James R. Bennett, Alabama Historic Ironworks

Commission, 1999, available at www.tannehill.org, $45.

• The Valley and the Hills, an Illustrated History of Birmingham and Jefferson County — Leah Rawls Atkins, Windsor

Publications, 1981, available at the Birmingham Public Library Southern History Department, http://www.

bplonline.org/resources/genealogy/doc/RegionalBooks.pdf, $30

Jefferson County Historical Association BooksAll Prices include tax. Add $5 per book S/H; $2 for each additional book.

Please make checks payable to JCHA and send them to:

Harry Bradford, Treasurer P. O. Box 130285 Birmingham, AL 35213-0285

Name: _______________________________________

Address: _____________________________________

City / State / Zip: ______________________________

Phone: ______________________________________

E –Mail ______________________________________


2012 JCHA Membership / Renewal Form Please remember to renew your membership in January. You may use this form also as an initial application for

membership. A membership directory will be distributed at a future meeting.

First Name: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Last Name: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Mailing Address: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

City / State / Zip _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Telephone: Home _________________________________ Work / Cell _________________________________

E-mail: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Please check the category of membership that you prefer:

Single $20 Couple $30 Patron $250 Benefactor $500 $ _____ Other

In Addition, I want to contribute to:

$ ___________ Historical Marker Fund

$ ___________ JCHA Archives / Artifacts

$ ___________ Birmingham History Center

Contributions are tax deductible. Total Enclosed: $ __________________

Please make checks payable to JCHA and send them to:

Harry Bradford, Treasurer

P. O. Box 130285

Birmingham, AL 35213-0285

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History of the JCHAThe Jefferson County Historical Association is dedicated to preserving and publicizing local history through regular meetings, publications and events. Founded in 1975 to promote historical preservation efforts, the society has grown to more than 400 members.

Par t i c ipa te in JCHA sponsor ed event s

Officers:

Alice McSpadden Williams President

Thomas N. Carruthers, Jr. Vice-President

George L. Jenkins Secretary

Harry E. Bradford Treasurer

Founders: Rucker Agee, Lane Carter, Elizabeth Cooper, Chriss Doss Paul H. Earle, Robert Montgomery Margaret Sizemore, George Stewart J. Morgan Smith, Richard J. Stockham, James F. Sulzby, Jr., S. Vincent Townsend, Henry Tuttle

Board of Directors: Cathy Criss Adams Craig Allen, Jr. Thomas E. Badham Jim Bennett Jeanne B. Bradford Herbert F. Griffin Judy S. Haise Ann B. Hillhouse Robert R. Kracke Carolyn H. Reich Barbara (Babs) Simpson Edward W. Stevenson, MD Thomas M. West, Jr.

Past Presidents: J. Morgan Smith Margaret D. Sizemore Elmer C. Thuston, Jr. Chriss Doss Betsy Bancroft Tillman W. Pugh William A. Price Thomas M. West, Jr. Madge D. Jackson Thad G. Long Don G. Watkins Fred M. Jackson III Thomas O. Caldwell, MD Charles A. Speir Craig Allen, Jr. Edward W. Stevenson, MD Jim Bennett

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