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Timeline Of Birmingham, Alabama
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 19th century * 1871 ** Birmingham founded and incorporated. ** Robert Henley becomes mayor. * 1874 ** Birmingham becomes seat of Jefferson County. ** First Colored Baptist Church founded. ** Cholera epidemic. ** ''Birmingham Iron Age'' newspaper in publication. * 1880 - Population: 3,086. * 1881 - ''Alabama Christian Advocate'' newspaper begins publication. * 1882 ** Sloss Furnace begins operating. ** O'Brien's Opera House opens. * 1887 - Howard College active in East Lake. * 1888 - '' Evening News'' and '' Birmingham Age-Herald'' newspapers in publication. * 1890 ** Population: 26,178. ** ''Labor Advocate'' newspaper begins publication. * 1891 - Birmingham Commercial Club incorporated. * 1893 ** Cathedral of Saint Paul built. ** St. Mark's School opens. * 1895 ** Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company headquarters relocated to Birmingham. ** Birmingham Conservatory of Music established. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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:''Related: :Urban planning in the United States'' {{CatAutoTOC, numerals=no *Timeline united states City A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ... city history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensley (Birmingham)
Ensley is a large city neighborhood in Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It was once a separate and thriving industrial city. It was formally incorporated on February 12, 1899, but later annexed into Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham on January 1, 1910, under the "Greater Birmingham" legislation. History The community was founded in 1886 by Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis entrepreneur, Enoch Ensley, as a new industrial city on the outskirts of a rapidly developing Birmingham (then just 15 years old) and directly adjacent to the Pratt coal seam. Zealously promoting and investing his own wealth in the project, Ensley soon attracted the interest of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (TCI), which bought a controlling interest in the Ensley Land Company. In the first year of development, sanitary engineer Edwin Waring, Jr. of Rhode Island was contracted to lay out the new city's streets and infrastructure, including an early application of sepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAPI (AM)
WAPI (1070 Hertz, kHz, "Talk 99-5, Birmingham's Real Talk") is a commercial radio, commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama. It is owned by Cumulus Media. Until going silent (broadcasting), silent in 2025, it carried a talk radio, news/talk radio format, format, simulcast with FM broadcasting, FM sister station 99.5 WZRR. The radio studios and offices are on Goodwin Crest Drive in Homewood, Alabama, Homewood. WAPI and WZRR carried local talk shows during the day, but at night they ran Radio syndication, nationally syndicated shows from co-owned Westwood One including ''The Mark Levin Show, America at Night with Rich Valdés'' and ''Red Eye Radio.'' Most hours began an update from ABC News Radio. The stations were also Central Alabama's radio home of Auburn Tigers athletics. WAPI broadcasts using HD Radio technology. The transmitter is located in Forestdale, Alabama, Forestdale. WAPI's daytime power is 50,000 watts, omnidirectional antenna, non-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 United States Census
The 1920 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau during one month from January 5, 1920, determined the resident population of the United States to be 106,021,537, an increase of 15.0 percent over the 92,228,496 persons enumerated during the 1910 census. The 1920 Census was determined for 1 January 1920. The actual date of the enumeration appears on the heading of each page of the census schedule, but all responses were to reflect the individual's status as of 1 January, even if the status had changed between 1 January and the day of enumeration. Despite the constitutional requirement that House seats be reapportioned to the states respective of their population every ten years according to the census, members of Congress failed to agree on a reapportionment plan following this census, and the distribution of seats from the 1910 census remained in effect until 1933. In 1929, Congress passed the Reapportionment Act of 1929 which provided for a permanent method of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Farmer
''Progressive Farmer'' is an agricultural magazine, published 14 times a year by DTN. The magazine is based in Birmingham, Alabama. History Founded in Winston, North Carolina, in 1886 by North Carolina native Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837–1892; a Confederate Army veteran who is often confused with CSA General Leonidas Polk, no relation), the publication was intended to bring the latest information on crop and livestock production to the reunited nation's agrarian economy in the Southeast. After Polk died in 1892, Clarence H. Poe from Raleigh, NC, took over as editor in 1899, and in 1903, he and three partners purchased the publication, taking it from a newspaper to a magazine with 36,000 subscribers by 1908. One of the most notable achievements of the magazine was its continual crusade and endorsement during the early twentieth century of the land grant college subsidies provided to Agricultural and Mechanical colleges across the United States. Merger with ''Southern Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham–Southern College
Birmingham–Southern College (BSC) was a private liberal arts college in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 1856, the college was affiliated with the United Methodist Church and was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The college's student body was approximately 975 students when it closed at the end of the 2023–24 school year after years of financial trouble. History Birmingham–Southern College was the result of a 1918 merger of Southern University, founded in Greensboro, Alabama in 1856, with Birmingham College, opened in 1898 in Birmingham, Alabama. These two institutions were consolidated on May 30, 1918, under the name of Birmingham–Southern College. Phi Beta Kappa recognized Birmingham–Southern in 1937, establishing the Alabama Beta chapter. In the 21st century, the school suffered from financial troubles, due to errors in accounting and dwindling enrollment. Although the school explored many avenues to keep the school open, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civitan International
Civitan International, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is an association of community service clubs founded in 1917. The organization aims "to build good citizenship by providing a volunteer organization of clubs dedicated to serving individual and community needs with an emphasis on helping people with developmental disabilities." The organization includes 40,000 members (referred to as ''Civitans'') in almost 1,000 clubs around the world. History In 1917, a group of Birmingham, Alabama, businessmen were members of the local Rotary club. Many of the men thought that the club focused too much on increasing the business of club members, so they surrendered their club's charter. Led by Courtney Shropshire, a local doctor, they formed an independent service club named ''Civitan'', derived from the Latin word for ''citizenship''. The United States entered World War I just one month after the club formed. With all attention focused on the war, Civitan remained a local organization. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian terrorism, Christian extremist, white supremacist, Right-wing terrorism, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction era, Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first Terrorism, terrorist group.Fergus Bordewich. (2023). ''Klan War: Ulysses S Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction''. Penguin Random House The group contains several organizations structured as a secret society, which have frequently resorted to terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation to impose their criteria and oppress their victims, most notably African Americans, Jews, and Catholics. A leader of one of these organizations is called a Grand Wizard, grand wizard, and there have been three distinct iterations with various other targets relative to time and place. The first Klan was established in the Reconstruction era for me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Irondale Earthquake
The 1916 Irondale earthquake struck in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Alabama on October 18. The strongest earthquake in state history, it registered an estimated Richter scale magnitude of 5.1 and resulted in minor damage. Damage was limited to Shelby and Jefferson counties and reached its maximum severity near the epicenter in the city of Irondale, including cracked windows, fallen chimneys, and dried-up wells. While there were no fatalities, the earthquake spawned widespread panic, prompting alarmed workers to evacuate tall buildings. The earthquake originated in the Eastern Tennessee seismic zone, a fault noted for earthquakes of moderate magnitude. Faulting in the area is strike-slip-oriented, probably because of the Alabama-New York Lineament, which runs adjacent to the seismic zone. Several scientists believe that small earthquakes from the zone indicate the reactivation of deep, ancient faults. Alabama has seen roughly 20 earthquakes since the beginn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Federal Building
The City Federal Building (originally the Comer Building) is a skyscraper located on Second Avenue North in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built in 1913 and was designed by architect William C. Weston. It stands 27 stories or 325 feet on the Birmingham skyline. At the time it was completed it was the tallest building in the Southeastern United States, Southeast. It was the tallest building in Alabama from 1913 to 1969, and the tallest in Birmingham, Alabama until 1972. Currently, it is the 5th tallest building in Birmingham. It is still the tallest Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical building in the south. The penthouse suite of the building was the longtime home of WAGG, WSGN Radio, at 610 AM, once one of the most powerful and popular Top 40 radio stations in the south. It has since been converted into commercial space and high end condominiums. On December 14, 2005, the City Federal Building's famous red neon sign was re-lit for the first time since the mid-1990s, signaling t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hand Building
John Hand Building is a mixed-use high rise building in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, with a height of . It was the tallest building in the city until surpassed by the City Federal Building in 1913. It comprises 20 floors and was completed in 1912. ''See also:'' The lower eight floors are for commercial use and the upper twelve floors are for residential use. In 1983, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist .... From the time of its construction and up until the mid-1990s, the building had been owned and occupied by AmSouth Bancorporation and its predecessors. After AmSouth relocated employees to its other downtown offices and its Riverchase Campus, the building was sold to a group of developers. In 2000, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 United States Census
The 1910 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 census. The 1910 census switched from a portrait page orientation to a landscape orientation. This was the last census in which Texas did not record any top 50 largest cities by population, despite being the 5th most populous state at the time. It was also the first census in which all the top 50 largest cities had population over 100,000. The 1910 census was the first to use metropolitan districts, the predecessor to modern metropolitan statistical areas, which were defined for all cities with at least 200,000 people. Organization Dr. Edward Dana Durand, then-head of the Bureau of Corporations, was appointed in 1909 to oversee the census. $14 million were allocated to conduct the census. Census questions The 1910 census collected the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
