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West Selma Historic District is a national historic district located at Selma, Johnston County, North Carolina.It encompasses 217 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structures in predominantly residential section of Selma.
Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, [1] in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River , the city has a population of 17,971 as of the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Dallas County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama.As of the 2020 census, its population was 38,462. [1] The county seat is Selma. [2] Its name is in honor of United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas, who served from 1814 to 1816.
The hospital occupied the building until 1960, when a new hospital building was completed on West Dallas Avenue. The building sat vacant and neglected until 1969, when the City of Selma, Dallas County, and the Selma Housing Authority purchased it for $82,500. This was done under the leadership of Joseph T. Smitherman, the mayor of Selma at the ...
The Old Town Historic District is a 323-acre (131 ha) historic district in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States. It is bounded by U.S. Route 80, Broad and Franklin streets, and Dallas and Selma avenues. The boundaries were increased on December 15, 2003.
These included Generals Forrest, Armstrong, and Roddey. To the west, many Confederate soldiers continued to fight the pursuing Union soldiers to the eastern side of Valley Creek. They then escaped in the darkness by swimming the Alabama River near the mouth of Valley Creek (where the present-day Battle of Selma Reenactment is held.)
It was the first killing of an officer in Selma’s 130-year history, officials said. ... Selma Police and CHP officers walk east along Rose Avenue just west of 99 after a shooting incident ...
The Western Railway of Alabama (WRA) also seen as "WofA" [1] was created as the Western Railroad of Alabama by the owners of the Montgomery & West Point Railroad (M&WP) in 1860. It was built to further the M&WP's development West from Montgomery, Alabama to Selma, Alabama.