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Location of Limestone County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Limestone County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Limestone County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
This list of cemeteries in Alabama includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Robert Beaty Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Robert Beaty was one of the original founders of Athens. An Irish immigrant who settled in Virginia, Beaty and his associates purchased 160 acres (65 ha) around a spring, and began subdividing the land for sale in 1818. A small village of log structures had formed by ...
Sir Henry Spry (died 1627) Arthur Spry (1612–1685), MP for St Mawes; William Spry (born ca. 1663), barrister of Middle Temple; Sir Richard Spry (1715–1775), Rear Admiral of the Red, as Rear-Admiral of the White conferred knighthood, 24 June 1773 on board HMS Barfleur by King George III [1] Promoted Rear Admiral of the Red on 31 March 1775 [2]
The George S. Houston Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. The district lies to the west and north of the public square, and features homes of some of the town's most prominent residents. Development began in the district soon after the town was founded in 1818; there are five homes remaining from the antebellum period.
Athens was the home of Governor George S. Houston, Alabama's first post-Reconstruction Democratic governor, who served from 1874 through 1878. Houston was noted for reducing the debts incurred to benefit private railroad speculators and others by his Reconstruction Republican predecessors. [ 14 ]
Constance Spry OBE (née Fletcher, previously Marr; 5 December 1886 – 3 January 1960) was a British educator, florist and author in the mid-20th century. Life [ edit ]
Sinclair Hood, 103, British archaeologist, director of the British School at Athens (1980–1997). [705] Tony Ingle, 68, American basketball coach (BYU Cougars, Kennesaw State Owls, Dalton State Roadrunners), COVID-19. [706] Thorsten Johansson, 70, Swedish Olympic sprinter . [707] Lubomir Kavalek, 77, Czech-American Hall of Fame chess grandmaster.