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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 for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map.
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 ...
Athens is a city in and the county seat of Limestone County, in the U.S. state of Alabama; it is included in the Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city is 25,406.
Andrew Shearer, Athens Banner-Herald March 13, 2024 at 4:05 AM A group of Athens, Ga.-based musicians formed Irish folk-rock project Fawney Rig to play a series of concerts at local bars in honor ...
The Athens Courthouse Square Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Athens, Alabama. Athens was founded in 1818 when Robert Beaty and John D. Carroll began selling tracts of land. The following year, the town was chosen as the county seat of the newly formed Limestone County.
The railroad was built in 1859 by the Tennessee and Alabama Central Railroad linking Nashville, Tennessee and Decatur, Alabama. [4] The railroad right-of-way was abandoned in April 1986. [ 4 ] Limestone County Parks and Recreation Board (established in 1992) adopted the efforts of Richard Martin to create the trail and its trail heads.
Map of Athens Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. The Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle, also known as the Battle of Athens, was fought near Athens, Alabama (Limestone County, Alabama), from September 23 to 25, 1864 as part of the American Civil War. [5]
Old Town Fort Collins, in Fort Collins, Colorado, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] By roughly the same official name, "Old Town Historic District", it is also the name of an overlapping, larger, local landmark historic district designated in 1972, and "Old Town" is informally a term for a much larger area.