Mountain Creek, Alabama

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Coordinates: 32°42′38″N 86°28′44″W / 32.71056°N 86.47889°W / 32.71056; -86.47889 Mountain Creek is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States.

Confederate Memorial Park

It was the site of the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home from 1902 to 1939, which is now the Confederate Memorial Park. The 102-acre (0.41 km2) park has a museum, research facility, historic structures, ruins and two cemeteries with the graves of over 300 Confederate soldiers.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Dale Cox, "Confederate Memorial Park - Mountain Creek, Alabama" in ExploreSouthernHistory.com at http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/confederatepark.html (accessed January 25, 2010).
  2. ↑ R. B. Rosenburg, Living Monuments: Confederate Soldier's Homes in the New South (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993), 215, says the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, has cemetery rosters, insurance papers, and superintendent reports.
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