Jefferson County Historical Association

The Jefferson County Historical Association (originally the Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society) is an organization founded in 1975 to promote historic preservation projects in Jefferson County. The group holds quarterly meetings, publishes occasional books and a newsletter, and sponsors the installation of outdoor historic markers.

The association is governed by a 16-member board and led by chairman and president Alice Williams.

Publications

• Bennett, James R. (2008) Historic Birmingham and Jefferson County: An Illustrated History. San Antonio, Texas: Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society/Historical Publishing Network. ISBN 9781893619838
• West, Thomas M. Jr, ed ( ) The Elyton Land Company Minute Books, 1871-1895
• Franke, Will (1950) The History of Jefferson County Before 1850. Rpt. 2007 by Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society
• Bennett, James R. (1999) Tannehill and the Growth of the Alabama Iron Industry including the Civil War in West Alabama. Alabama Historic Ironworks series. Alabama Historic Ironworks Commission. ISBN 0967445515

• Snell, Helen Pittman (1990) Crestline, a Timeless Neighborhood. Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society
• Bennett, James R. (1986) Old Tannehill, a History of the Pioneer Ironworks in Roupes Valley (1829-1865). Jefferson County Historical Commission
• Lackmond, Catherine M. (1985) Arlington Reminiscences. Jefferson County Historical Commission
• Atkins, Leah Rawls (1981) The Valley and the Hills: An Illustrated History of Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama. Birmingham: Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society. ISBN 0897810317
• Satterfield, Carolyn Green (1976) Historic Sites of Jefferson County, Alabama. Birmingham: Jefferson County Historical Commission/Gray Printing Company
• Smith, J. Morgan (1975) Birmingham’s Half Century pamphlet. Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society,

Historical markers

Since Tom West initiated the program in 1992, the JCHA has erected 20 cast aluminum historical markers throughout Jefferson County:

• Independent Presbyterian Church
• Little Theatre
• Alabama Theatre
• Shades Valley High School
• Mountain Brook
• Homewood
• Rosedale
• Hollywood
• Edgewood
• Briarwood Presbyterian Church
• Will Franke, early Mountain Brook Village
• St Vincent's Hospital
• "Oldest House in Shades Valley", Irondale Furnace Commissary
• Union Hill Cemetery, Union Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, Union Hill School
• Lane Park
• Birmingham Water Works, Cahaba Pumping Station
• Irondale Furnace, Wallace McElwain
• The Old Mill, Robert Jemison, Jr
• Brock's Gap, South & North Railroad
• Canterbury United Methodist Church
• Edgewood Lake

External links

• Jefferson County Historical Association website