Places and Things




This historic water tank is one of Downtown Montgomery’s last and also the most unique. While also being older than a century, this water tank is still operational and grounded so all the tourists and locals can visit! This historic site was not always “grounded,” The Alleyway Tank was engineered […]

Alleyway Tank



The flags form the circular drive which enables dignitaries to be dropped off at the South Entrance to our State Capitol. Each pole displays the State Flag of a sister state, and at the bottom of each pole is a native stone of that State engraved with its name. The […]

Avenue of Flags


Those who have missed it all, should revisit the Riverfront! The City has put tourist-friendly signs everywhere, black lamp posts, black bollards, even an arch sign over the old cotton-bale tunnel leading down to a former river steamer wharf. I think the sign was inspired by the 1910 sign that […]

Riverfront






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…placed on the Capitol Grounds by the Daughter’s of the American Revolution in 1925 to acknowledge General Marquis de La Fayette’s service during the Revolution, and to commemorate his visit to Montgomery 100 years earlier. According to family records and keepsakes, my wife’s gggg-GF came from France with the General […]

The LaFayette Rock



















Alley tank
I love the idea of the downtown Alley Bars and nightlife, but I’m having a hard time with Jeff’s tank. Pity the poor Architectural Review Board, which had to rule on it as appropriate for a historic district (of which I was a member at its inception a half-century ago). […]

The Alleyway Tank



Desoto Rock
The de Soto Rock monument is appropriately ensconced within the Academic Circle at Maxwell, directly in front of the History Building. The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto trekked through these parts circa 1540, and supposedly he encamped on the river bluff site that ultimately became Maxwell AFB. -Charles Humphries

De Soto Rock Monument





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This is what made EastChase possible. The view is of the South terminus of the I-85 Interstate, as it intersects I-65, but this was the artery that changed Montgomery’s growth from Southeast to East. No event has had more impact on our city (nor on our nation, for that matter) […]

Interstate 85