Exploring Montgomery

The storytelling continues… a collection of stories and photos from Exploring Montgomery!

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Standing in the shadow of our State Capital. Albert was elected State attorney general in 1953 on a platform to clean up Phoenix City, an Alabama den of sin and inequity that served Ft Benning, Georgia, the huge Army base just across the river from PC. The Phoenix City mob […]

Albert Patterson

August 4, 2017 in Places and Things tagged albert / attorny general / patterson

Doctor Blue House — The Doctors Blue House . . . That’s what I named it, because Dr John H Blue and Dr George Blue both lived here in the early part of the 1900s, descendants of the Henry Blue family, subjects of Ms Neeley’s recent publication, “The Works of Matthew Blue”. I could […]

Doctors Blue House

February 17, 2017 in Residential tagged blair / blue / colonial georgian / doctor / patterson

State Capitol — The State Capitol was built by the City of Montgomery in 1847 (it burned two years later and was rebuilt from the same plans) to house the fledging State government, then only 27 years old. What a rich history it has! The Succession Convention of 1860; the organization of the Confederacy; the […]

State Capitol Complex

June 27, 2016 in Government tagged aerial / capitol / confederate / jefferson davis / patterson / sims / wyeth