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Twickingham Station

Back: Twickenham Station, 509 Williams Ave., Huntsville, Alabama 35801, 205-536-6253
Directly across from the Von Braun civic center, featuring late 1800 saloon, wide selection salad bar and the finest steaks and seafoods enjoyed in authentic rail car dining rooms.

First National Bank

Front: First National Bank, Huntsville, Ala.

National Bank

Front: National Bank, Huntsville, Ala.

First National Bank

Front: First National Bank, Huntsville, Ala.

Confederate Monument

Front: Confederate Monument - Huntsville, Ala.

Mosaic Depicting Madison County History

Back: Madison County Courthouse, Huntsville, Alabama.
Depicting the history of the county on one million pieces of painted glass.

First National Bank

Front: First National Bank, Huntsville, Ala.

First National Bank

Front: First National Bank, Huntsville, Ala.
Back: The First National Bank building high on the Limestone bluff above Huntsville's historic Big Spring stands proud, essentially the same as it was in 1835 when constructed. It is a handsome reflection of the past in the center of a most ambitious urban redevelopment program, Huntsville's Central City Plan.

First National Bank Building

Back: FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, Huntsville, Alabama.
For more than 100 years this beautiful building has stood as an architectural and financial landmark on a high limestone bluff, overlooking the Big Spring. It was used as a Commissary by Federal Troops during Huntsville's occupation in 1862.

First National Bank Building

Back: First National Bank Building, Huntsville, Alabama
This building has been a landmark for over a century. The very same hold-up-proof cashier's cages of today were used as detention cells in 1835 where slaves were impounded for the debts of their masters.

First National Bank

Front: First National Bank, Huntsville, Ala.

Huntsville Hospital

Front: Huntsville Hospital - Huntsville, Ala.

Negro Baptizing, Big Spring Branch

Front: Negro Baptizing, Big Spring Branch, Huntsville, Ala.

Street Scene - Huntsville, Ala.

Front: Street Scene - Huntsville, Ala.

Carnegie Library

Front: Carnegie Library - Huntsville, Ala.

Famous Big Spring

Front: Famous Big Spring - Huntsville, Alabama - Water Supply 24,000,000 gallons daily
Back: Compliments of Monroe Printing Company, Huntsville, Alabama
It's a Beautiful World in Huntsville.

Negro Baptising

Front: Negro Baptising, Huntsville, Ala.

Big Spring in Winter

Front: Big Spring in Winter, Huntsville, Ala.

Capacity Twenty-Five Million Gallons Daily.

Front: Big Spring: Capacity Twenty-Five Million Gallons Daily.

Big Spring at Huntsville

Front: BIG SPRING AT HUNTSVILLE
This magnificent natural spring long known to the Indians brought the first settler into Madison County and the village of Huntsville of 1816 was the result. It is just under the hill from the Court House and the heart of town.
Back: ALABAMA'S HISTORICAL FESTIVAL AND PAGEANT, Montgomery, May 5th and 6th, featuring "THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH", $10,000 Night Spectacle, 3,000 - Cast - 3,000

City Park and Falls

Front: City Park and Falls. Twenty-Four Million Gallons per Day.

Huntsville Springs

Front: Huntsville Springs.

The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.

Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.

The Spring and Ford

Front: The Spring and Ford, Huntsville, Ala.

Big Spring

Front: Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.

Big Spring

Front: Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.

The Huntsville Big Spring

Front: The Huntsville Big Spring, Capacity 20,000,000 gallons daily, Huntsville, Ala.

Big Spring

Front: Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.

Huntsville Spring with Cotton Row Buildings

Front: Huntsville, Ala. Huntsville Spring

The Big Spring

Back: THE BIG SPRING, Huntsville, Alabama. This spring located near the center of Huntsville, has furnished the water supply of Huntsville since its earliest days, and formed the nucleus for the South's first - and the nation's second - public waterworks system. This space has become world famous.

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