Public Square Historic District
The Public Square Historic District is a historic district in Scottsboro, Alabama, United States. Although Scottsboro had been the county seat of Jackson County since 1870, the town's earliest commercial development was centered on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad line, one block north of the square.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center and Scottsboro Municipal Airport-Word Field.
Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center
Museum
The Scottsboro Boys Museum is located at 428 West Willow Street in Scottsboro, Alabama, in the United States. Its focus is on the Scottsboro Boys case, which involved nine young African American men falsely accused in 1931 of raping two white women while hoboing aboard a freight train.
Scottsboro Municipal Airport-Word Field
Aerodrome
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Scottsboro Municipal Airport, also known as Word Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles northeast of the central business district of Scottsboro, a city in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Scottsboro Municipal Airport-Word Field is situated 2 miles northeast of Public Square Historic District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scottsboro and Hollywood.
Scottsboro
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Scottsboro is in the Mountains region of Alabama and is the seat of Jackson County, having enlivened a railroad mode of commerce there. It is a memorial to a seemingly rare instance where civil rights prevailed in the otherwise rather torn history of equality in this country, in a case known as the Scottsboro Boys.
Hollywood
Village
Hollywood is a town in Jackson County, northeast Alabama, United States. In 2020, the census showed a population of 914 residents. Hollywood is considered a suburb of Scottsboro, the county seat. Hollywood is situated 5 miles northeast of Public Square Historic District.
Public Square Historic District
- Type: Area
- Description: historic district in Scottsboro, Alabama, USA
- Categories: city center and historic district
- Location: Jackson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Public Square Historic District” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Public Square Historic District”
- Spanish: “Distrito historico de la plaza publica”
- Spanish: “Distrito histórico de la plaza pública”
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Localities in the Area
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