Water Avenue Historic District
The Water Avenue Historic District is a 10-acre historic district in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States. It is centered on Water Avenue in downtown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edmund Pettus Bridge and Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general, U.S. senator, and state-level leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.
Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Selma, Alabama, United States. This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and, as the meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Selma Movement, played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
National Voting Rights Museum
Museum
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Selma.
Selma
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Selma is a city in Alabama. Selma has the distinction of being a notable place in the pages of history, for its role in the Civil War and doubly-so for its role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Water Avenue Historic District
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: historic district in Alabama, United States
- Categories: historic district, historic site, and locality
- Location: Dallas, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.40795° or 32° 24′ 29″ northLongitude
-87.01424° or 87° 0′ 51″ westElevation
131 feet (40 metres)Open location code
864JCX5P+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 358985312OpenStreetMap feature
historic=districtOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4096479Wikidata ID
Q14679597
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Water Avenue Historic District” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Water Avenue Historic District”
- Spanish: “Distrito histórico de Water Avenue”
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