Veterens Memorial Park

Veterens Memorial Park is a recreation area in Jackson, Alabama. Veterens Memorial Park is situated nearby to the recreation area Bynum Park, as well as near Scottsboro Dog Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center.

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 Boys Museum and Cultural Center is situated 1½ miles north of Veterens Memorial Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scottsboro and Section.

Scottsboro

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

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.

Section

Village

Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.

Section is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States and is included in the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Section had a population of 756. Section is located on top of Sand Mountain. Section is situated 6 miles southeast of Veterens Memorial Park.

Veterens Memorial Park

Type: Recreation area
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Jackson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.65157° or 34° 39′ 6″ north

Longitude

-86.04249° or 86° 2′ 33″ west

Open location code

866MMX25+J2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 665692847

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=recreation_ground

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bynum Park and Scottsboro Dog Park.

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