Mountain Creek is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States.
Mountain Creek, Alabama | |
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 1922 fire insurance map of Mountain Creek | |
  Mountain Creek, Alabama Location within the state of Alabama  Mountain Creek, Alabama Mountain Creek, Alabama (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 32°42′38″N 86°28′44″W / 32.71056°N 86.47889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Chilton |
| Elevation | 528 ft (161 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 205, 659 |
| GNIS feature ID | 152547[1] |
Confederate Memorial Park
editMountain Creek was the site of the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home from 1902 to 1939, now the Confederate Memorial Park. The 102-acre (0.41 km2) park has a museum, research facility, historic structures, ruins and two cemeteries with the graves of over 300 Confederate soldiers.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "Mountain Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Dale Cox, "Confederate Memorial Park - Mountain Creek, Alabama" in ExploreSouthernHistory.com at http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/confederatepark.html (accessed January 25, 2010).
- ^ R. B. Rosenburg, Living Monuments: Confederate Soldier's Homes in the New South (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993), 215, says the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, has cemetery rosters, insurance papers, and superintendent reports.
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