Mountain Creek, Alabama Explained

Official Name:Mountain Creek, Alabama
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:Alabama#USA
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within the state of Alabama
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Coordinates:32.7106°N -86.4789°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Name1:Alabama
Subdivision Name2:Chilton
Elevation Ft:528
Timezone:Central (CST)
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Area Code:205, 659
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:152547

Mountain Creek is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States.

Confederate Memorial Park

Mountain Creek was the site of the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home from 1902 to 1939, now the Confederate Memorial Park. The 102acres park has a museum, research facility, historic structures, ruins and two cemeteries with the graves of over 300 Confederate soldiers.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Dale Cox, "Confederate Memorial Park - Mountain Creek, Alabama" in ExploreSouthernHistory.com at http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/confederatepark.html (accessed January 25, 2010).
  2. 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.