Mountain Creek, Alabama

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

Mountain Creek, Alabama
1922 fire insurance map of Mountain Creek
1922 fire insurance map of Mountain Creek
Mountain Creek, Alabama is located in Alabama
Mountain Creek, Alabama
Mountain Creek, Alabama
Location within the state of Alabama
Mountain Creek, Alabama is located in the United States
Mountain Creek, 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 / 32.71056; -86.47889
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyChilton
Elevation
528 ft (161 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID152547[1]

Confederate Memorial Park

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Mountain 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

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  1. ^ "Mountain Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Dale Cox, "Confederate Memorial Park - Mountain Creek, Alabama" in ExploreSouthernHistory.com at http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/confederatepark.html (accessed January 25, 2010).
  3. ^ 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.