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You’re Invited – 2020 Annual Meeting

February 3, 2020 bhistorical

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Upcoming Events

2022 Trustee Meetings (at noon)

  • March 9, 2022, The Annual Meeting
  • May 10, 2022, Trustee Meeting @ Society’s office pending further notice
  • September 13, 2022, Trustee Meeting @ Society’s office pending further notice
  • December 13, 2022, Trustee Meeting @ Society’s office pending further notice

2022 Events

  • February 16, 2022, 10AM and 6PM:  Olmsted Scholar, Lawrence Cotton, presentation at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Co-sponsored by the Birmingham Historical Society which will be selling books on the work of the Olmsted Brothers in Birmingham (free but registration required)
  • February 28, 2022, 7PM:  The 80th Annual Meeting of the Birmingham Historical Society featuring A Local Landmark & Legendary Leader: Slossfield & Dr. Boulware with Speakers:  Sharon Holley & Thomas Boulware III (free & open to the public)
  • April 24, 2022, 5PM:  Heritage Society at the Bush-Hill-Cooley Residence (ticket required)

Grandmother’s Garden at Sloss Quarters will be open Tuesday to Saturday from 10AM to 2PM

2021 Trustee Meetings (at noon)

  • March 9, 2021, The Annual Meeting, via Zoom
  • May 11, 2021, Trustee Meeting, via Zoom
  • Sept 14, 2021, Trustee Meeting, @ Society’s office pending further notice
  • Dec 14, 2021, Trustee Meeting, @ Society’s office pending further notice

2021 Events (pending resolution of the Covid-19 pandemic)

  • The Annual Meeting, date TBA
  • November 1, 2021: Publication Celebration for Birmingham: The City Beautiful, Compliments of George Ward,
  • Publication Celebration for A Guide to Birmingham, date TBA
  • Heritage Society Gathering 2020, Bush-Hill-Cooley House, Redmont Road, date TBA
  • Heritage Society Gathering 2021, Meyer-Lanier House, Altamont Road, date TBA
  • Alabama Plein Air Artists paint the Society’s garden at Sloss Quarters, April 25

2020 Events

Annual Meeting of the Members:

  • Presentation-The Saga of the Ross Bridge, John T. Milner, the South & North Railroad, and the Creation of Birmingham by Birgit Kibelka and Marjorie White
  • Presentation of our 2020 Strategic Plan
    Publication Celebration for The Birmingham District-An Industrial History and Guide
  • Family Favorites: Cake and Pie Competition
    February 24, 2020, 7-9 p.m.
    Auditorium, Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Annual Tour of Churches-Avondale:
Led By David Bains
Begins at Redeemer Community Church
4022 4th Avenue South
April 5, 2020, 2-5 pm

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO COVID-19

Heritage Society Spring Gathering:
At the Bush-Hill Residence, Redmont Road
May 10, Noon
Tickets required.

2019 Events

FLASH SALE!  One day ONLY!

  • Saturday, November 16th, 9AM to 4PM
    at Little Hardware, 2117 Cahaba Road, 35223. Our most popular books will be ON SALE at heavily discounted prices, just in time for the holidays.  Give the Gift of Birmingham History!

Second Saturdays at Sloss-Walks and Talks in Grandmother’s Garden, April-October, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. This year’s plantings and Walks and Talks at Grandmother’s Garden explore cultural traditions in our Birmingham “soul” food.

  • Sunday, October 13, 3-5 p.m.–Garden Party, Publication Celebration, and Exhibit of watercolors from Pretty Posies, Healing Powers–An Herbal Primer by featured artists Sumter Coleman, Gail Cosby, Ellen Erdreich, Louise McPhillips, and Jane Reed Ross, all Birmingham residents. Grandmother’s Garden at Sloss Quarters, 10 North 32nd Street.
  • October 15-November 30–Watercolors from Pretty Posies, Healing Powers–An Herbal Primer. Birmingham Botanical Gardens Library Gallery.
  • August 10, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Greek Culinary Heritage
  • September 14, 10:30-11:30 a.m, American Culinary Heritage
  • October 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m., German Culinary Heritage

All programs are free of charge.

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Birmingham Historical Society
Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 321474
Birmingham, AL 35232

One Sloss Quarters
Birmingham, Alabama 35222
BHS Business Office is open only
for scheduled meetings and appointments.

Historical Research, Publishing, and Education

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  • ANNUAL MEETING – Monday, February 28th, 7:00PM, BBG Auditorium February 21, 2022

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Birmingham Historical Society Publications 1977-2021

  • 2021.  Birmingham: The City Beautiful, Compliments of G. Ward
  • 2020. The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide (reprint of 1981 edition)
  • 2019. Pretty Posies, Powerful Healing: An Herbal Primer
  • 2019. Shades Creek: Flowing Through Time
  • 2018. Warren H. Manning’s City Plan for Birmingham, reprint of 1919 plan
  • 2016. Birmingham, 1915, reprint
  • 2016. For Science and Humanity: Building Southern Research
  • 2015. Bob Moody’s Birmingham: A City in Watercolor
  • 2014. Mountain Brook-A Historic American Landscape
  • 2013. MINUTES-Central Committee of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • 2012. The Jemison Magazine: Birmingham and Mountain Brook, 1926-1930, reprint of the magazines
  • 2011. The Jemison Magazine and The Selling of Birmingham, 1910-1914, reprint of the magazines
  • 2010. Digging Out of the Great Depression: Federal Programs At Work In and About the Birmingham Area
  • 2009. Mountain Brook Village: Then & Now
  • 2008. D.O. Whilldin: Alabama Architect
  • 2007. Hand Down Unharmed: Olmsted Files on Birmingham Parks: 1910-1925
  • 2006. The Olmsted Vision: Parks for Birmingham
  • 2005. A Park System for Birmingham, Olmsted Brothers, 1925, Reprint.
  • 2004. Art of the New South: Women Artists of Birmingham, 1890-1950
  • 2003. A Guide to Architectural Styles Featuring Birmingham Homes
  • 2001. Aspiration: Birmingham’s Historic Houses of Worship
  • 2001. A Pizella Affair: Portraits of the Comer Family
  • 1999. Walking Tours of Birmingham Churches Conducted from 1990-1999
  • 1999. Vive Vulcan! Activities for Schools
  • 1998. In Celebration of the Restoration of Alabama Power Company’s 1925 Tower
  • 1998. Low Virtues: The Value of Human Scale Architecture to Birmingham Urbanism
  • 1998. A Walk to Freedom-The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1956-1964
  • 1997. Birmingham Bound-An Atlas of the South’s Premier Industrial Region
  • 1996. Birmingham View: Through the Years in Photographs
  • 1995. Birmingham’s Vulcan, reprint 1938 booklet
  • 1995. Vulcan & His Times-A Tell all about Birmingham’s Most Famous Landmark
  • 1994. The Birmingham Industrial Heritage District Map
  • 1992. True Tales of Birmingham
  • 1991. Mountain Brook Estates, reprint of a 1926 publication
  • 1991. Judge Clarence Allgood: His Brother’s Keeper
  • 1990. Cinderella Stories, Transformations of Historic Birmingham Buildings
  • 1989. Designs on Birmingham: A Landscape History of a Southern City and its Suburbs
  • 1989. Buildings Against Cities: The Struggle to Make Places
  • 1988. House Detective: A Guide to Researching Birmingham Buildings
  • 1986. Image of the City, by Grady Clay
  • 1985. Go To Town, Birmingham: A Public Forum on a Vital City Center
  • 1984. Old Birmingham-New Architecture: Student Projects for a Historic Downtown Context
  • 1983. Five Points Heritage Hike and Patch
  • 1982. Town Within A City: The Five Points South Neighborhood, 1880-1930
  • 1981. The Birmingham District: An Industrial History and Guide
  • 1980. Birmingham Heritage Hike Guide and Patch
  • 1978. The Ghost in the Sloss Furnaces
  • 1978. Downtown Discovery Tour
  • 1978. Downtown Birmingham: Architectural and Historical Walking Tour Guide
  • 1977-1987. The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, 14 issues
Birmingham Historical Society
Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 321474
Birmingham, AL 35232
BHS Business Office is open ONLY
for scheduled meetings and appointments
NOTE:  Please use mailing address above as BHS will be MOVING
in June 2022
One Sloss Quarters
Birmingham, Alabama 35222
email to:bhistorical(at)gmail.com
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