"Many of the furnishings of this formal parlor were collected by Dr. William Burritt during some of his numerous trips to foreign countries. His portrait hangs over the beautiful Adam Mantel which originally graced the parlor of the Burritt home...
Shown here are (1) the Leroy Pope home, built in 1815, (2) the Thomas Bibb home, built in the 1830s, and (3) a planter's home, built in 1835. All the houses pictured are antebellum, not colonial.
"On this campus site once stood the Green Bottom Inn, one of Huntsville's earliest hostelries, noted for its race track. GRAY GANDER, once rated the world's fastest horse and winner of a $20,000 purse (not a small amount in the 1800's), raced and...