Mountain Creek, Alabama
Mountain Creek is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States.
Mountain Creek, Alabama | |
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  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 | |
| 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
Mountain Creek was the site of the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home from 1902 to 1939, which is 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
- "Mountain Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- 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.
Municipalities and communities of Chilton County, Alabama, United States | ||
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| Cities |  Map of Alabama highlighting Chilton County | |
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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