This state historic site preserves the grounds of Alabama’s Confederate Soldiers’ Home, which operated from 1902 to 1939 for aging veterans and some wives and widows. A museum, cemeteries and surviving landscape interpret the institution and the postwar memory culture surrounding it.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: ahc.alabama.gov/properties/confederate/confederate.aspx