Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church and King Monument

National Register of Historic Places

	Visit the headquarters for the 1965 Voting Rights marches. Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. It is included in the Martin Luther King Jr. Street self-guided walking tour. Open by appointment.
410 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street • Selma, AL 36701 • Phone (334) 874-7897

Cahawba

National Register of Historic Places

	Visit the ghost town of Alabama's first capital. Located 12 miles outside Selma off Highway 22 South, this fascinating historic and archaeological site offers ruins to explore and period artifacts to see.
Alabama Historical Commission • 17 First South Street • Orrville, AL 36737 • Phone (334) 872-8058

	For banquets, meetings and conferences, seminars, trade and antique shows, flower and gun shows, bridge tournaments or almost any other type of gathering, the Convention Center is the place to be. It is conveniently located at 211 Washington Street, immediately behind City Hall. The Center is a one storied structure in the Greek revival style. It is crowned by a cupola, a faithful copy from Alabama's first Capitol building in Old Cahawba. Ample parking areas surround the Center.
211 Washington Street • Selma, AL 36702 • Phone (334) 874-2175

Kenan's Mill was built in the mid 1800's and produced water-ground meal, grits and corn for over 100 years.  The grounds also include a fascinating 19th Century brick charcoal kiln.  Kenan's Mill was built and continuously owned by the Kenan family until Elizabeth Kenan Buchanan donated it to the Historic Society in 1997.  Restoration is ongoing, and the mill is currently operating.

	Blocks of restored riverfront buildings offering wide variety of businesses from museums to restaurants and antique shops.

National Voting Rights Museum & Institute

National Register of Historic Places

	Near the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Museum and Institute offers America and the world the opportunity to learn the lessons from the past. Housed in this museum are exhibits that remind everyone of the struggle to secure the rights for all Americans to vote, regardless of race, education or wealth.
1012 Water Avenue • Selma, AL 36701 • Phone (334) 418-0800 • Fax: (334) 418-0278

Old Depot Museum

National Register of Historic Places

	An interpretive history museum located in the old L & N Railroad Depot at the foot of Historic Water Avenue, the Old Depot Museum has a fine collection of artifacts and memorabilia depicting life in Selma and Dallas County, 1820 to the present. In addition, several special topic exhibits are featured each year. A tour of the museum runs the gamut from Civil War to Civil Rights, from William Rufus King, the Vice-President who was one of Selma's founders in 1819, to Martin Luther King, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who led voting rights demonstrations here in 1965.
4 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street • Selma, AL 36701 • Phone (334) 874-2197

Old Live Oak Cemetery Tour

National Register of Historic Places

	One of the few cemeteries in the South on the National Register of Historic Sites, Old Live Oak is the resting place of more than 8,000 people. Several famous women are buried in Old Live Oak including: Elodie Todd Dawson, staunch Confederate supporter and sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln; Harriet Hooker Wilkins, the Selma suffragist who in 1922 became the first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature; Clara Weaver Parrish, member of one of Selma's first families and internationally known artist who also is noted for Tiffany stained glass designs (several are in Selma churches); and Frances John Hobbs, well-known suffragist who sewed the most valuable treasures from her jeweler husband's shop into her petticoats, saving them from Union Army looters. Other historic burial sites include those of William Rufus King, founder of Selma, U.S. senator and vice president of the United States; Benjamin Sterling Turner, Alabama's first black congressman; N.H.R. Dawson, Confederate colonel who later was appointed U.S. commissioner of education; John Tyler Morgan and Edmund Winston Pettus, both Confederate generals who later became U.S. senators; Catesby ap Roger Jones, commander of the Confederate ironclad Merrimac (or Virginia) and of the Confederate Naval Ordnance Works at Selma; and the Rev. Arthur Small, a Presbyterian minister who died in the Battle of Selma.

Vaughan-Smitherman Museum

	Wander through this antebellum structure restored to its original beauty and view a collection of Civil War memorabilia and antiques. Built in about 1848, this building has been used as a school, a hospital, the county courthouse and most recently, a museum.
109 Union Street • Selma, Alabama 36701 • Phone (334) 874-2174

Sturdivant Hall

National Register of Historic Places

	Sturdivant Hall is one of the state's outstanding tourist attractions. Called the finest Greek Revival Neo-Classical antebellum mansion in the Southeast by the man who built the White House, Sturdivant Hall is both a mansion and a museum. The tour includes the house, detached kitchen, gift shop and formal garden. This magnificent structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Construction was begun in 1852 by Colonel Edward T. Watts, a local resident.
713 Mabry Street • Selma, Alabama 36701 • Phone (334) 872-5626