Mountain Creek, Alabama

Mountain Creek, Alabama
Unincorporated community
1922 fire insurance map of Mountain Creek
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Coordinates: 32°42′38″N86°28′44″W / 32.71056°N 86.47889°W / 32.71056; -86.47889
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Chilton
Elevation	528 ft (161 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes	205, 659
GNIS feature ID	152547 [1]

Mountain Creek is an unincorporated community in southeastern Chilton County, Alabama, United States.

Confederate Memorial Park

Mountain Creek was the site of the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home from 1902 to 1939, 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

1. "Mountain Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Dale Cox, "Confederate Memorial Park - Mountain Creek, Alabama" in ExploreSouthernHistory.com at http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/confederatepark.html (accessed January 25, 2010).
3. 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.