SDCHPS

Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society

Mission:

To preserve, protect and restore Selma and Dallas County’s past by supporting educational, entertaining, and constructive methods of displaying, preserving, protecting, and restoring historic structures and locales in and around the Selma and Dallas County area.  PRESERVE, PROTECT, RESTORE.
 
Current Projects:
Kenan’s Mill       
Activities:       Restoration, maintenance and grounds development
Program:        Kenan’s Mill Days (Spring)                      
                     Kenan’s Mill Fall Festival & Bluegrass Event  (November)
                     Participate in Annual Pilgrimage
Mission:        To provide a means of educating people about Selma’s history and rich agricultural past.
 
The "Confederate" Foundry
Activities:      Restoration, maintenance and development of the property as an interactive industrial museum
Program:       Part of the Annual Pilgrimage
Mission:        To preserve our nation’s industrial past and to determine the role the building played during the Civil War.
 
Heritage Village
Activities:      Maintenance and continued development by the addition of new buildings
Program:      Part of the Annual Pilgrimage
Mission:        To preserve buildings slated for destruction in an effort to preserve Selma and Dallas County’s rich history.
 
Other Activities:

                                 Riverfront Market Day                                Historic Survey of Old Town 

              Historic Plaque Program              Tremont School Restoration          Historic Property Signs

Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society:

P.O. Box 586

Selma, AL 36702-0586

Fax (334) 875-7142

800-45-SELMA (800-457-3562)