The center serves as a repository of information for the unfortunate and significant events that occurred in Lowndes County during the march. The museum houses exhibits on the death of seminarian Jonathan Daniels; the slaying of Viola Liuzzo, a white woman who assisted marchers by transporting them to Selma; and the establishment of “Tent City,” which housed families dislodged by white landowners in Lowndes County.
Kenan’s Mill is a living-history museum. The main feature is Kenan’s grist mill which was built in the early 1860s. Also features meeting rooms, kitchen, a swinging bridge across Valley Creek, bandstand/pavilion, and restrooms.
The Brown Hawkins Rural Learning Center is an educational institution located in Evergreen, Alabama. It provides a variety of programs and resources for the rural community, including adult education, workforce training, and community outreach initiatives.
The Alabama River Lodge offers hunting on 12,000 acres of prime, privately owned plantation land along the Alabama River, just south of Selma and 45 minutes from the Montgomery airport.
This marker honoring murdered civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo is located on U.S. Highway 80, about 20 miles east of Selma, Dallas County. It was erected in 1991 at the site where she was shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan on March 25, 1965, after the Selma to Montgomery March. The memorial is one of several on the National Park Service’s Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.Courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
The Marengo Public Shooting Range, operated by Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries and Marengo County Commission, offers shooting up to 100 yards and a concrete pad for shotgun shooting at clay targets. The ranges are wheelchair accessible and have concrete walkways for target access.
