1908

1908 was the 37th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• The original 16th Street Baptist Church building is condemned
• Architect Wallace Rayfield relocates his practice to Birmingham
• Local prohibition is enacted in the City of Birmingham
• Frank P. O'Brien succeeds George Ward as Mayor of Birmingham
• The Birmingham Art Club is founded
• The Brown Marx Building is expanded
• 1908 coal miners strike

Sports

• Carleton Molesworth begins managing the Birmingham Barons
• The University of Alabama and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) fail to agree on a meal stipend for players, thus ending their rivalry until the legislature required them to play each other again in 1948.

Buildings

• Elyton Elementary School
• Ensley High School

Births

• Augusta Williams
• April 20: Lionel Hampton

Deaths

• Benjamin F. Roden

External links

• "Views of Birmingham, Alabama with a glimpse at some of the natural resources of the Birmingham District and industries based theron." published by Isidore Newman & Son, Bankers (New York, New Orleans) and copyrighted in 1908.