Montgomery To Selma Groups < Montgomery Alabama

Montgomery to Selma Hub & Spoke Tour

Take a daytrip while visiting Montgomery. Compelling historic and civil rights attractions are just an hour away.

9:00 Depart for Selma

Drive Time: 45mins to lhr.

10:00 Old Depot Museum

4 Martin Luther King Jr. Street | 334-874-2l97
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, l820 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 l8l9, to Martin Luther King, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who led peaceful voting rights demonstrations here in l965.
Admission charge. Open Mon-Sat 10am-4pm.
Tour Time: 45mins.

11:00 Sturdivant Hall

7l3 Mabry Street | 334-872-5626
Sturdivant Hall is known as one of the finest Greek Revival Neo-Classical antebellum mansions in the Southeast, created by the gentleman 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 began in l852 by Colonel Edward T. Watts, a local resident.
Admission charge. Open Tue-Sat 10am-4pm.
Tour Time: 45mins.

12:00 Lunch

White Force Cottage is an antebellum home located next door to Sturdivant Hall. Mary Todd Lincoln once resided in this home. Lunches are scheduled for groups only with advance reservations.

1:00 Driving Tour

(Includes: Old Cahawba, National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Brown Chapel A.M.E Church)

Old Cahawba

l7 First South Street | Orrville, AL 36737
334-8l2-8058
Visit the ghost town of Alabama’s first capital. Located l2 miles outside Selma off Highway 22 South, this fascinating historic and archaeological site offers ruins to explore and period artifacts to see.
Free admission. Open Mon-Sun 9am-4pm.

National Voting Rights Museum & Institute

l0l2 Water Avenue | 334-4l8-0800
Near the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Museum and Institute offers America and the world the opportunity to learn 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.
Admission charge. Open Mon-Sat 9am-4pm.

Brown Chapel A.M.E Church & King Monument

4l0 Martin Luther King Jr. Street
334-874-7897
Visit the headquarters for the l965 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 l979. It is included in the Martin Luther King Jr. Street self-guided walking tour.
Free admission. Donations welcome. Open by appointment.

2:00 Edmund Pettus Bridge

Highway 80 at the intersection of Broad Street & Water Avenue
Voting rights marchers were confronted by law enforcement personnel on this bridge. The demonstration and the subsequent struggle known as Bloody Sunday eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of l965.
Tour Time: 30-45mins.

3:00 Return to Montgomery