Mountain Creek was the site of the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home from 1902 to 1939, which is now the Confederate Memorial Park. The park has a museum, research facility, historic structures, ruins and two cemeteries with the graves of over 300 Confederate soldiers.Dale Cox, "Confederate Memorial Park - Mountain Creek, Alabama" in ExploreSouthernHistory.com at http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/confederatepark.html (accessed January 25, 2010).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.
