Due to the COVID-19 virus the Bessemer Hall of History Museum will be CLOSED until further notice. We regret this decision but think it’s best for our visitors and staff. Please keep us in mind for future visits.

Phone calls and emails will be monitored.

Luellen Nagle

President, Bessemer Hall of History Museum

Did you enjoy the Alabama Folk Fair and Craft Show last May? Well you are in for a treat. We are having the 4^th Annual Alabama Folk Fair again on May 1 and 2, 2020.    You will be hearing more about it as time goes by, but for now –if you want to be a vendor, you need to get your application in along with a check so that you won’t miss out. Booths will fill quickly.   See our flyer and application form.

 You should check back periodically to find out all the plans for this important event.    It not only offers an opportunity to retain and demonstrate our folk arts and crafts, but also gives financial benefit to this museum. Our Board of Directors works hard to put on this event and see that it is a wonderful success.

2020 Alabama Folk Fair vendor form.

We would like to announce that the Heartland Cruisers upcoming car show on September 28, 2019 at Tannehill State Park in McCalla. The Bessemer Hall of History Museum will be benefitting from proceeds raised from the car show.

Brian Rushing from The University of Alabama and Bessemer Hall of History Museum curator Christopher Eiland unveil the Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail sign. The Bessemer Hall of History Museum has been designated as home to the Bessemer Mound site sign on the trail system. Come by the Bessemer Hall of History Museum and see the sign and artifacts from the Bessemer Mound site.


Visit alabamamoundtrail.org for more information on the Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail.