BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Daniel J. Meador
President
(Charlottesville, VA)
Ralph N. Hobbs
Vice President 
(Selma, AL)
B.M. Miller Childers
Secretary-Treasurer 
(Selma, AL)

Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr. (Selma, AL)
Anne C. Dalton 
(Clanton, AL)
Fournier J. "Boots" Gale III (Birmingham, AL) 
W. Bibb Lamar, Jr. 
(Mobile, AL)
E. Mason McGowin, Jr. 
(Chapman, AL)
Clifton K. Meador 
(Nashville, TN)
Howard C. Oliver
(Minter, AL)
Garland Cook Smith 
(Birmingham, AL)
James D. Stewart, Jr. 
(Birmingham, AL)
W. Lee Thuston 
(Birmingham, AL)
Florence H. Young
(Montgomery, AL)
Linda K. Derry
ex officio
(Selma, AL)

John B. Scott Jr.
(Montgomery, AL)
Bradley Hale†  
Directors Emeritus

Old Cahawba, at the confluence of the Cahaba and Alabama Rivers west of Selma, is one of the most important historically and biologically significant places in Alabama. Old Cahawba is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The location has witnessed the confluences of cultures as well as rivers, and it harbors a 4,000-year history of multi-cultural inhabitants and settlements.  It is Alabama’s history in its most natural state and the birthplace of Alabama government.

Over 30 years ago, the Alabama Historical Commission established the park as a state historic site. State funding, however, has never been sufficient to acquire all the land at the site and to organize and interpret it fully for public access.  To meet this challenge, in 2008 a group of community-minded citizens established The Cahaba Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, to generate funding from private sources.