A legacy of collecting, preserving, and educating the community and beyond.
Formed in 1992, The Montgomery County Historical Society, a tax-exempt non-profit organization housed within the Figh Pickett Barnes School House, has been collecting, documenting, and sharing Montgomery County’s rich history. The Historical Society also seeks to collect and preserve the records of its historic house, the former early twenty-century home of the Barnes School for Boys.
MCHS Receives $75K Alabama Historical Commission Grant
The Montgomery County Historical Society was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from the Alabama Historical Commission in July of 2025 to transform the third floor of the historic Figh-Pickett House into a permanent interpretive exhibit space, create original educational materials, and expand public programming that connects Montgomery County’s local history to the broader story of Alabama. The funds [...]
Recent Grant and Other Funding
MCHS is pleased to announce that we have received grant funding in recent months from the Alabama Humanities Alliance (AHA), a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The mission of AHA is to foster learning, understanding, and appreciation of Alabama’s people, communities, and cultures. The ultimate goal is to use the humanities to bring Alabamians together [...]
MCHS is a group dedicated to saving and restoring Montgomery’s oldest existing brick house, the Figh Pickett Barnes School House, built in 1837.
We preserve Montgomery’s history by assisting with the archiving and maintaining of a vast number of photographs, books, scrapbooks and data from our past.
Our extensive archives and reference material library are available for historical and genealogical research. We will also store and protect you own family archives in our controlled environment.
