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BONDS Online Neighborhood Survey

ATTENTION! Capitol Heights Residents and Property Owners!

(Tenants, Homeowners, and Landlords) 
 
Building Our neighborhoods for Development and Success (BONDS) is requiring those neighborhoods participating in their 2013 BONDS Grant Program to complete this online survey.  CHCA hopes to be one of the neighborhoods to be awarded a grant and needs your help to reach the required 25% participation level.
 
Regina Berry-Meadows of BONDS reported,  “This survey is required of all 2013 BONDS Grantees. You will need to have 25% of the homes in your neighborhood complete this survey all in an effort to help you identify strengths, weaknesses, and concerns in your neighborhood and the Grants should be a means of addressing some of those weaknesses and concerns.  All surveys must be completed no later than October 5, 2012.”
 
Allow at least 15 minutes to complete the survey.
 
Thank you in advance for participating and when the results are made available,
they will be shared via our email contact list and posted to this site. 
Cynthia McCollister, President Capitol Heights Civic Association
 

 

Click this link to access BONDS Online Neighborhood Survey

Survey is now closed. Results to be posted soon.

Capitol Heights Timeline 1540 to 1908

Montgomery is positioned 32.35 degrees north of the equator and 86.28 degrees west of the prime meridian. 

 

Hernando de Soto claimed this area for Spain in 1540.

 

French settlers came to the area in 1717 when they established Fort Toulouse.

 

In 1817 President John Quincey Adams sold 321 acres of land to Dr. James Gustine.

 

In 1819 the settlements of East Alabama and New Philadelphia merged to form the city of Montgomery.

 

The land that now makes up Capitol Heights stayed in the Gustine family until February 1836when a part of the land was sold to Thomas G. Vickers.

 

Mr. Vickers gave his son J. Hiran Vickers the area known today as Capitol Heights in November 1833.  (Not sure how he could have given the land to his son prior to receiving ownership, but that’s what the records say!)

 

Montgomery was chosen to be the state capitol in 1846.

 

In 1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the president of the Confederacy in Montgomery.

 

In October 1889J. Hiran sold the land wo William Davis and Thomas Scott.

 

In 1904 a strip of land 100 feet wide through the land was dedicated to Montgomery County for the express purpose of building an electric railroad.  The land must always be used for public transit or it reverts back to its owners.  Today that is Madison Avenue.

 

The remainder of the land was sold to Albert F. Wilson, James S. Pinkard and Massey Wilson for $25,000 in 1904.

 

On November 29, 1904Pinkard and the others started Capitol Heights Development Company.  The land in was divided in blocks and lots and called Capitol Heights. 

 

Capitol Heights was incorporated as a town in 1908.