In partnership with the Alabama Department of Tourism and the 2010 Year of Small Towns and Down Towns, a new historical marker has been placed on the campus of the current location of the Scottsboro City Board of Education, this location being known as the College Hill Historic District.

College Hill Historic District, located along College Avenue between Scott and Kyle Streets, was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.  This District was Scottsboro's first subdivision.  The area was part of Charlotte Scott Skelton's inheritance from her parents, Robert Thomas and Elizabeth Parsons Scott, the founders of Scottsboro.

The Scott family donated a large plot at the northwest corner of Scott Street and College Avenue for a school.  The District gets its name from the academies, colleges, and public schools which have graced this campus for 130 years.  The first school located on this site was the Scott Male and Female Academy built in 1878.  The current building was constructed in 1939. 

College Avenue's first two homes, built in the 1890's on the two eastern corners, are no longer standing.  The remaining original 16 houses, were built between 1909 and the 1940's.  

The marker was unveiled at a ceremony on Sunday, June 27th.  Many local dignitaries and descendants of the original families were present to view the unveiling.