Tuscumbia is home to Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller and very close to Muscle Shoals.
The Keller home was built in 1820, only one year after Alabama became the 22nd State of the Union. Ivy Green is a simple, white clapboard home design in typical Southern architecture. The main house is of Virginia cottage construction. Since 1954 Helen Keller’s birthplace has been a permanent shrine to the “miracle” that occurred in a blind and deaf seven-year old girl’s life. At that time Ivy Green was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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