What makes alabama special

Although many Native Americans were forced to leave Alabama in the s, today some descendants of those tribes still live in the state. Spanish explorers first arrived in the s. The area was controlled at different times by England, France , then Spain again. In Alabama became a U. It would leave the Union in , and rejoin after the Civil War.

In the s and 60s, Alabama was at the center of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery.

Photo by Kelly Kazek. An odd metal figure on the side of a Hartselle road is actually an aging advertisement. The male figure has a flattened body with a three-dimensional head. One of its flat sides is etched with the words: VegaCal For the Liver. The other side says: VegaCal Gets the Bile. According to the Hartselle Historical Society, it was created to advertise VegaCal, which was one of the many elixirs produced at the time that promised to cure a variety of ailments.

Click here to read more. It is shown above in the s. Built in by by Dr. Sterling J. Foster, the two-story wood-frame home features a three-bay front porch with three ogee arches at the top. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in The Dairy Queen in Andalusia, Ala.

The brick building has a vintage DQ neon sign and a mural was painted on its side showing the history of the store. The eat-in building is filled with memorabilia from the restaurant and the town. The headstone of Florence Y. Barr is one of the most unique in Alabama. Barr was 33 years old when he died in in Florence, Ala. The headstone is topped with a draped urn. It opened in the mids as a hardware store and is now filled with unique local gifts whose sale keeps the museum operating.

The store is watched over by Harrison the cat, an animatronic plush kitty who came to the store in Since that time, Harrison has slowly rotated his head, run by a small motor inside. Bellingrath Gardens in Theodore, Ala. A May European trip inspired the couple to turn the property into a European garden.

They hired architect George B. Today, the acre gardens and a room, 10,square-foot English Renaissance mansion constructed in are open for tours. Anne Mathilde Bilbro was a composer known primarily as a children's musician and her unique method is said to have revolutionized the teaching of piano to children. In the edition of "Musical Alabama," she was noted as Alabama's most prolific composer.

Jessie Welch Austin — was Alabama's first female sheriff. Her husband Will Austin was elected as the Elmore County sheriff in and Jessie became his chief clerk and served as the sheriff's office administrator. In , a sitting sheriff could not run for re-election in Elmore County so with Will's help Jessie ran and won by a larger margin than her husband had.

She served as Elmore County Sheriff from to Eddie Kendrick , often spelled Kendricks, was a founder of the singing group The Temptations and was the lead singing tenor from through , when he began a solo career.

Kendrick and The Temptations had their first No. Geneva Mercer , best known as a sculptor, was the first Alabama artist to have all of her works documented by the Smithsonian. She attended Livingston University now the University of West Alabama and then apprenticed with famed sculptor Giuseppe Moretti, creator of the Vulcan. After her apprenticeship she continued working with the famed sculptor until his death and ran his studio after his death.

Mercer has many commissions at Alabama public places as well as throughout the world. This boxcar was produced in the Pullman Standard company's Bessemer plant, shown above, which operated from until The one millionth car was never meant to be sold but was donated to the City of Bessemer with a special paint scheme. Birmingham Public Library. The statue, along with the architectural design of the Alabama Power building, is the earliest use of Art Deco style in Alabama and one of the earliest in the United States.

Two structures were built at the site in the s by William Boshell: a steam-powered sawmill on one bank of the creek and a gristmill on the other. The gristmill was placed on the National Register of Historic places in but was mostly destroyed by fire in The sawmill buned in The remains are visible still today. Old Town Helena is the historic part of Helena, Ala. She was born in Huntsville in and died in He was born in Montgomery in and died in Alabama resident Sequoyah devised the phonetic, written alphabet of the Cherokee language.

The Birmingham Airport opened in At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19 hours. Audemus jura nostra defendere is the official state motto.

General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians in Following the event the Native Americans ceded nearly half the present state land to the United States. Find on Areaconnect Yellow Pages Link to 50states. Contact Us Privacy Terms Disclaimer. These states were pro-slavery and relied heavily upon African American slaves for their vast agricultural industries. When Abraham Lincoln was elected in the states that formed the confederacy believed their rights to keep slaves would be abolished, and thus they seceded from the USA.

In its first test run, it sank, killing 5 crew members, and its second trial saw it sink again, killing all 8 crew members. Undeterred by the rising body count, the Confederates raised the submarine to the surface and tried again. On the other hand, due to damages suffered during the attack, the H. L Hunley sank again, killing all crew members, again. This Motorsports complex is located just outside of Talladega, Alabama, where it was built on the site of a former air force base in In its many years of operation, the track has been home to countless broken records, as well as first-time winners.

In a man by the name of H. Sweet had a home built for him in the town of Bessemer, just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Talk about a sweet deal! Its past is contrasted between its time in the confederation, to being the seat of civil rights movements for African Americans. The Fact Site requires you to enable Javascript to browse our website. It has a population of 4. Alabama used to be covered in grassland.