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Things to put here
Welcome to
Historic Sites
Hot Map of the State
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
Belle Mont
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Bottle Creek Site
Confederate Memorial Park
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Dr. Francis Medical Museum
Fendall Hall
Fort Mims
Fort Morgan
Fort Toulouse/Fort Jackson
Gaineswood
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
Magnolia Grove
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
Old Cahawba
Old Depot Museum
Pond Spring (The Wheeler Plantation)
Russell Cave National Monument
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
Southern Museum of Flight
State Black Archives, Research Center, and Museum (Alabama)
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
Important Events
1519 – Alonso de Pineda of Spain explored Mobile Bay
1540 – DeSoto explored interior, defeated Choctaws
1702 – Pierre and Jean LeMoyne built first permanent settlement, Ft. Louis
1813 – Bands of Creeks massacred settlers at Ft. Mims
1814 – Gen. Jackson defeated warring Creeks at Horseshoe Bend
1817 – Became Alabama Territory
1819 – Joined Union as 22nd State
1836-7 – Federal troops drove Indians from their lands
1848 – Alabama Platform denied Federal Government right to bar slaves from territories
1861 – Seceded from the Union, Confederate States of America formed at Montgomery
1864 – Union Adm. Farragut won battle of Mobile Bay
1868 – Rejoined Union
1880 – First blast furnace operated at Birmingham
1881 – Tuskegee Institute founded; directed by Booker T. Washington
1915 – Severe attack of boll weevil on cotton
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