2009 Official Alabama Vacation Guide - (Page 8) Alabama HISTORY by Marilyn Jones Stamps well as a proud heritage in music, sports, and aviation in Alabama. woven into the tapestry of american A visit to Alabama is a march through time. Etched in the cornerstones of our American heritage, you will discover Native American, Civil War, and Civil Rights history, as + In fact, everywhere you travel along our Southern soil— from the state’s birthplace in Huntsville to Birmingham, our largest city, to historic Montgomery, and on down to the coastal plains and the bayous of Mobile Bay—you will see history reflected in pine-ringed rivers flowing from lofty mountain tops, captured in old churches, forts, sweeping plantation homes, and museums, and echoing from the shadows of mammoth caves. PHOTOS: ATD/CHARLIE SEIFRIED, ATD/KARIM SHAMSI-BASHA. + If there is ever a place that is woven into the woof and warp of America, it is Alabama. From its prehistoric Indian heritage and territorial beginning through the Civil War and Civil Rights eras, to present-day, it has formed the setting for some of the most dramatic chapters ever written in our nation’s history. 8 w w w. a l a b a m a . t r a v e l http://www.alabama.travel
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