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Alabama Facts and Top Attractions:

Alabama Fun Facts:

Nicknames: Heart of Dixie, Yellowhammer State

Capitol: Montgomery

Motto: "We dare defend our rights"

Song: "Alabama" Written by Julia S. Tutwiler

Flower: Camellia

Tree: Longleaf Pine; Pinus palustris

Bird: Yellowhammer

Gained Statehood: December 14, 1819 The United States of America accepted Alabama as the 22nd state to enter the union.

Name Origin: Means "tribal town" in the Creek Indian language.

Alabama Visitor and Travel Information:

Alabama's rich historic past is well preserved, especially its beautiful antebellum homes. The Constitution of the Confederacy was drawn up in Alabama. The civil rights movement also started in Alabama. The bustling port of Mobile has a very important port of call for merchant ships from all over the world. Alabama has great beaches, bays and rivers, and is a Mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, fishermen and hunters. Alabama's lakes, rivers and streams are home to a variety of bass, bream, crappie, catfish, walleye and rainbow trout to name a few!

Alabama Tourist Attractions and Points of Interest:

Birth place of Helen Keller
Space and Rocket Center
Alabama Constitution Village
White House of the Confederacy
The Restored State Capitol
Civil Rights Memorial
The Rosa Parks Museum & Library
The Shakespeare Festival Theater Complex
Civil Rights Institute & McWane Center
The Russell Cave
Bellingrath Gardens at Theodore
USS "Alabama" at Mobile

Alabama Constitution Village
Dauphin Island Sea Lab Education Center
Arab Historical Society
Mound State Monument
Gulf Coast Beaches
Fort Gaines Historic Site
Birmingham Zoo
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park
Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park
Water World
Alabama Princess Riverboat

Alabama History:

Spanish explorers are believed to have arrived at Mobile Bay in 1519, and the territory was visited in 1540 by the explorer Hernando de Soto. The first permanent European settlement in Alabama was founded by the French at Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1702. The British gained control of the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris but had to cede almost all the Alabama region to the U.S. and Spain after the American Revolution. The Confederacy was founded at Montgomery in Feb. 1861, and, for a time, the city was the Confederate capital. During the later 19th century, the economy of the state slowly improved with industrialization. At Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington, Dr. George Washington Carver carried out his famous agricultural research. In the 1950s and '60s, Alabama was the site of such landmark civil-rights actions as the bus boycott in Montgomery (1955-56) and the "Freedom March" from Selma to Montgomery (1965).

Famous Alabama Residents or Natives:

Hank Aaron, Ralph Abernathy, Hugo L. Black, George Washington Carver, Nat "King" Cole, Marva Collins, Kenneth Gibson, Lionel Hampton, W.C. Handy, Courtney Cox-Arquette, Helen Keller, Coretta Scott King, Harper Lee, Joe Louis, Willie Mays, Jim Nabors, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, Wayne Rogers, Tascaluza, George Wallace, William Weatherford, Heather Whitestone, Hank Williams