Portal:Alabama

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Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south; and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center.

Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following the American Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery march made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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Fort Morgan

Bottle Creek Site

Henry D. Clayton House

Yuchi Town

Apalachicola Fort Site

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church Edmund Pettus Bridge

Montgomery (snagboat)

Swayne Hall, Talladega College

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church First Confederate Capitol Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed

City Hall and Southern Market Government Street Presbyterian Church USS Alabama (battleship) USS Drum (submarine)

Bethel Baptist Church Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Sloss Blast Furnaces

Episcopal Church Of The Nativity

Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator Propulsion and Structural Test Facility Redstone Test Stand Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand Saturn V Launch Vehicle

Alabama National Historic Landmarks (clickable map)

The National Historic Landmarks in Alabama represent Alabama's history from the precolonial era, through the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Age. There are 39 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Alabama, which are located in 18 of the state's 67 counties. Five of the NHLs in the state have military significance, eight are significant examples of a particular architectural style, six are archaeological sites, seven played a role in the African American struggle for civil rights, and five are associated with the development of the U.S. Space Program. One site in Alabama was designated a NHL, but the designation was subsequently removed. The National Historic Landmark program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service determines which properties meet NHL criteria and makes nomination recommendations after an owner notification process. The Secretary of the Interior reviews nominations and, based on a set of predetermined criteria, makes a decision on NHL designation or a determination of eligibility for designation. Both public and privately owned properties are designated as NHLs. This designation provides indirect, partial protection of the historic integrity of the properties, via tax incentives, grants, monitoring of threats, and other means. Owners may object to the nomination of the property as a NHL. When this is the case the Secretary of the Interior can only designate a site as eligible for designation. (Full article...)

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Barber Motorsports Park is an 880 acres (360 ha) multi-purpose racing facility located in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built by George W. Barber, and includes the 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m²) Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum. It has been the site of the IndyCar Series' Grand Prix of Alabama since 2010. The Annual Barber Vintage Festival has taken place at the park each October since 2005. Barber Motorsports Park is also the home of the Porsche Track Experience.

Barber Motorsports Park is classified as an FIA Grade Two circuit. (Full article...)

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Image 1Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 2Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 3William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 41823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 5Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 6Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 7Blast furnaces such as the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Ensley Works made Birmingham an important center for iron production in the early 20th century. (from History of Alabama)
Image 8Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 9The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 10The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 11Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 12The former Mount Sinai School in rural Autauga County, completed in 1919. It was one of the 387 Rosenwald Schools built in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 13Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)

Map of counties in Alabama by racial plurality, per the 2020 census

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Image 15The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 16Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 17The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 18Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 19Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 20Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 21Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 22The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 23The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery. It houses the Supreme Court of Alabama, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. (from Alabama)
Image 24Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 25Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 26Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 27Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 28Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 29Harrison Plaza at the University of North Alabama in Florence. The school was chartered as LaGrange College by the Alabama Legislature in 1830. (from Alabama)
Image 30Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 31Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 32Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 33The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 34Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 35Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 36The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 37The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 38Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 39Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 40A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 41The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 421725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 43Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 44The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 45Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 46Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 48Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 49Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2021. (from Alabama)
Image 50Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 51Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 52Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 53Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)

Did you know -

... that David Wheeler was running for re-election to the Alabama House of Representatives unopposed in the Republican primary when he died in 2022?
... that the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands have shrunken rapidly and drifted westward since first being mapped in the 1800s?
... that New York City's largest office building is owned by an Alabama pension fund?
... that an episode of the children's TV show Arthur featuring a same-sex wedding was not aired on Alabama's PBS network?
... that the social study They Live on the Land was based on interviews with nearly the entire population of a rural Alabama town during the Great Depression?
... that Phil Williams served in the Alabama state legislature at the same time as Phil Williams?

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