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Scottsboro is located at (34.651368, −86.042570). [29] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 51.7 square miles (134 km 2), of which, 47.3 square miles (123 km 2) of it is land and 4.4 square miles (11 km 2) of it (8.47%) is water. The water areas are the Tennessee River and its backwaters.
June 29, 1981 [2] The Public Square Historic District is a historic district in Scottsboro, Alabama , United States. Although Scottsboro had been the county seat of Jackson County since 1870, the town's earliest commercial development was centered on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad line, one block north of the square.
Jackson County is the northeasternmost county in the U.S. state of Alabama.As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,579. [1] The county seat is Scottsboro. [2] The county was named for Andrew Jackson, general in the United States Army and afterward President of the United States of America. [3]
Scottsboro, Alabama, United States; Scottsboro, Georgia, United States; The Scottsboro Boys, involved in a racially charged legal case that made it to the United States Supreme Court; Scottsboro: A Novel, a 2008 novel by Ellen Feldman nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, a 2001 documentary about the above ...
The road heads past businesses, curving to the northeast. The two routes continue through wooded areas of residential and commercial establishments, passing to the southeast of Scottsboro Municipal Airport. US 72 Bus./SR 279 heads into woodland and comes to an end at an interchange with US 72/SR 2 on the border of Scottsboro and Scottsboro. [1 ...
Restoration began in 1991 and today it houses the Scottsboro Depot Museum. [2] The building is divided into a 30 x 46 foot (9 x 14 m) freight room and a 30 x 18 foot (9 x 5.5 m) office. [ 3 ] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Washington first raised the idea of a Scottsboro Boys museum in 2000 as part of a public discussion local officials had about created a historic walking trail in the area. [2] She faced resistance from many in the Scottsboro area, who felt the incident was over and wanted to forget it. [1] [3] Even a former mayor of Scottsboro advised her not ...
Viet Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Việt, 25 February 1981 – 6 October 2007) and Duc Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Đức, born 25 February 1981) were a pair of Vietnamese conjoined twins surgically separated in 1988. Viet died in 2007 of natural causes. Viet and Duc were born on 25 February 1981, in Sa Thầy, Kon Tum Province. Viet was the ...