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The 28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, Lucy Baxley who served from 2003 to 2007 was born here. Pikeville: Marion: First county seat of Marion County Prairie Bluff: Prairie Blue, Dale, Daletown: Wilcox: 1819: 1870s: Submerged: Former Alabama River shipping port Riverton [4] [9] [10] Point Smith 1846-1851, Chickasaw 1851-1890, Riverton 1890 ...
Kowaliga, also known as Kowaliga Industrial Community [2] and Benson, [3] was a former unincorporated village and historically African-American community active from roughly 1890 until 1926, and located in Elmore County and later Tallapoosa County in Alabama, United States.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice was created by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) on a six acre site in the downtown area of Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial opened to the public April 26, 2018. [5]
Alabama. Amusement park City Years of operation Notes Ref. Canyon Land Park Fort Payne: 1970–1973 [2] Lake City Amusement Park Guntersville: 2016–2016
The Negro Leagues played its first East-West All-Star Game on Sept. 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, and the last one was held in 1962, before the league shuttered.
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In total, this tornado killed 72 people, all in Alabama. This made it the deadliest single tornado ever to strike the state of Alabama as well as (at the time) the deadliest in the United States since a 1955 tornado in Udall, Kansas killed 80 people – the 2011 Joplin tornado a month later killed 158. The path of the tornado was 132 miles (212 ...