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The oldest symbol is the Alabama State Bible, from 1853. [1] The most recently designated symbol is the Little Bluestem , Alabama's state native grass, established in 2024. Alabama does not have an official nickname , although "Heart of Dixie" was strongly promoted by the Alabama Chamber of Commerce in the 1940s and 1950s, and put on state ...
This list of Alabama state parks covers state parks in the Alabama park system. As of 2023, there were 21 official Alabama state parks run in part or exclusively by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources [ 1 ] and three historic state parks run by other authorities.
The first seal was designed in 1817 by William Wyatt Bibb, the governor of the Alabama Territory and the subsequent first governor of the state. When Alabama became a state in 1819, the state legislature adopted the design as the official state seal. The seal prominently features a map showing one of the state's most valuable resources—its ...
Pages in category "Symbols of Alabama" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... List of Alabama state symbols; A. Alabama (Julia Tutwiler song)
There are 60 colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Alabama. The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa is the largest university in the state with 38,100 enrolled for fall 2019. [1] Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama is the largest two-year college, with an enrollment of just over 8,000.
Template:Alabama state parks map; List of Alabama state parks; B. Bladon Springs State Park; Blue Springs State Park; Buck's Pocket State Park; C. Cathedral Caverns ...
Alabama State University (ASU, Bama State, or Alabama State) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, during the Reconstruction era , it was one of about 180 " normal schools " established by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools.
The official description, in heraldic language, is laid out in the Code of Alabama, Section 1-2-2: [2]. Arms: quarterly, the first azure three fleur de lis or (for France); second quarterly first and fourth gules a tower tripple [sic] towered or, second and third argent a lion rampant gules (for Spain); third azure a saltire argent and gules over all a cross of the last fimbriated of the ...