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Wiregrass ecosystem on the Gulf Coast Map showing southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.. The Wiregrass region, also known as the Wiregrass plains or Wiregrass country, is an area of the Southern United States encompassing parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
Wiregrass Commons Mall is an enclosed shopping mall located in Dothan, Alabama. It has 638,554 square feet (59,000 m 2 ) of shopping with over fifty retail stores and a food court with a carousel. It is Southeast Alabama's largest and only shopping mall.
The museum was founded in 1988, in response to a magazine article that named Dothan as one of the worst places in the United States to live. [3] It hosts traveling exhibits, as well as its permanent collection of American contemporary and pop art, including works by Josef Albers, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, and Frank Stella.
The Wiregrass Blues Festival is an annual blues festival hosted by the Wiregrass Blues Society in Dothan, Alabama. It began in 2011 as a tribute concert to the late country-bluesman and Dothan, Alabama native Eddie Kirkland. The festival currently takes place in April each year with multiple programs and live music performances. [1]
Dothan hosted minor league baseball teams from 1915 to 1917, with the Dothan team (AL-FL-GA League and Dixie League) and from 1936 to 1962 (AL-FL League, GA-FL League and AL State League). Teams were known at varying times as the Boll Weevils, Dothan Browns , Rebels, Cardinals and Phillies.
In April 2011, the Wiregrass Central was named as one of the three railroads being acquired by RailAmerica from Gulf and Ohio for $12.7 million following employee votes to unionize. [2] In 2012, RailAmerica was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming , which is the current operator of the railroad.
Wiregrass Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Hartford, Alabama. It is a member of the Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives (AREA) [ 1 ] and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association .
WDHN produces 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of news each weekday starting with Wake Up Wiregrass at 5 a.m., Daytime at 11 a.m., and then in the evening with WDHN News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Wake Up Wiregrass replaced Top of the Morning with Charlie Platt after its cancellation. The newscast airs weekday mornings from 5 to 7 a.m. (6 to 7 a.m. from relaunch ...