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Big Spring Cafe is a diner in Huntsville, Alabama. [1] It opened in 1922, and is the oldest restaurant in the city. [2] [3] It is often noted as a landmark in the city and as one of Huntsville's "signature" restaurants. [4] [5] When the original location opened, it served only hamburgers consisting of ground beef, onions, mustard and salt on a ...
The Lincoln Mill and Mill Village Historic District is a historic district in Huntsville, Alabama. Opened in 1900, it quickly grew to be Huntsville's largest cotton mill in the first quarter of the 20th century. After closing in 1955, the mills were converted to office space that was used by the U.S. space program.
Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and 95th most populous in the US. [12] It is the county seat of Madison County with portions extending into Limestone County and Morgan County. [13] It is located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, [14] [15] south of the state of Tennessee.
In Nashville, for example, most restaurants agreed to serve non-whites in the early 1960s in response to the civil rights movement, but Morrison's stubbornly refused. Civil rights demonstrations led by John Lewis were held at Morrison's Cafeteria in Nashville in 1964, with police attacking peaceful protesters in front of the restaurant.
Rolo (/ ˈ r oʊ l oʊ / ROH-loh), referring to the roll-styled chocolates, is a brand of truncated cone-shaped or conical frustum-shaped chocolates with a caramel inside. First manufactured in Norwich, Norfolk in the United Kingdom by Mackintosh's in 1937 (followed by Rowntree's after the takeover in 1969), they are made by Nestlé (except in the United States, where production has been ...
The restaurant was established by Milo Carlton, who, on April 16, 1946, opened Milo's Hamburger Shop in Birmingham, at 31st Street and 12th Avenue North. The restaurant moved to 2820 10th Avenue North in 1963. Milo's began selling franchises in 1983; the first franchise location, at 509 18th Street South in Birmingham, opened February 7, 1983.
Twickenham Historic District was the first historic district designated in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1973, with a boundary increase on May 26, 2015. The name derives from an early name for the town of Huntsville, named after Twickenham, England, by LeRoy Pope.