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Established in 1879, Harrison Brothers in Huntsville is the state’s oldest operating hardware store.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

In 1894, Fairhope (pop. 12,480) was founded as a single-tax colony by followers of the economic teachings of Henry George, who advocated a single land tax. One settler said the colony had a “fair hope” of success, thus the name.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

Blues singer Willie Mae Thornton sold 2 million copies of her 1953 hit, Hound Dog. Three years later, Elvis Presley made it a rock ’n’ roll classic. Thornton was born in 1926 in Montgomery.

first appeared: 8/24/2003

Dixie Bibb Graves, wife of Gov. David Bibb Graves, became the state’s first female U.S. senator when appointed in 1937 to fill the unexpired term of Hugo Black.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

Oak Mountain State Park at Pelham (pop. 14,369) encompasses 10,000 acres of mountains, forests, and lakes, and is the state’s largest park.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

Nicknamed “the flying schoolgirl,” Katherine Stinson was the fourth female licensed pilot (1912), the first to perform a loop-the-loop (1915), and the first pilot of either sex to fly at night (1915). She was born in 1891 at Fort Payne (pop. 12,938).

first appeared: 8/3/2003

The Alabama Press Association, founded in 1871, is the state’s oldest business organization.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

The state quarter released last March is the nation’s first to feature braille. The quarter honors Helen Keller, who was born in 1880 in Tuscumbia (pop. 7,856) and despite deafness and blindness, learned to speak and read.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

Nicknamed the “Florence Nightingale of the South,” Juliet Opie Hopkins of Mobile established hospitals in Virginia during the Civil War to care for Alabama soldiers.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

Built in 1882, Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham produced pig iron until 1971. The blast furnaces are preserved as an industrial museum and historic landmark.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Opened in 1942, Anniston Army Depot in Anniston (pop. 24,276) maintains Army combat vehicles such as the M1 Abrams tank.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

Fort Deposit (pop. 1,270) was established in 1813 by Gen. Ferdinand Claiborne to be used as a supply depot during the Creek Indian War. The fort grew into a town, incorporated in 1891.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

More than 3,000 injured wild creatures find refuge each year at the Alabama Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham (pop. 14,369).

first appeared: 6/15/2003

Leroy Brown, a bass with personality and intelligence, escaped the skillet and lived famously at Tom Mann’s Fish World in Eufaula (pop. 13,908) until he died in 1981. More than 700 mourners attended his funeral, where the Eufaula High School band played Bad Bad Leroy Brown. Fishing pros served as pallbearers. A marble statue honors the world’s luckiest bass.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

Fifty artsy peanuts, each 5 feet tall, decorate Dothan (pop. 57,737) where 25 percent of the nation’s peanut crop is grown within a 75-mile area.

first appeared: 6/1/2003

The 1952 Cadillac carrying singer Hank Williams the night he died of a heart attack in 1953 is the centerpiece of the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery where the country music legend lived from 1937 to 1953.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

Abby Fisher, a former slave from Mobile, was the first African-American woman to publish a cookbook, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, in 1881.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

Alberta Martin, 96, of Enterprise (pop. 21,178) is the last surviving widow of a Civil War veteran. At 21, she married William Jasper Martin, 81, a former Confederate private.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

Prattville (pop. 24,303) is named after the state’s first millionaire, Daniel Pratt, who manufactured cotton gins. By 1860, he was building 1,500 cotton gins a year, earning $500,000 a year from his enterprises.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

An 11-time NBA All Star, Charles Barkley was born in 1963 in Leeds (pop. 10,455). He amassed 20,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 4,000 assists in a 16-year career with the Philadelphia 76ers, the Phoenix Suns, and the Houston Rockets.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

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