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Alabama is composed of six regions—the Black Belt, the East Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, the Appalachian Ridge and Valley, the Cumberland Plateau, and the Interior Low Plateau.

first appeared: 7/14/2002

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, 28-year-old Vonetta Flowers of Birmingham became the first ever African-American to win a gold medal in the Winter Games when she and bobsled partner Jill Bakken won the first ever women’s bobsled event.

first appeared: 7/7/2002

The Southern Star, a weekly newspaper in Ozark (pop. 15,119), has been published by the Adams family since the 1870s.

first appeared: 6/30/2002

Old Cahawba, Alabama’s first capital, is now a ghost town with a welcome center featuring archaeological finds and photos of the homes and businesses that once occupied this antebellum river town.

first appeared: 6/23/2002

The Little Red Schoolhouse in Enterprise (pop. 21,178) is a replica of the schools dotting America in the 1800s, featuring desks, books, and chalkboards of the past.

first appeared: 6/16/2002

Visitors can watch baseball games played by teams dressed in vintage uniforms at the nation’s oldest ballpark still in use, Rickwood Field in Birmingham. It was completed in 1910.

first appeared: 6/9/2002

Barton Hall in Cherokee (pop. 1,237) is said to contain one of the South’s most interesting stairways, climbing in a series of double flights and landings to a rooftop observatory.

first appeared: 6/2/2002

Walleye are cool water fish not often associated with southern waters. But luckily for Alabama, all its large rivers contain walleye.

first appeared: 5/26/2002

Born in Tuskegee (pop. 11,846) in 1870, Annie Mathilde Bilbro is considered the most prolific of Alabama composers, having written 600 musical compositions, including sheet form piano pieces and books of piano music.

first appeared: 5/19/2002

In 1702, the first French colony on the Gulf Coast began under the leadership of Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville. The Old Mobile colony served as the capital of French Louisiana until 1711 on what is now Axis (pop. 400).

first appeared: 5/12/2002

Fort Toulouse was built by the French in 1717 near Wetumpka (pop. 5,726). After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the fort was abandoned, but in 1814 Andrew Jackson built Fort Jackson on the site.

first appeared: 5/5/2002

Prussian-born Nicola Marschall, an art teacher in Marion (pop. 3,511), designed the “Stars and Bars” flag of the Confederate States of America. The flag was first flown above the state Capitol in Alabama on March 4, 1861.

first appeared: 4/28/2002

In 1906, Greek immigrants Jason Malbis and William Pappageorge purchased land near Daphne (pop. 16,581) to establish the Greek community of Malbis.

first appeared: 4/21/2002

Alabama Hall of Famer Clement Comer Clay was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1820 to 1823. In 1835, Clay was elected the state’s eighth governor.

first appeared: 4/14/2002

The state’s first cotton gin was built by Abram Mordecai around 1803 in Montgomery County.

first appeared: 4/7/2002

Blakeley State Park, encompassing 3,800 acres, is the largest site on the National Register of Historic Places east of the Mississippi River. The Battle of Fort Blakeley was fought here April 9, 1865, hours after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

first appeared: 3/31/2002

At 60 feet high and 148 feet long, Natural Bridge of Alabama in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

Selma (pop. 20,512) has the country’s largest area of connected historical sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

Frank Park Samford, born in Troy (pop. 13,935) in 1893, served 34 years as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard College. The school was renamed Samford University in 1965.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

Leroy “Satchel” Paige was born in 1906 in Mobile. In 1948, he became the oldest rookie in the major league and was the first African-American to pitch in a World Series game.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

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