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Dadeville (pop. 3,212) has been the seat of Tallapoosa County since 1838.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

Bibb County is named for William Wyatt Bibb, the first governor of the state of Alabama in 1819.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

John W. Heisman, for whom college football’s coveted Heisman Trophy is named, coached at Auburn University in Auburn from 1895 to 1899.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

Pelham (pop. 14,369) is named for Confederate Maj. John Pelham, singled out by Gen. Robert E. Lee for gallantry in action.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

The Tuscumbia Depot in Colbert County was the site of the first railroad west of the Allegheny Mountains. It was completed in the early 1830s.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

John J. Pratt, a newspaperman from Centre (pop. 3,216), invented what is said to be the first typewriter. His 1868 “pterotype” is in the National Museum in Washington, D.C.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

Born in Huntsville, Leroy Pope Walker became the first Confederate secretary of war on Feb. 21, 1861. Much of the Confederacy’s success during the first year of the Civil War was due to his efforts in recruiting troops.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

The National Peanut Festival is held each fall in Dothan to celebrate the harvest. Roughly half the peanuts grown in the United States are grown within 100 miles of Dothan.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

A 1942 graduate of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee (pop. 11,846), Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. in 1975 became the first African-American officer in U.S. history to attain four-star general rank.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Country music legend Hank Williams Sr. was born Hiram Williams on Sept. 17, 1923, in Georgiana (pop. 1,737). His hits included Hey, Good Lookin’ and Your Cheatin’ Heart.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

George Lindsey, best known for his role as Goober on The Andy Griffith Show, was raised in Jasper (pop. 14,052).

first appeared: 12/16/2001

Hal’s Lake near Carlton (pop. 30) reportedly is named for an escaped slave from Mississippi who legend says discovered the isolated body of water in the late 1840s.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

Fossilized remains of zeuglodons, a whale-like sea animal estimated to be more than 45 million years old, were first found in Clarke County in the early 1830s. In 1984, the zeuglodon was named Alabama’s state fossil.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

Boxer Joe Louis was born Joseph Louis Barrow in Lafayette (pop. 3,234) on May 13, 1914. “The Brown Bomber”—heavyweight champion from 1937 until 1949—recorded 54 knockouts in his career.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Prattville’s (pop. 24,303) 26-acre Wilderness Park was the first of its kind in the country to be developed in a city. Dedicated in 1982, the park has hundreds of plant varieties.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Born in Lawrence County in 1913, track star Jesse Owens broke world and Olympic records in the 1936 Berlin games by winning four gold medals.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

Benjamin Sterling Turner became the state’s first African-American congressman when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1871. Turner began his political career as a county tax collector in 1867.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

The Rosenbaum House in Florence (pop. 36,264) is the state’s only structure designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

The monarch butterfly, Alabama’s official insect, migrates thousands of miles to central Mexico every fall, returning in the spring.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

The state’s geographic center is in Chilton County, about 12 miles southwest of Clanton (pop. 7,800).

first appeared: 10/14/2001

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