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Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, a medieval-looking sanctuary in Hanceville (pop. 2,246), contains materials from around the world, such as marble pillars from Italy, stained glass windows from Germany, and roofing tiles from Columbia, South America.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

The Little River, in northeast Alabama, is the nation’s longest mountaintop river, flowing almost its entire length down the middle of Lookout Mountain. It empties into Weiss Lake.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

Sculptor Geneva Mercer, born in Jefferson in 1889, was the first Alabama artist to have her work chronicled by the Smithsonian.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

The Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard in Colbert County (pop. 52,400) is a final resting place for man’s best friend. Underwood first buried his beloved coon dog, Troop, there in 1937. Since then, more than 100 coon dogs have joined Troop.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

Hunters gather at Union Springs (pop. 3,975), the “Bird Dog Field Trial Capital of the World,” to annually compete in the trials, which test a bird dog’s ability to hunt and find quail.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

Mentone (pop. 474) was founded in 1870 by John Mason, who moved his family there from New York City, hoping that the mountain air would restore his failing health. When Mason’s daughter read about Queen Victoria’s vacation at Mentone, France, a name meaning “musical mountain spring,” Mason found it fitting of his new town and named it so.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

William Levi Dawson, born in 1899 in Anniston (pop. 26,000), organized the School of Music at Tuskegee in 1931. The Tuskegee Choir was a main attraction at the grand opening of New York’s Radio City Music Hall in 1932.

first appeared: 4/8/2001

Houston County (pop. 83,300) is Alabama’s youngest county, formed in 1903 from portions of Geneva, Henry, and Dale counties.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

Soul legend Percy Sledge, whose hits included When a Man Loves a Woman, worked as a field hand in Leighton (pop. 988), his hometown, and as a hospital orderly before finding international success in music.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

Sumiton (pop. 2,604) was so named because at 522 feet, it is located at one of the highest elevations in Walker County, at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

Tuscumbia (pop. 8,413) native Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874-1941), a teacher, philanthropist, and writer, founded Alabama’s first free kindergarten in 1898.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

Annie Rowan Forney Daugette initiated a movement to restore Alabama’s original Great Seal. After General Assembly approval in 1939, she drew a seal similar to the original one used in 1819 when Alabama first became a state.

first appeared: 3/4/2001

The University of Northern Alabama, in Florence (pop. 38,000), has the only college football team ever to win 40 games in a three-year span. The winning streak occurred from 1993 to 1995.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

Dixie Bibb Graves, born near Montgomery, became Alabama’s first female state senator when she was appointed in 1937.

first appeared: 2/18/2001

Boaz (pop. 7,500) was founded in 1897 by people who wanted to establish a town based on family values. It is named after the biblical character in the Book of Ruth.

first appeared: 2/11/2001

Gardendale (pop. 9,251), founded in the 1830s, originally was called Jugtown because of a crockery jug factory there. The name was changed in 1906 to better reflect the area.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

Educator Julia Strudwick Tutwiler, born in 1841 in Tuscaloosa, was responsible for securing the admission of women to the University of Alabama.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

Gaze up state route 77 near Lincoln (pop. 2,941) and you can see the Sleeping Giant—a collection of foothills that resembles a man sleeping on the horizon.

first appeared: 1/21/2001

Wetumpka (pop. 4,670) is located on the western brim of a four-mile-wide crater created by a meteorite about 65 million years ago.

first appeared: 1/14/2001

Huntsville, once a small cotton town, became known as America’s Space Capital when scientists there developed the rocket that orbited America’s first satellite in the late 1950s.

first appeared: 1/7/2001

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