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Fort Payne (pop. 12,938) baked the world’s largest birthday cake—128,238 pounds—for its centennial in 1989. The record crumbled last May when Las Vegas baked its own centennial cake, which weighed 130,000 pounds.

first appeared: 9/25/2005

Holy Spirit School students Sam Robinson and Farrell Robinson (no relation) of Huntsville founded Pocket Change for Peds in 2003, placed piggy banks in classrooms and collected $2,500 for toys for the Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children. They’ve recruited students from other north Alabama schools to help with their next project: raising $75,000 for a hospital playground.

first appeared: 9/18/2005

The state’s No. 1 tourist attraction is Riverchase Galleria, a shopping mall in Hoover (pop. 62,742) with six major department stores, 200 specialty shops and lodging beneath a nine-story glass atrium.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (1903-1968), star of the 1944 Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat, once remarked, "I’m pure as the driven slush." She was born in Huntsville and raised in Jasper (pop. 14,052) and Montgomery in a prominent Alabama family. Her grandfather was a U.S. senator, her father was speaker of the House of Representatives, and her aunt, Marie Bankhead Owen, was director of the Alabama State Archives, the first woman to head a department in the state’s government.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

More than 900 motorcycles dating back to 1904 are parked at Birmingham’s Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, which also features one of the world’s largest collections of motorcycle literature.

first appeared: 8/28/2005

Chief Ladiga Trail is the state’s first extensive rails-to-trails project with a 33-mile bicycle trail linking Piedmont (pop. 5,120), Jacksonville (pop. 8,404), Weaver (pop. 2,619) and Anniston (pop. 24,276). The trail is named for an early 19th-century Creek Indian chief in northern Alabama.

first appeared: 8/14/2005

The 191-mile Cahaba River is the state’s longest free-flowing river and supports more than 130 fish species, more than any U.S. river its size, along with the world’s largest population of shoal or Cahaba lily. The river flows from Springville (pop. 2,521) to the Alabama River near Selma (pop. 20,512).

first appeared: 7/31/2005

One of the state’s oldest family-owned businesses, Bon Secour Fisheries in Bon Secour (pop. 900) began in 1896 as a small oyster house and has grown into a major seafood processing plant that packs Nelson’s Brand Oysters and other seafood.

first appeared: 7/17/2005

More than 40 historic structures—houses, a gristmill, cotton gin, drugstore and print shop—have been restored and relocated to the four-block Old Alabama Town in Montgomery. The 1880s village is a project of the Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery.

first appeared: 6/19/2005

Covering 69,000 acres, Lake Guntersville between Bridgeport (pop. 2,728) and Guntersville (pop. 7,395) is the state’s largest lake and popular with bass fishermen. It was created in 1938 when the Tennessee Valley Authority dammed portions of the Tennessee River for flood control and hydroelectric power.

first appeared: 6/5/2005

The Alabama Coastal Birding Trail maps nearly 50 birding sites in Baldwin and Mobile counties, including sites in Dauphin Island (pop. 1,371) and Orange Beach (pop. 3,784). Gulls, terns, egrets and other waterfowl can be observed along the trail.

first appeared: 5/22/2005

During World War I, the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. bought a large tract of land that included present-day Chickasaw (pop. 6,364), north of Mobile. The company constructed a shipyard and built a town, which included a community center and health clinic for its workers. In 1946, the town was privatized and incorporated.

first appeared: 5/8/2005

The state’s waterways yield one of the nation’s richest sources of freshwater mussels, with about 180 species.

first appeared: 4/24/2005

Native fish swim in the cafeteria aquarium, trees line hallways and displays feature bird calls at Munford Elementary School in Munford (pop. 2,446). The school was built with an environmental-education theme.

first appeared: 4/10/2005

Between Red Bay (pop. 3,374) and Tuscumbia (pop. 7,856), 185 hounds, including Patches and Night Ranger, are buried at the Coon Dog Cemetery, established on Sept. 4, 1937, when Key Underwood buried his dog Troop there. Man’s best hunting friend is remembered during a memorial celebration at the cemetery each Labor Day.

first appeared: 3/27/2005

Lionel Richie, born in Tuske-gee (pop. 11,846), co-wrote the song We Are the World in 1985 with Michael Jackson.

first appeared: 3/13/2005

Covering more than 180,000 acres in Franklin, Lawrence and Winston counties, the William B. Bankhead National Forest is the state’s largest forest.

first appeared: 2/27/2005

The 1837 St. James Hotel in Selma (pop. 20,512) was restored during a $6 million project in 1997. Benjamin Sterling Turner, the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Alabama, once managed the hotel.

first appeared: 1/30/2005

Though blind by the age of 15, Florence Golson Bateman (1891-1987), of Wetumpka (pop. 5,726), graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Conservatory of Music. She dedicated one of her early works, The Bird With a Broken Wing, to Helen Keller, whose life had inspired the young musician.

first appeared: 1/16/2005

The Mobile-Tensaw River Delta provides habitat for 250 species of migratory birds, 230 species of fish, black bear, river otter and beaver. The delta extends 35 miles from the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers to Mobile Bay.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

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