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The state’s official spirit is Conecuh Ridge Fine Alabama Whiskey, adopted in April 2004.

first appeared: 6/13/2004

Mobile’s reputation as the Azalea City blossomed after Fifise Langlois brought the bright pink flowers there in 1754 from his father’s garden in France.

first appeared: 6/6/2004

Russell Cave National Monument at Bridgeport (pop. 2,728) showcases prehistoric cultures that inhabited the cave as early as 7000 B.C.

first appeared: 5/30/2004

The Ellicott Stone, a boundary marker in Mobile County, was set by Andrew Ellicott, who surveyed the line of demarcation between the United States and Spanish territory from 1798 to 1800.

first appeared: 5/23/2004

Conecuh County was designated the state’s Collard Greens Capital in 1998.

first appeared: 5/16/2004

Prairie Grove Glades Preserve near Moulton (pop. 3,260) dazzles each spring with wildflowers, including 12 rare plants such as Alabama larkspur and Harper’s umbrella plant.

first appeared: 5/9/2004

Ann Lowe, born in 1898 in Clayton (pop. 1,475), designed the wedding gown worn by Jacqueline Bouvier when she married President-to-be John F. Kennedy in 1953.

first appeared: 5/2/2004

Hank Williams wrote his hit song Kaw-Liga in August 1952 while vacationing at Lake Martin near Alexander City (pop. 15,008). The cabin he used has been restored.

first appeared: 4/25/2004

At the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in Birmingham, visitors can travel from the beginnings of boogie-woogie with Clarence “Pinetop” Smith to the jazz space journeys of Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Space Arkestra.

first appeared: 4/18/2004

Coosa County was created in 1832 and named for the Coosa River at its western boundary. “Coosa” means “canebrake” in the Alibama-Kossati Indian dialect.

first appeared: 4/11/2004

Tallapoosa County was formed in 1832, and derives its name from the Tallapoosa River. Tallapoosa means “pulverized rock” in the Choctaw Indian language.

first appeared: 4/4/2004

Athens (pop. 18,967) was the first city in the state in 1934 to use power from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

first appeared: 3/28/2004

Congress organized the Alabama Territory in 1817, with St. Stephens as its capital on the Tombigbee River. Two years later, Alabama was granted statehood.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

The Rosa Parks Library and Museum in Montgomery is testament to the seamstress who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement.

first appeared: 3/14/2004

With nearly 22 million acres of forest growing more than 15 billion trees, the state has the third largest commercial forest in the United States. Forests cover two-thirds of the state.

first appeared: 3/7/2004

The “Black Belt,” which stretches through the middle of the state, is known for its rich, black soil. It was once the heart of America’s cotton kingdom.

first appeared: 2/29/2004

The state’s official insect, the Monarch butterfly, migrates up to 3,700 miles to its winter grounds in California and Mexico and back again in spring. Like all butterflies, it tastes with its feet.

first appeared: 2/22/2004

Helen Keller of Tuscumbia (pop. 7,856) loved hot dogs, was an excellent typist, and was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree—from Radcliffe College in 1904, with honors.

first appeared: 2/15/2004

The pecan is Alabama’s official nut, and is the only major nut tree native to the United States.

first appeared: 2/8/2004

The state’s official nut is the pecan, which has been grown in Alabama commercially since the early 1900s. Pecans are a good source of vitamin B-6, and are used in Southern recipes such as pralines and pecan pie.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

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