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Blount County’s (pop. 51,024) Horton Mill Bridge is the highest covered bridge over water in the United States. It stands 70 feet above the Calvert Prong of the Warrior River.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

Football took Paul “Bear” Bryant away from his boyhood Arkansas farm to a scholarship at the University of Alabama. As head football coach there in 1981, he became the winningest coach in college football history. Although this record recently was eclipsed, he retired in 1982 with 323 victories.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

Larvae of the official state insect, the monarch butterfly, dine only on milkweed plants. Toxin from the plants make the monarch a poisonous snack for birds and other predators.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in this state, which introduced the celebration to the Western world as Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent begins.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park near Daviston (pop. 267) preserves the site of the last battle of the Creek War of 1813-1814.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

Founded in 1888, the Woman’s Missionary Union in Birmingham is the world’s largest Protestant organization for women and has a membership of about 1 million.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

Founded in 1822, Athens State University in Athens (pop. 18,967) is the state’s oldest university.

first appeared: 12/14/2003

In the 1880s, a speculating landowner in Franklin County promised railroad officials that he’d name any town built adjacent to his property after the project engineer. Phil Campbell (pop. 1,091) was incorporated in 1911.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

The 1935 home of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath in Theodore (pop. 6,811), the first Coca-Cola bottlers for Mobile, was built with brick salvaged from antebellum mansions, ironwork from an 1830s hotel, and flagstone from downtown Mobile.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

Adopted in 1993 as the state’s official outdoor musical drama, The Incident at Looney’s Tavern depicts the lives of Winston County’s independent settlers who fought the South’s secession during the Civil War. The group organized July 4, 1861, at Looney’s Tavern in Double Springs (pop. 1,003).

first appeared: 11/23/2003

U.S. Vice President William Rufus King was elected in 1852, but died of tuberculosis before performing a single official act. He is buried in Selma (pop. 20,512).

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Established in 1842, Marion Military Institute in Marion (pop. 3,511) is the nation’s oldest military junior college.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

Born in 1919, Montgomery native and jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole became the first African-American to host a network TV show, The Nat “King” Cole Show, in 1956.

first appeared: 11/2/2003

In 1796, U.S. agent Benjamin Hawkins reported to President George Washington on the magnificence of DeSoto Caverns near Childersburg (pop. 4,927), making this the nation’s first officially reported cave.

first appeared: 10/26/2003

Betsy Rogers of Leeds (pop. 10,455) Elementary School was named the 2003 National Teacher of the Year, an award presented by President George W. Bush.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Built in 1862, the 35-foot-high Cornwall Furnace in Cedar Bluff (pop. 1,467) is the best preserved cold blast furnace built by the Confederate States of America. It produced iron for making cannons.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

Called “the football game that changed the South,” the University of Alabama defeated the University of Washington, 20-19, at the 1926 Rose Bowl. It was the first time a Southern team was invited to a bowl game.

first appeared: 10/5/2003

Twenty-two hundred bales of straw insulate the 1936 Burritt Mansion in Huntsville. The 14-room estate is the centerpiece of a 167-acre park, which includes historic log buildings and nature trails.

first appeared: 9/28/2003

The state’s 1901 constitution is the nation’s longest with 315,000 words and more than 700 amendments.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

The state has operated under six constitutions, adopted in 1819, 1861, 1865, 1868, 1875, and 1901.

first appeared: 9/14/2003

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