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Montgomery
Located in South central Alabama,
Montgomery is the capital and second largest city of the state.
As of the 2000 census, the city's population was 201,568.
Montgomery was briefly, in 1861, the capital of the Confederate States of
America during the American Civil War. However, when
Virginia seceded from the Union,
the Confederacy moved their capital to
Richmond.
Many important events in the civil rights movement took place in
Montgomery.
Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor of the Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church in Montgomery, from
1954 to
1960.
Rosa Parks' refusal to give-up her bus-seat to a white man,
also took place in Montgomery, and this led to the 382-day Montgomery
Bus Boycott which eventually persuaded the city to desegregate its transit
system.
Attractions in Montgomery include:
Here is some more information about Montgomery:
- The main professional sports franchise in Montgomery is the baseball team, the Montgomery Biscuits.
Here is the seven day weather forecast for Montgomery:
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Here are some posters of Montgomery that you can buy:
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Civil Rights Activists Coretta King and Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, 1975 16" X 16" Photographic Print
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Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 16" X 12" Premium Poster
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Night, Montgomery, Alabama 12" X 8" Premium Poster
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Montgomery, Alabama - Airplane Flying over Court Square, Commerce St 16" X 12" Premium Poster
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Rosa Parks Woman Who Touched Off Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott by African Americans 18" X 24" Premium Photographic Print Artist: Paul Schutzer.
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Street Scene, Montgomery, Alabama 12" X 8" Premium Poster
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Confederate Monument, Montgomery, Alabama 8" X 12" Premium Poster
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Spiral Staircase, State Capitol Building, Montgomery, Alabama 9" X 12" Photographic Print Artist: Mark Gibson.
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USA, Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama State Capitol, Police Monument 12" X 9" Photographic Print Artist: Walter Bibikow.
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Montgomery, Alabama 16" X 12" Photographic Print Artist: Stocktrek Images.
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State Capitol Montgomery Alabama 16" X 12" Premium Poster
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Field Workers at Montgomery, Alabama, 1861 24" X 18" Giclee Print
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Political Map of Montgomery, AL 16" X 12" Premium Poster
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Civil Rights, the Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965, 1965 16" X 12" Premium Poster
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State Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama 12" X 8" Premium Poster
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Here are a few books about Montgomery that you might enjoy reading:
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By Jeffrey Fisher
Released: 2012-01-09 Kindle Edition
 | | Product Description: This guide offers information on the haunted locations of Montgomery, Alabama. Each location includes information on its history, and the ghosts believed to haunt the property. |
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By Doug Gelbert
Released: 2011-08-04 Kindle Edition (53 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.
Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out when those pesky street addresses are missing. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.
Most town founders who settled America had grand dreams for the ventures they were starting; most would be unrealized. Andrew Dexter was no different. In 1816, after he purchased a chunk of Mississippi Territorial land on the south bank of the Alabama River in and started laying out building plots he gave his new town the name of New Philadelphia, echoing the nation's first capital city. So sure was Dexter that his town would one day be the seat of a new state government that he reserved a plot of land up on top of Goat Hill for a capitol building. Dexter's wasn't even the only town in the area. Right next door was a settlement of Georgians led by General John Scott called East Alabama.
The two fledgling towns bickered as they grew and finally on December 3, 1819, eleven days before Alabama became a state, the two towns merged and called themselves Montgomery. Mind you, the town didn't simply take its name for Montgomery County, which had been formed three years earlier and named in honor of Major Lemuel Purnell Montgomery, who was fighting with Andrew Jackson in the wars with the Creek Indians and was killed in 1814 at the battle of Horseshoe Bend. No, the town of Montgomery would claim as its namesake General Richard Montgomery, Irish born and raised and killed 1275 miles away while attacking the British fortress in Quebec, Canada in the early days of the American Revolution.
Andrew Dexter's dream would be realized in 1846 when the Alabama state capital was shifted from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery and a beautiful Greek Revival capitol building was erected on Goat Hill. Fifteen years later Dexter's Goat Hill would become the capital of a country when the Confederate States of America was formed here and Montgomery was its first capital city. Andrew Dexter would not be around to see any of this, however. The size of his dreams always outstripped his ability to execute them. A native Rhode Islander, he started a bank whose great success urned out to be fraudulent sending him to Canada to escape debtor's prison. When he purchased the land that would become Montgomery he didn't have the cash and had to borrow the money. His time in the town he founded was aswirl in debts and lawsuits and Dexter would eventually be arrested for debt in Mobile and die in prison there in 1837 at the age of 58.
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By Michael A. Godfrey
The University of North Carolina Press Released: 1997-09-17 Paperback (536 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: America's most populous region is also home to some of the nation's most serenely beautiful country. Tracing a gentle, thousand-mile curve from New York City southwestward to Montgomery, Alabama, the Piedmont connects an arc of urban centers which includes five state capitals, America's largest city, and the national capital. Between the Atlantic coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Piedmont's rolling hills span miles of farmland and forest. Michael Godfrey's Field Guide to the Piedmont—originally published by Sierra Club Books and here newly revised and updated—is an informative and entertaining guide to the entire region's habitats, ecosystems, and rich botanical communities. Focusing on plant succession, geology, soils, climate, and the plants and animals with which we share the land, Field Guide to the Piedmont also features 180 illustrations for easy identification of the Piedmont's principal flora and fauna. A chapter describing and providing directions to over fifty sites of special interest will inspire Piedmont residents to take this field guide in hand and explore their natural surroundings. |
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By Lyn Wilkerson
Caddo Publications USA Released: 2009-10-03 Kindle Edition (218 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This edition in the Slow Travels series explores the State of Alabama. U.S. 11 follows a diagonal from the northeastern corner of the state, traveling along the valleys of the southern Appalachians to Birmingham. Beyond Birmingham, the highway runs through open rolling hills to Tuscaloosa and the Mississippi Line. U.S. 31 bisects the state, starting in the plateau west of Huntsville and traveling south to Montgomery. From the state capital, the highway turns southwest to the panhandle and Mobile Bay. U.S. 72 crosses northern Alabama, following the route of the Tennessee River through Huntsville and Florence. U.S. 78 cuts across the state, passing through the mountains around Talladega, past Birmingham and into the lesser populated territory to the west. Finally, U.S. 80 explores the deep history of central Alabama, starting west of Columbus, Georgia, and passing through the state capitol and along the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail to Demopolis and Mississippi. |
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By Mary Ann Oglesby Neeley
University Alabama Press Paperback (128 pages)
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Old Alabama Town is a visual and historical chronicle of one of the South's important architectural landmarks—four blocks of 19th-century buildings restored to their original condition, collectively forming an educational village that preserves and displays life as it was lived in Alabama from the 1830s through the 1890s. A creation of the Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery, a nonprofit organization developed in 1967, Old Alabama Town displays the lifestyles and environment of the time period through architecture, decorative arts, and living history. The "town" has been made available for students, secondary school educators for field trips, and to tourists for entertainment and family excursions. More than 50 historic structures, all formerly in danger of demolition, have been transported from around central Alabama and restored on site. The Living Block of the village allows visitors to explore a log cabin, dogtrot house, carriage house, "shotgun" house, pole barn, schoolhouse, tavern, grange hall, and grocery. The Working Block allows patrons to visit a blacksmith's shop, drugstore, grist mill, cotton gin, woodcarver's shop, print shop, and cookhouse. Additional regions of the village present some of the most significant historic homes to be preserved in the state: the Cram-Lakin House, Thompson Mansion, and the Ordeman-Mitchell-Shaw House, among others. Designed in full color, this paperback guide is introduced by the author's historical, sociological, and cultural overview of Montgomery. The 45 individual entries detail the history and features of each structure and are supplemented by a map, archival photographs of the buildings, and 60 contempo-rary color photographs. This book will be useful to tourists, preservationists, students and scholars of Alabama history and architecture, and all those interested in an interpretive museum of southern life. |
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By Anonymous -
Released: 2012-01-28 Kindle Edition
 | | Product Description: The year 1865 saw Montgomery an utterly exhausted little town of some six thousand people, with three broken-down railroads. The year 1888 finds her a city of 30,000 people, with six well-equipped railroads. Her sole resource was trade with the cotton planters of the surrounding country, and such enterprise as men might exhibit who started life over without a dollar. This difference between 1865 and 1888 is stated to show the discerning reader that there is a source of wealth here, and that the people have utilized it as fast as they could accumulate capital to develop it.
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Rand McNally Paperback
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Click Here | Product Description: This detailed map of Montgomery, Alabama has complete coverage for the city and surrounding area, with an inset map for downtown, plus most major tourist and business districts. When you flip the map over, you will find a complete street index and a "city and vicinity" map of the entire metro area. |
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American Map Spiral-bound (96 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: American Map puts you in control by supplying the "big picture" as well as the details. Meticulously researched and continually updated, each map features the latest road changes, easy-to-use reference keys, color-coding and a comprehensive index. |
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By Rand McNally and Company
Rand McNally Map
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Click Here | Product Description: The durable and convenient EasyFinderTM of Montgomery, Alabama will take all the wear and tear your journey can dish out. The laminated design allows you to mark your route, make notes, then wipe the surface clean for further use.
This map features enhanced cartography with: Clearly indicated highways, County Boundaries, Streets, Points of Interest and National Parks. |
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By Wendi Lewis
Community Communications Inc. Hardcover (384 pages)
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