Tuesday 28 February 2023

The Significant Landmarks of Alabama

Pioneer Museum of Alabama - Homestead
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and with a Gulf of Mexico coastline. 

The state is home to significant landmarks from the American Civil Rights Movement. 

The city of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, now a museum, was a protest headquarters in the 1960s.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church and the Rosa Parks Museum, dedicated to the activist, can be found in the capital of Montgomery. 

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center 

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center, in Huntsville, is the world’s largest space museum. 

The Hank Williams’s centenary 

Alabamian Hiram “Hank” Williams, born in 1923, was one of the most influential country music singer songwriters. The Hank Williams Trail takes in his childhood home preserved as a museum in Georgiana. Montgomery, and where the Hank Williams Museum has some of his stage costumes, guitars, and the 1952 blue Cadillac in which he died, aged 29. His grave is in nearby Oakwood Cemetery. 
www.deep-southusa.com/alabama/fly-drives/hankwilliams-trail and
www.thehankwilliamsmuseum.net

The Alabama BBQ trail

The BBQ trail on Alabama’s smartphone app, features the Original Alabama White Sauce invented at Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur and the special house slaw at Brooks Barbeque in Muscle Shoals. Brenda’s Bar-B-Q Pit in west Montgomery is where its founder secretly tutored neighbourhood residents to pass the literacy test, which was required for them to register to vote. 
www.deep-south-usa.com/alabama/cultureand-cuisine/bbq-restaurants-trail 

North Alabama wine trail 

This wine trail features six wineries . 

100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama 

The 100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama guide is a celebration of Alabama's rich culinary history and diverse range of cuisine. It provides a collection of Alabama’s unique most interesting eateries. www.alabama.travel/experiencealabama/food-and-drink/100-dishes Alabama’s nature Alabama offers white sand Gulf Coast beaches, lakes for fishing or kayaking, the foothills of the Appalachians, and 21 state parks with campsites, cabins and lodges. The state’s coast has 28 miles of trails to explore on foot, by bike or Segway. There’s the chance to go kayaking in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, with its plethora of wildlife, or canoe to see the endangered Cahaba lily in the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge near Birmingham. For something more strenuous, the Appalachians have the long-distance Pinhoti trail as well as vast forests and towering waterfalls. 

FAME studios 

FAME studios 

Rick Hall’s FAME studios in Muscle Shoals celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023 and there is a new behind-the-scenes tour. 

The schooner Clotilda 

The remains of the scuttled schooner Clotilda, the last known American slave ship was discovered and identified in 2019. The story of the ship’s 110 prisoners will be the focus of the Africatown Heritage House opens its doors in 2023, with artefacts from the ship and multisensory exhibit. Visitors will also be able to take a tour in Africatown with descendants sharing stories of their ancestors who survived enslavement and settled their community north of Mobile. The Netflix documentary Descendant highlights the Clotilda survivors and their lineage in Africatown and National Geographic documentary Clotilda: last American Slave Ship, is on Disney Plus. www.africatownhpf.org, www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/clotilda-the-last-american-slave-ship-found-inalabama and 

AllWays travellers to Alabama 

AllWays traveller to Birmingham 
AllWays Traveller to Alabama’s Gulf Shores http://www.allways.williamjack.ekei.pl/continents/america-n/in-the-outdoors-on-alabamas-gulf-shores AllWays Traveller to Montgomery 
AllWays Traveller to Mobile Bay 

*Source: Surinder Manku at surinder@5fmarketing.com

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