Mobile, Alabama is known as The Azalea City. But the spring explosion of blooms is a relatively new tradition. Azaleas were imported during the 1920s to create a tourist attraction. “On the Azalea Trail” tells about the flowering of tourism based on Mobile’s flora and fauna and the development of the area’s horticultural industry. SHOW ME NOW
In the summer of 1819, 44 men gathered inside the cabinet maker’s shop in Huntsville to write Alabama’s first constitution–the document that would create the laws necessary to enable this new territory to become a state. The Northwest Ordinance declared that a territory could become a state when its population grew to 60,000. The 1818 census revealed Alabama had reached that mark.SHOW ME NOW
Tour mansions where the slave owners are glorified and follow with reverence the route of the Selma to Montgomery march which led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The strip of black prairie land that crosses central Alabama is known as the Black Belt and Highway 80 runs through it. This land was the birthplace of the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. SHOW ME NOW
