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
Doors that open and close mysteriously. Lights that glow where there is no electric power. The sound of footsteps on a staircase when no one is there. All of these things can be experienced in Selma, Alabama. Is this city haunted? The city is filled with antebellum houses but some people have experienced things that cannot be explained by the settling of old structures.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