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A925 Alabama State Tour Series    Sawyers

GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING. Alabama, 29th in size
among the states, lies in the Old South's cotton country. The
Black Belt spans the state's center. To the northeast are
the Appalachian Mountains and the slate's highest point,
2,407-foot-high Cheaha Mountain. South of the Belt lies
the broad, coastal, alluvial plain.

THE HUMAN SIDE. Among the states, Alabama ranks
19th in population with 3,266,000 people. Slightly more
than one-half are white; the balance are Negro. In some
Black Belt counties, they outnumber whites by four-to-one.
 

 THE YELLOWHAMMER STATE,
Alabama's Black Belt (named for its
rich soil) lies less than 200 miles
from the Marshall Space Flight Center. In that distance, time leaps from
the period of plantations and slaves
to the era of moon exploration.) Between these extremes lies most of
Alabama's history.From 1719, when the first shipload of slaves arrived,
Alabama's future lay with plantations and farming. The
first crops, during French rule, were indigo and rice. England replaced France as the area's leading power. Cotton became an important crop, and with (he development of the cotton gin, the main crop.

Alabama became a state in 1919, After the Civil War,
it suffered far more from Reconstruction than from the war
itself. When orderly rule was reestablished in 1976, the
state and many of its cities were bankrupt.

Iron furnaces began production around the turn of the
twentieth century, heralding a shift from total reliance on
King Cotton. The abundance of natural resources drew

heavy industry to the Birmingham area. When Tennessee
Valley Authority was created in 1935, Alabama got a
boost from the cheap power and fertilizer produced. Now,
with the Space Age being dreamed into reality at Huntsvilic, Alabama has moved ahead of some of its more "modern" neighbors in twentieth century technology.

A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES. Cotton is the main crop
—almost one million bales per year- But Alabama also produces sugar cane, tobacco, pecans, peanuts, corn and hay.
it ranks liflli among the nation's iron-producing stales.
More than twenty-seven billion kilowatt-hours of electrical
energy are generated each year.


 

View-Master Reel 1
1. Russell Cave, Bridgeport
2. Huntsville Civic Center
3. Space Museum, Huntsville
4. Fertilizer Testing, Muscle Shoals
5. Ave Maria Grotto, Cullman
6. Little River Canyon
7. Birmingham Vista		 View-Master Reel 2
8. Birmingham Steel Mill
9. Denny Chimes. U. of Alabama
10. Burials, Mound State Park
11. Capitol Building, Night
12. Jefferson Davis' Parlor,Montgomery
13. Booker T. Washington Memorial
14. Monument to Boll Weevil,Enterprise		 View-Master Reel 3
15. Mobile Aerial
16. Richard's House, Mobile
17. Azaleas in Memorial Park
18. U.S.S. Alabama
19. Bellingrath Gardens
20. Grand Hotel, Point Clear
21. Magnolia River Mail Boat