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99 unusual facts about Alabama


12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

In February 1865 the regiment was ordered to assist with the siege of Mobile, Alabama, where it was engaged at Spanish Fort, Alabama.

61400 Voxandreae

It is named after Andreae Deman, a planetarium program speaker for the Von Braun Astronomical Society in Huntsville, Alabama.

Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway

A branch uses trackage rights along Norfolk Southern from Kimbrough, Alabama west and south to Mobile, Alabama, with separate trackage at the end of the line in Mobile.

Alabama Public Television

After two years of preparation, it signed on the nation's ninth educational television station, WEDM in Munford, serving Talladega.

Alabama State Route 297

By 1997, $118,590,000, was requested to construct the first portion of the road between Interstates 20/59 in Cottondale and Rice Mine Road including a new Black Warrior River crossing.

Alexander Winchell

He then taught at Pennington Male Seminary of New Jersey, Amenia Seminary of New York (where he had previously been a student), an academy in Newbern, Alabama, and the Mesopotamia Female Seminary of Eutaw, the last of which was founded by him.

Allene Roberts

Allene Roberts (born September 1, 1928) was born in Fairfield Highlands, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.

Andre Royal

Andre Tierre Royal (born December 1, 1972 in Theodore, Alabama) is a former professional football player in the National Football League who played linebacker for five seasons for the Carolina Panthers and the Indianapolis Colts.

Arnold Klebs

Following his work with Osler, he worked as a sanatorium director and tuberculosis specialist in Citronelle, Alabama and Chicago.

Belize Bank

American investors from Mobile, Alabama, incorporated the Bank of British Honduras in 1902, and it commenced operations in 1903.

Brian Webber

Brian Webber (December 19, 1967) is an American actor from Birmingham, Alabama.

Bridge Day

In 1983, Michael Glenn Williams from Birmingham, Alabama, drowned when his gear was caught in the current after he made a successful jump.

Byron Lavoy Cockrell

Byron Cockrell was born on July 3, 1935 to Webster and Willa Cockrell of Lineville, Alabama.

Campbellton, Florida

Joseph Sanders, a former Confederate officer who had switched sides and taken a commission as a lieutenant in the Federal Army, hid out in the swamp for four months during the winter and spring of 1864; he emerged in March of that year to mount an unsuccessful attack on Newton, Alabama, which resulted in the loss of three of his men.

Carol Stream, Illinois

Phil Campbell, Alabama – one of three municipalities in the United States with the first and last name of a person as its name

Ced Landrum

Cedric Bernard Landrum (born September 3, 1963 in Butler, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.

Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society

Data collection required the establishment of a Data Center, initially in Birmingham, Alabama.

Cooper Green Mercy Hospital

It first opened as Mercy Hospital in 1972 and was renamed for former Birmingham mayor Cooper Green three years later.

CWF Tag Team Championship

The NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship was the major tag team title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Alabama territory known as Southeast Championship Wrestling.

Dee Dee Warwick

In October, she cut 10 tracks at Muscle Shoals, again with Crawford producing (along with Brad Shapiro).

Don Hultz

As a teenager, Hultz began playing football at Mobile County High School in Grand Bay, Alabama.

Donald Watkins

Donald V. Watkins (born 1948 - ) of Birmingham, Alabama is an African-American lawyer, banker and international entrepreneur.

E. B. Teague

During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.

Evan Harris Walker

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1964.

Fort Bowyer

Fort Bowyer was a short-lived earthen and stockade fortification that the United States Army erected in 1813 on Mobile Point, near the mouth of Mobile Bay in Baldwin County, Alabama.

Frank Camper

Several newspapers and radio stations reported that he was involved in the Air India bombings in the 1980s, noting that he trained one of the Sikh bombers at his mercenary school headquartered in Dolomite,AKA "The Bunker".

Fyffe

Fyffe, Alabama, a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, in the United States

Gary Winton

A 6'5" forward from Somerville, Alabama, Winton scored a then-school record 2,296 points (later surpassed by Kevin Houston) and grabbed a still-standing school record 1,168 rebounds.

George G. Siebels, Jr.

He served from m 1967 to 1975 and then represented Jefferson County in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990.

Glass–Steagall Legislation

The term Glass–Steagall Act is also often used to refer to the entire Banking Act of 1933, after its Congressional sponsors, Senator Carter Glass (D) of Virginia, and Representative Henry B. Steagall (D) of Alabama.

Gus Mayer

Gus Mayer is a Birmingham, Alabama based, family-owned, upscale specialty department store that caters to upper-end clientele and is known for its high-end fashions.

Henry James Thomas

Although Thomas was injured, and injected with a sense of fear, he participated in a second Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi 10 days later.

Hospital Corporation of America

In April 1998, Birmingham, Alabama-based HealthSouth Corporation announced it was acquiring the majority of HCA's surgical division.

Hubbertville School

Hubbertville School is located in the community of Hubbertville, which itself is situated in Northern Fayette County, Alabama, within the corporate limits of Glen Allen, Alabama.

Ilisha Jarret

Ilisha Keisha Marie Jarrett, born 8 January 1977, in Illinois, USA, is a former professional women basketball player from Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

J.R. Baxter

Baxter grew up in DeKalb County, Alabama, and was a schoolteacher; he married Clarice Howard in 1918.

Jacob Broughton Nelson

In the 1900 census Nelson was listed as the son of Jacob Boone Nelson and Laura Hill Locke Nelson in Summerfield, Alabama.

James Adams Stallworth

Born in Evergreen, Alabama, Stallworth attended Old Field Piney Woods Schools.

James Ervan Parker

Jim Parker is the creator and host of a show at the Von Braun Center Playhouse in Huntsville, Alabama called Jim Parker’s Songwriter Series where he showcases the talent of songwriters from Los Angeles, Canada, Georgia, Nashville, TN, Muscle Shoals, AL, and surrounding areas.

James Zwerg

Three days later, the riders regrouped and headed to Montgomery.

Jim Davenport

James Houston Davenport (born August 17, 1933 in Siluria, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball infielder (mostly third base) who played his entire career with the San Francisco Giants (1958–1970).

Jocelyn Benson

Prior to attending law school, Benson also lived in Montgomery, Alabama, where she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative journalist, researching white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations.

John Fox Slater

The fund has been of great value in aiding industrial schools in the South, its largest beneficiaries being the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Hampton, Virginia, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee, Alabama, Spelman Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, and Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee.

John Moorlach

He received phone calls regarding a looming municipal bond crisis in Jefferson County, Alabama.

K. Lee Scott

Lee Scott (born 1950 in Valley, Alabama) is an internationally known teacher, musician, conductor and composer of sacred music, choral music and hymns, residing in Birmingham, Alabama.

Kate Campbell

In addition to her Americana/Folk flavored albums, her catalog includes the all-acoustic Sing Me Out; Twang on a Wire, which features covers of songs made famous by female country artists of the 1960s and '70s; the piano-based 1000 Pound Machine; and two gospel CDs (Wandering Strange and For the Living of These Days) recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals with Spooner Oldham on keyboards.

Kinetic Communications

Kinetic Communications, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a website and multimedia development company.

KOLD-TV

Gannett had owned the Tucson Citizen since 1977, and FCC regulations of the time forced Gannett to sell KOLD along with KTVY (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama to Knight Ridder Broadcasting after just one day of ownership.

Lake Eufaula

Walter F. George Lake, an artificial lake on the Chattahoochee River between Alabama and Georgia, USA that is also known as Lake Eufaula, from the town of Eufaula, Alabama on its western banks

Larry Taunton

Larry Alex Taunton (born, May 24, 1967) is an American author, columnist, radio talk show host, and cultural commentator based out of Birmingham, Alabama who serves as the Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the public defense of the Christian faith.

Les Whitt

Survivors included his wife of thirty-four years, Lee Ann Whitt, the educational curator of the zoo who is originally from Meadville in Franklin County in southwestern Mississippi; two daughters, Sarah Mathews, later Sarah Salley, and Hanna Lee Whitt, all of Alexandria, and two brothers, James M. Whitt of Natchez and John V. Whitt, Jr., of Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Littleton Prince

Littleton Prince was a white man executed by hanging in 1833 at Pike County, Alabama for having helped a runaway slave.

Mark Potok

Mark Potok is a spokesman and director of publications and information for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, Alabama, a nonprofit organization that arose from the anti-segregation movement to counter extremism and hate crimes.

Mid-Atlantic Freight

23 October 2002 - Mid-Atlantic Freight Cessna 208B Cargomaster I, on a flight between Mobile and Montgomery in Alabama, crashed after an uncontrolled descent into Big Bateau Bay, 8 km from Spanish Fort, Alabama.

Mike Mordecai

Michael Howard Mordecai (born December 13, 1967 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a right-handed hitting/throwing infielder in Major League Baseball who most recently played for the Florida Marlins.

Misery Loves Kompany

Production was mainly handled by David Sanders II, a producer from Huntsville, Alabama; Sanders handled half the production with the rest mainly being handled by Seven (who produced numerous track for Tech N9ne's 2006 effort Everready: The Religion) with lone production credit going to Rob Rebeck for "You Don't Want It."

Moseley Shoals Records

Moseley is an area of Birmingham where the band formed, and they named their recording studio Moseley Shoals in deference to Muscle Shoals Sound recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Mussel Shoals

Mussel Shoals is a misspelling of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Oak Mountain Amphitheatre

Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, formerly known as the Verizon Wireless Music Center, is an outdoor amphitheater, owned by Live Nation, located in Pelham, Alabama, a few miles south of Birmingham.

Oscar Gamble

Born in Ramer, Alabama, Gamble was discovered playing baseball in a semi-professional league by legendary Negro League baseball player Buck O'Neil, who was working as a scout for the Chicago Cubs at the time.

Pelham Civic Center

Pelham Civic Complex is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Pelham, Alabama.

Pete Coachman

Bobby Dean Coachman (born November 11, 1961, in Cottonwood, Alabama) is a retired professional baseball player who played one season for the California Angels of Major League Baseball.

Peter Kellman

When SNCC decided to form local political parties in Alabama independent of the Democratic Party, Kellman was one of the volunteers sent to build the nascent organizations (working in Sumter County, Alabama).

Pop the Trunk

The song's concept revolves around life in Gadsden, Alabama and the environment that the artist grew up in, as Yelawolf is essentially just describing his surroundings and different events he's witnessed.

Pursuit Channel

On cable, it is available on Troy Cablevision in Troy, Alabama and Luverne, Alabama, and on the cable systems that carry its broadcast affiliates.

Rebel Love

The picture was shot on locations in Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama during the summer of 1983, with many scenes filmed at the Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.

Richard Arrington, Jr.

Arrington's father moved his family to the steel-town of Fairfield from rural Sumter County, Alabama when Richard Jr. was five years old to take a job with U.S. Steel.

Richard R. Muller

Dr Richard R. Muller is professor of airpower history within the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at the USAF's Air University in Montgomery, Alabama.

Robert Symonette

Bobby Symonette was the son of Sir Roland Symonette, the first Premier of the Bahama Islands and his second wife, the former Thelma Bell Clepper of Andalusia, Alabama.

Roger Bedford, Jr.

He is married to the former Maudie Darby from Florence, Alabama and they are the parents of one child: Roger, III.

Ronald Brise

Brisé graduated from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, with degrees in Biology and Biology Education.

Rush darter

This fish is currently known from three Alabama river drainages: the Clear Creek drainage in Winston County, some springs in Jefferson County, and Little Cove Creek drainage in Etowah County.

Saks, Inc.

After acquiring Parisian, Proffitt's relocated its corporate headquarters to Birmingham, Alabama from Knoxville in October 1997.

Samuel Dale

General Dale died in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, in 1841, and Dale County, Alabama, has received his name.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman

On his return trip from Texas, he was offered the position of president of Masonic College in Selma, Alabama, which he accepted and held from January to October 1852.

Scott Loftin

Born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; moved to Pensacola, Florida, with his parents in 1887; attended the public schools and Washington and Lee University School of Law at Lexington, Virginia; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Pensacola, Fla.

Sensational Sherri Memorial Cup Tournament

The show was held in honor of American female professional wrestler and manager "Sensational" Sherri Martel who died of an accidental drug overdose at the home of her mother in McCalla, Alabama four months earlier.

Shiloh, Alabama

Shiloh, Marengo County, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States

SLSF 1522

1994: 1522 was one of the locomotives to participate in the 1994 NRHS annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia and did a double-header with Norfolk and Western 611 from Birmingham, Alabama to Atlanta on its way to the convention.

Sportz Blitz

The show focuses on Alabama high school and college sports, specifically Auburn University and the University of Alabama.

Sprot

Sprott, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Perry County, Alabama

Spruce Pine

Spruce Pine, Alabama, a census-designated place in Franklin County, Alabama, United States

STS-26

The VCU was created by SCI Systems in Huntsville, Alabama, and was based on technology licensed from the Votan company.

Sue Ellen Brown

Sue Ellen Brown (born 1954) is an artist living in Birmingham, Alabama.

Sweet Water High School

The late 1920s saw some consolidation of Marengo County schools, with children from former schools in Beaver Creek, Exmoor, and Aimwell moved to Sweet Water.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Alabama

Many of the early missionaries frequently passed between Alabama and Mississippi in their work.

The Statesmen Quartet

Cat Freeman (brother of Vestal Goodman), a native of Fyffe, Alabama was replaced by the great Irish tenor Denver Crumpler.

Tony Shore

Tony Jason Shore (born October 30, 1980 in Huntsville, Alabama) is American musician and actor, best known for appearing as himself in comedy skits on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and playing cop & criminal types on TV crime shows.

Troy Trojans men's basketball

He was inducted into the Wiregrass Sports Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Dothan, Alabama on June 7, 2008.

Undular bore

"A tornado in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1998 that came in contact with an undular bore increased in size and intensity."

Upland South

Knoxville and Huntsville are both centers of industry and scientific research.

US Orbital Segment

The segment is monitored and controlled from various mission control centers around the world including Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Virginia Miller

Virginia (Gi-Gi) Miller-Johnson (born January 12, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama) is a world class heptathlete and former US champion.

Wayne Mixson

Born in New Brockton, Alabama, immediately after graduating from high school he moved to Jackson County, Florida.

WHDF

WOWL-TV always faced competing NBC affiliates in Huntsville or Decatur, whose signals reached much of its broadcast area.

Wildwood Centre

Wildwood Centre was opened on September 29, 1991 to the south of Birmingham, but north of Hoover, Alabama on Lakeshore Drive next to I-65.

WTVR-TV

On January 6, 2009, Raycom and Local TV LLC announced that they would be swapping stations in Richmond and Birmingham.

Youngtown

Youngtown, Alabama, populated place in Lawrence County, Alabama, United States

Zita Szabó

She claimed the bronze medal at the 1991 European Youth Triathlon Championships in Germany, and reached into the international junior level at the 1992 ITU Triathlon World Championships in Huntsville, Alabama.


100th Fighter Squadron

The Alabama ANG contingent, which included nearly twenty fighter pilots and eight F-16s, exercised with approximately 200 Romanian soldiers, technical staff, and pilots flying six Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 "Fishbed" fighters at 71st Air Base, located near the town of Câmpia Turzii in the northwestern part of Romania.

1948 Democratic National Convention

The thirteen members of the Alabama delegation were led out by Leven H. Ellis.

1967–68 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

As sophomores, they would combine with returnees Dave Scholz, Randy Crews, future New York Knicks draft pick Mike Price, Alabama transfer Jodie Harrison, Dennis Pace and walk-on Les Busboom to form the best group Schmidt would ever coach.

1975 Sugar Bowl

After Penn State's Chris Bahr missed a 62-yard field goal, Alabama scored on a 25-yard Danny Ridgeway field goal to take a 3–0 lead.

2003 Auburn Tigers football team

After consecutive losses to Ole Miss, led by Eli Manning, and Georgia, the Tigers concluded a disappointing regular season by defeating arch rival Alabama, 28–23.

4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment participated in the Third Battle of Chattanooga from November 23–27 1863, then was on garrison duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville in Alabama, until June 1864, having Veteranized during the spring of 1864.

Acris gryllus

Subspecies Acris gryllus gryllus is found in the Atlantic Coastal Plain from southeastern Virginia through the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, west to the Mississippi River.

Alabama Crimson Tide football, 1930–39

Other inductees from the 1930 Alabama team include Fred Sington, who went on to play baseball for the Washington Senators, and Frank Howard, who later became famous as the long-time head coach at Clemson University.

Alabama elections, 2004

The 2004 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives, various state and local elections, and the presidential election of that year.

Army of Central Kentucky

The Department No. 2 (Western Department) was created on June 25, 1861, under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, and had military jurisdiction and control over parts of Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Billy Powell

In 2007, two years before his death, Powell played piano on Kid Rock's summer anthem "All Summer Long" (which samples "Sweet Home Alabama").

Bob Vance

Bob Vance (jurist), American jurist who ran for Alabama Supreme Court against Roy Moore in 2012

Bragg-Mitchell Mansion

He was appointed judge to Alabama's 10th Judicial Circuit in 1842, later leaving that post after being elected to the 32nd United States Congress.

Bull Connor

Spike Lee's documentary 4 Little Girls (about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama in 1963) includes footage of Connor and interviews with people describing police brutality under his watch.

Camden Airport

Camden Municipal Airport, an airport located in Camden, Alabama, United States

Charles E. Anderson

Upon finishing, he was stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama where he was assigned as a weather officer for the 332nd Fighter Group now known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

Council of Conservative Citizens

The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina, declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.

CSS Baltic

The Baltic was captured at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on 10 May 1865 and sold on 31 December 1865.

Danny Mayo

Danny "Bear" Mayo (October 2, 1950 - October 2, 1999) was an American songwriter, primarily known for writing country hits for artists such as Alabama, Tracy Byrd, Pirates of the Mississippi and Confederate Railroad.

Ed Packard

On March 14, 2007, the Associated Press reported that a Montgomery County, Alabama, grand jury issued an indictment against Worley that included five felony counts and five misdemeanor counts related to Worley's solicitation of campaign contributions from Secretary of State employees.

Fay Bellamy Powell

After her time in the Air Force, Bellamy moved all over the United States, from Florida to New York City to San Francisco, before settling down in Alabama.

Great Temple of the Aten

Project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya."

Homer Hickam

In 1984, Hickam was presented with Alabama's Distinguished Service Award for heroism shown during a rescue effort of the crew and passengers of a sunken paddleboat in the Tennessee River.

James T. Holtzclaw

In January 1865, he was assigned command of a division comprising his brigade and that of Mathew Ector in the Department of the Gulf and the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and Eastern Louisiana.

K. M. Cherian

He worked as a Special Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in Birmingham, Alabama under John W. Kirklin and in the University of Oregon under Albert Starr.

Loveman's

Loveman's of Alabama, a Birmingham, Alabama-based chain of department stores with locations across Alabama

Mike Shula

Despite a catastrophic leg injury suffered by star wide receiver Tyrone Prothro, Alabama went 10–2 with a victory in the 2006 Cotton Bowl Classic over the Mike Leach-led Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor

Baylor was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831) from Alabama's 2nd congressional district and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress.

Scott Beason

In 1998, won the primary runoff in Alabama's House District 51 against State Representative Jim Townsend with 53% of the vote.

Sequatchie Valley

The Sequatchie River drains the valley in Tennessee, flowing south to southwest from the southern part of Cumberland County, Tennessee to the Tennessee River near the Alabama border.

Simon Haley

Simon Haley held positions at various southern universities including Alabama A&M just north of Huntsville, Alabama.

T. D. Little

He ran for Alabama's 3rd congressional district for United States House of Representatives in 1996 after Glen Browder retired but lost to Bob Riley (R).

The Long Walk Home

Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced by students at the University of Southern California in 1988.

Wayne Sowell

Wayne Sowell was the Democratic candidate for Alabama in the United States Senate election of 2004.

WCNF

Weekend programming includes talk shows hosted by Dennis Prager, Steve Gill, and Hugh Hewitt, plus Outdoors with Alan Warren and Viewpoint Alabama.

William Nichols

William Flynt Nichols (1918–1988), Democratic member of United States House of Representatives for the state of Alabama

WJOX

WJOX-FM, a radio station (94.5 FM) in Birmingham, Alabama, United States

WOOF

WOOF-FM, a radio station (99.7 FM) licensed to Dothan, Alabama, United States

WRRS

WYDE-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Cullman, Alabama, United States, which used the call sign WRRS from November 1998 to July 2002

WWWH

WWWH-FM, a radio station (92.7 FM) licensed to Haleyville, Alabama, United States