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Interesting Data About Alabama

- Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
- The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886.
- Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron and steel. It is also the largest supplier of cast-iron and steel pipe products.
- Montgomery is the capital and the birthplace of the Confederate States of America.
- The Confederate flag was designed and first flown in Alabama in 1861.
- Alabama became the 22nd state on December 14, 1819.
- The town of Enterprise houses the Boll Weevil Monument to acknowledge the role this destructive insect played in encouraging farmers to grow crops other than cotton.
- Baseball player Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron was born in Mobile in 1934.
- Boxer Joe Louis was born in Lexington in 1914. He died in 1981.
- "Alabama" is the official state song.



- Baseball player Willie Howard Mays was born in Westfield in 1931.
- A skeleton of a pre-historic man was found in Russell Cave.
- At 2,405 feet Cheaha Mountain is Alabama's highest point above sea level.
- Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the World.
- The Alabama Department of Archives is the oldest state-funded archival agency in the nation.
- The musical singing group Alabama has a Fan Club and Museum in Fort Payne.
- In 1902 Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound in a young boy's heart. The surgery occurred in Montgomery.
- To help fund education Alabama instituted its state sales tax in 1937.
- Schools established in Mobile include Washington Academy (founded in 1811) and Huntsville Green Academy (founded in 1812).
- Between 1817 and 1819 Old Saint Stephens was the first territorial capital of Alabama.
- In 1956 the Army Ballistic Missile Agency was established at Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal.
- Governor George C. Wallace served four terms in office.
- In 1995 Heather Whitestone serves as first Miss America chosen with a disability.
- Alabama's geographic center is located in Chilton a community located 12 miles southwest of Clanton.
- The word Alabama means tribal town in the Creek Indian language.