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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Uss Drum(submarine)
Launched on May 12, 1941, this was the first of the Gato-class submarines completed before World War II. It represents what was the standard design for American fleet submarines at the beginning of that war. The USS Drum sank fifteen...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Fort Toulouse Site
Fort Toulouse served as the easternmost outpost of colonial French Louisiana. It was established in 1717 at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers, and was abandoned in 1763, after the Treaty of Paris. Andrew Jackson...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Saturn v Dynamic Test Stand
Built in 1964 to conduct mechanical and vibrational tests on the fully assembled Saturn V rocket; major problems capable of causing failure of the vehicle were discovered and corrected here.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Al: Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed
Constructed in 1898, this is an example of late 19th-century commercial architecture. It served as the focal point of transportation into Montgomery. The train shed is significant in that it shows the adaptation of bridge-building...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Episcopal Church of the Nativity
This Gothic Revival church was built in 1859, and is considered by the National Park Service as one of the most pristine examples of Ecclesiastical Gothic architecture in the South. It is also one of the least-altered structures designed...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Bottle Creek Site
This archaeological site contains eighteen mounds from the Mississippian cultural period. Located on Mound Island within the Mobile-Tensaw river delta, the site was occupied between AD 1250 and 1550. Scholars believe that it functioned...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
This church was used as a meeting place, training center, and as a departure point for marches during the Civil Rights Movement. It was the site of a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan on September 16, 1963, in which four young girls were...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Saturn v Launch Vehicle
This was the prototype for the Saturn V launch vehicle and was the first Saturn V constructed by the Marshall Space Flight Center under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. It served as the test vehicle for the Saturn support...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Henry D. Clayton House
This was the home of anti-trust legislator Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. He was the author of the Clayton Antitrust Act, an act that prohibited particular types of conduct that were deemed to not be in the best interest of a competitive...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Barton Hall
This structure, built in 1840, is described by the National Park Service as an "unusually sophisticated" Greek Revival style plantation house. The interior contains a stairway that ascends in a series of double flights and bridge-like...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Fort Mitchell Site
Fort Mitchell represents three periods of interaction with Native Americans. The first period is the martial aspect of Manifest Destiny, when the Creek Indian Nation was defeated and forced to concede land.; the second represents the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Edmund Pettus Bridge
This bridge across the Alabama River is noted for being the site of a bloody encounter during a civil rights march in 1965, an event influential in the passage of that year's Voting Rights Act.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator
This structure was built in 1955 to provide a simulated zero-gravity environment in which engineers, designers, and astronauts could perform the various phases of research needed to gain firsthand knowledge concerning design and...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Uss Alabama(battleship)
One of two surviving South Dakota-class battleships, Alabama was commissioned in 1942 and spent forty months in active service in World War II's Pacific theater, earning nine battle stars over twenty-six engagements with the Japanese.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: j.l.m. Curry Home
This was the home of educator Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry. He played a large role in the expansion and improvement of the public school system and the establishment of training schools for teachers throughout the South.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Redstone Test Stand
This steel frame structure was built in 1953 and is the oldest static firing facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center. It was important in the development of the Jupiter-C and Mercury/Redstone vehicles that launched the first U.S....
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Ivy Green
This site is where deaf and blind Helen Keller was born and learned to communicate, with the aid of her teacher and constant companion, Anne Sullivan.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
This small Carpenter Gothic church, with wooden buttresses, was built in 1853, and shows the influence of 19th-century architectural leader Richard Upjohn. It is considered one of the Southeast's outstanding examples of the picturesque...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Moundville Site
Moundville was first settled in the 10th century and represents a major period of Mississippian culture in the Southern United States. It acted as the center for a southerly diffusion of this culture toward the Gulf Coast. It was the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: First Confederate Capitol
Delegates from six seceding Southern states met here on February 4, 1861. On February 8, they adopted a "Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America." Jefferson Davis was inaugurated on the west...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Montgomery (Snagboat)
One of the few surviving steam-powered sternwheelers in the United States, it is one of two surviving United States Army Corps of Engineers snagboats. It was built in 1925 and played a major role in building the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Kenworthy Hall
This plantation house was completed in 1860 and is one of the best preserved examples of Richard Upjohn's distinctive asymmetrical Italian villa style. It is the only surviving residential example of Upjohn's Italian villa style that was...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Brown Chapel a.m.e. Church
This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, and it played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The national reaction to Selma's "Bloody Sunday March" is...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Swayne Hall, Talladega College
Swayne Hall was built in 1857 as a Baptist men's college. Following the American Civil War, it became a part of Talladega College, Alabama's oldest private, historically black, liberal arts college.