Town of the Week

Montgomery, Alabama
December 18, 1999

This town is both the capital of the Confederacy and the birthplace of civil rights. Montgomery, Alabama has always provided fertile ground for growth and change, beginning with steamboats chugging into port on the Alabama River. The river still defines the development of downtown Montgomery. The cotton industry boomed along the river front, and is depicted in displays found in the Alabama Archives and History Museum.

The 150 year old State Capitol has undergone recent renovation, and is a popular tourist spot, along with the Civil Rights Memorial and the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church. You can see how people lived a century ago by visiting the three blocks of houses that make up Old Alabama Town, and visit the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

There is a lifesize statue of Hank Williams across from City Hall, and a memorial at his burial place in Oakwood Cemetery. The Rosa Parks Library and Museum, celebrating the mother of the civil rights movement is to be finished next year, built on the site where she boarded the bus on which she refused to yield her seat. The community is a southern belle, and a city slicker, wrapped up in small-town charm, and its our Town of the Week, Montgomery, Alabama.

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