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Seeing Historic Alabama : Fifteen Guided title: Tours Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer.; Matte, author: Jacqueline Anderson. publisher: University of Alabama Press isbn10 | asin: 0817307907 print isbn13: 9780817307905 ebook isbn13: 9780585266213 language: English Historic sites--Alabama--Guidebooks, subject Historical museums--Alabama-- Guidebooks, Alabama--Tours. publication date: 1996 lcc: F327.H35 1996eb ddc: 917.6104/63 Historic sites--Alabama--Guidebooks, subject: Historical museums--Alabama-- Guidebooks, Alabama--Tours. Page i Seeing Historic Alabama Page ii Page iii Seeing Historic Alabama Fifteen Guided Tours NEW EDITION Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton & Jacqueline A. Matte Page iv Copyright © 1996 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Cover and interior designed by Erin Toppin Bradley ¥ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48- 1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Matte, Jacqueline A. Seeing Historic Alabama : fifteen guided tours / Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton & Jacqueline A. Matte. Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8173-0790-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Historic sitesAlabamaGuidebooks. 2. Historical museumsAlabamaGuidebooks. 3. AlabamaTours. I. Matte, Jacqueline Anderson. II. Title. F327.H35 1996 917.6104'63dc20 95-50431 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available On Frontispiece Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma On p. xii Exhibit at Pike Pioneer Museum, Troy On Front Cover CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery (Courtesy of Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel) Black Belt Slave Cabin (Photograph by Lowell S. Hamilton) U.S. Space and Rocket Center (Courtesy of Alabama Bureau of Toursim and Travel) Kirkwood, Eutaw (Courtesy of Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel) Page v Contents Preface vii Preface to 1982 Edition ix Using This Guide xiii Tour 1 1 Eastern Tennessee Valley Tour 2 23 Western Tennessee Valley Tour 3 37 Appalachian Alabama Tour 4 49 Blount County Covered Bridges Tour 5 53 Near Interstate 65 Part One: 54 North of Birmingham Part Two: 59 Between Birmingham and Montgomery Part Three: 61 Between Montgomery and Mobile Tour 6 67 Birmingham Tour 7 81 Northwest Alabama Tour 8 89 West Central Alabama Tour 9 105 East Central Alabama Tour 10 127 Montgomery Page vi Tour 11 139 Western Black Belt Tour 12 173 South Central Alabama Tour 13 187 Eufaula and the Wiregrass Tour 14 201 Baldwin County Tour 15 215 In and around Mobile Glossary of Architectural Terms 235 Appendixes 239 1. House Museums 239 2. Museums 240 3. Covered Bridges 242 4. Historical Festivals 242 5. Historical Dramatic Productions 242 6. Home Tours and Pilgrimages 243 Credits 245 Index 247
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