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| Some Towns and Villages in Alabama, USA |
| Alabama is one of the southern states of the USA. The capital is Montgomery and the largest city - by population - Birmingham. The north of the state is mainly mountainous, the south flatter, descending towards the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico where Alabama has its seaport, Mobile (pronounced "Mobeel"). This page contains postcards of towns and villages in the state for which we have as yet insufficient images to justify a separate page. |
| The business district of Birmingham looking south from 5th Ave and 20th Street. |
| Search the internet for more about Alabama, or search this website for your favourite place. |
| This old postcard of Highland Avenue in Birmingham was mailed in 1911. |
| Did You Know.........that there is a large meteor crater at Wetumpka in Alabama ? It is estimated to be about 83 million years old, and is about 7.5 km in diameter. |
| Woolworth's store in Birmingham. |
| And Did You Know.........that Nat King Cole, the singer and pianist, was born in Montgomery in 1919 ? |
| And Did You Also Know.........that Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin (and upset Hitler by his success !) was born in Oakville in Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1913 ? |