Seeing Historic Alabama: Fifteen Guided Tours

600 Pages·1996·6.53 MB·English

by  Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton

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
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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