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Hosts a variety of events.
The Bessemer Civic Center is a performing arts and convention center located in Bessemer, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb. The Civic Center's main hall features 13,000 square feet (1,200 m2) of main space. A mezzanine measuring 4,415 square feet (410 m2) overlooks the main hall and can be used for additional seating for events as well as dancing and banquets. The main hall features a 45-by-37-foot permanent stage. When used for concerts, boxing, or wrestling, the Civic Center can seat up to 2,000 ; as a banquet facility the main hall seats 1,000. Conventions and trade shows are also held at the main hall.
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Right on the outskirts of Birmingham is Alabama Splash Adventure. Formerly known as VisionLand, this adventure consists of both a theme park and a waterpark for those hot summer days. Alabama Splash Adventure has over 7 acres of land filled with over 25 main attractions, including Alabama's largest wooden roller coaster.
Small local history museum located in a former train station. Includes an exhibit on the Civil Rights movement exhibit, including a jail cell door from the cell where Martin Luther King Jr. was held in Bessemer.
Historical park just outside Bessemer that takes visitors back in time to the turn of the century when central Alabama was the iron capital of the south. Here there are great numbers of deer roaming about, several rivers, creeks and a bubbling spring, a fully functioning corn mill (with fresh corn meal available to purchase seasonly) and the remains of an iron factory. Museum, full hookup RV and tent camping and primitive camping. 'Tannehill Tradedays' occur the third Saturday of every month, March through November. Lots of backwoods hiking and walking trails. A hidden gem of a park in exchange for a 25-minute drive from downtown.