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Alabama, United States
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Mountains, aka North Alabama, is a region at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains known for its abundant natural beauty, including many caves, lakes, and waterfalls.
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Huntsville International Airport (HSV) has direct flights from Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Washington DC, on American; Atlanta and Detroit on Delta; and Chicago, Denver, Houston, and Washington DC on…
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the "chicken stew capital of the world."
Arab (pronounced AY-rab) is a small town in North Alabama.
Guntersville is a town in the mountains of Alabama.
Decatur is a city in Alabama. It is called The Ballooning Capital of Alabama.
home of Belle Cheve Cheese
Florence is a city in northwest Alabama near Mississippi and Tennessee.
Fort Payne - is a small city in the northeast corner of Alabama with a population just under 13,000. It is the county seat and largest city in DeKalb County.
home of Marshall Space Flight Center
Oneonta is a small town in the mountains of Alabama, home to the Covered Bridge Festival. For once it seems the North and South have some commonality, as this Oneonta bears the name after the one in New York.
Scottsboro is in the Mountains region of Alabama and is the seat of Jackson County, having enlivened a railroad mode of commerce there. It is a memorial to a seemingly rare instance where civil rights prevailed in the otherwise rather torn history of equality in this country, in a case known as the Scottsboro Boys.
Helen Keller's home
The Sipsey Wilderness, part of Bankhead National Forest in northwestern Alabama, is the third largest Wilderness area east of the Mississippi River. The wilderness has an abundance of waterfalls, and the color of the water in the streams is opal blue.
Rickwood Caverns State Park preserves a large cave filled with limestone formations, underground pools, and rare blind fish.
The Walls of Jericho is a natural area straddling the Tennessee-Alabama state line.
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