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Alabama, United States
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By air
Birmingham International Airport in Birmingham serves Metropolitan Alabama.
By train
Amtrak's Crescent line has daily stops in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Anniston.
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the largest city in Alabama
Anniston is a town of 22,000 people (2018) on the slope of the Blue Mountain in Alabama. It has several historic sites from the civil rights campaign of the 1960s.
site of much of Alabama's 20th-century steel industry; in decline since the 1960s
Childersburg is a small town in Metropolitan Alabama near the Desoto Caverns and the Talladega Raceway.
Clanton is a small town in Metropolitan Alabama near Lay Lake and the Confederate Memorial Park, with close ties to peaches.
Eutaw is a city in Greene County, Alabama.
Noccalula Falls and Lookout Mountain
Heflin is the county seat of Cleburne County. It is on Interstate 20, approximately half-way between Birmingham and Atlanta.
a suburb south of Birmingham; home of Samford University
another Birmingham suburb
Jacksonville is a small college town in Metropolitan Alabama.
Pelham is a city in Alabama.
Sylacauga is a town in Metropolitan Alabama. It is famed for its high quality white marble that has been widely used in major edifices like the Supreme Court and the Washington Monument in D.C., as well as for being the home of Jim Nabors (you might know him as Gomer Pyle).
home to The University of Alabama, former state capital, Mercedes Benz USI, several museums, and Dreamland BBQ
In the spring of 1814, General Andrew Jackson and an army of 3,300 men attacked 1,000 Upper Creek warriors on the Tallapoosa River. Over 800 Upper Creeks died defending their homeland.
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